Articles with keyword "South America"
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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Letters Home
From Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters, a volume by the editors of the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, which has been supported by NEH.
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Darwin the Young Adventurer
The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.
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Survival of the Luckless
Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s 1599 Indian Militia was called by historian Geoffrey Parker the “first manual of guerrilla warfare ever published.” Thomas Jefferson kept a copy on his bo
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The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
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Mexic-Arte Museum
Cortez’s conquest of the Aztecs, the Seven Deadly Sins, and Mexican Independence are among the many themes of the masked dances of the Nahua Indians of central Mexico.
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First, Count to Ten...In Pescadora
Archaeologists from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum working in Peru have unearthed a piece of paper used in the early seventeenth century by a Spanish priest to conduct an interview and record num