South America was the final stop on humanity’s world tour, and wasn’t settled until tens of millennia after we’d established ourselves on every other continent (apart from Antarctica, of course). Yet ...
South America, a continent rich with vibrant cultures, ancient history, and stunning landscapes, is also home to some of the world’s most mystical and enigmatic locations. These places, steeped in ...
When I visited Oxapampa and Pozuzo in central Peru, I was fascinated by the region’s enduring ties to a surprising motherland—Germany. These beautiful twin towns were founded in the mid-1800s by a ...
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 ...
Latin and South American history spans the prodigious civilisations of the pre-Columbian era, through Iberian conquest and colonial rule, to the republican and modern nation-state period. In the ...