Inventing America: 1492-1992

As I flew over the Andes mountains and into Santiago last July, I heard the high-pitched, excited voices of several ...

FINE WORDS AND PRETTY CEREMONIES ARE about to descend upon us: The five-hundredth anni- versary of the so-called Discovery is ...

First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 ed. by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, ...

Five hundred years ago, through the mountains of what today are Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, merchant caravans with hundreds ...

Historian Alberto Flores Galindo, one of Peru’s most gifted left intellectuals, died of cancer in March of last year at ...

Our memory is like a broken mirror. It does not reflect the world as it was, but our fragmented, partial, ...

THE BLACK AND THE ROSE-COLORED LEGENDS -two extremes that leave us outside of history, out- side of reality. These interpretations ...

The discovery of America completely revolutionized the European imagination. Here, to their astonishment, the Europeans found -- or thought they ...