Inventing America: 1492-1992

US. Troops occupied four towns on the Panamanian border with Costa Rica on January 14, a few days before death

We are soon to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of a momentous event that some people still call "the discovery of

When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin

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

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

The history of America begins with a clash of two cultures that were not merely dissimilar, but incompatible: The values

The Town That Raised Its Head Although news of army human rights violations in Guatemala raises few eyebrows anymore, the