Trump’s re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine and attack on Venezuela are the latest in a long series of US interventions in ...

From the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 to the intervention in Venezuela, Washington has dominated the American continent by force ...

Central America and the Caribbean: In the early twentieth century, US marines and naval forces took part in the so-called Banana Wars, occupying or intervening in countries such as Nicaragua, Haiti, ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...

Pt. 1: Foregrounds and backgrounds: This land, this people -- The Indian background -- The Iberian background -- The African background -- Pt. 2: The Iberians in the new world: Discovery and conquest ...

Latin Americans want the U.S. public to understand, and grapple with, this history.

Historian Alexander Avina joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the modern history of Latin America. Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...