The legend of La Llorona has supposedly haunted Mexico since before the Conquest. The wailing woman’s story is one of violence, much like the country whose suffering she is often taken to represent. Beware the woman in white ...
Kate Wiles provides context for the first European image of the Aztec capital, razed by the Spanish in 1521.
Hidden beneath a hill in Cholula, Mexico lies the biggest pyramid ever built.
Amy Fuller looks at the life of the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and asks why we feel the need to kill our heroines rather than celebrate their achievements.
The man born Lev Bronstein was attacked on August 20th, 1940. He died the following day.
Beyond the stereotypes of bloodthirsty savagery and false predictions of Armageddon.
Maximilian of Austria acceded to the imperial throne of Mexico on June 12th, 1864.
In 1836, after a short but violent struggle, conspicuously mismanaged on both sides, Texas wrested its independence from Mexico, which had itself secured its independence from Spain only fifteen years earlier.
John M. Coleman draws a distinction betweent the Thirteen Colonies and the rest of North America.
Before the extension of the railways, writes Louis C. Kleber, long cattle-drives were the way of life west of the Mississippi.
