Post Colonial Americas

The legend of the Hero of the Two Worlds was forged not on the battlefields of Europe, but in the guerrilla skirmishes of South America.

To white Northerners in the mid-nineteenth century, the sheer eloquence of the man speaking from the podium seemed like an impossibility.

A heavy metal weight, thrown by an angry overseer at another enslaved person, struck the young Araminta Ross in the head instead, fracturing her skull.

To jump from an airplane into the empty sky is to invoke a name born of resistance.

To understand the weight of Sitting Bull’s presence, one must look to the weeks before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, when the Hunkpapa Lakota leader experienced a vision of soldiers falling upside down into his camp…

The bloodlines of the southern plains met in Quanah Parker, a man born around 1850 to a Kwahadi Comanche chief and an Anglo-American woman captured as a child and fully assimilated into the tribe.

The boy born into the Oglala Lakota band in the early 1840s did not look like the others; his hair was notably lighter than the near-universal black hair of his people, earning him the childhood nickname Zizi, or Light…

The sugarcane fields of Morelos were fertile ground for a revolution.

The political heir of Mahatma Gandhi was not formed in the villages of India, but in the elite institutions of England.

An eighteen-year-old student, once destined for medical school, lay shattered in Coyoacán after a devastating bus accident left her with a lifetime of physical agony.

In the autumn of 1910, there was little indication that Mexico stood on the precipice of a decade-long conflagration that would claim roughly one million lives.

The global order of the late twentieth century was defined by a war that never officially broke out.