The consolidation and expansion of the public health programs in Mexico during the course of the first half of the twentieth century was possible due to the work of numerous women in the different branches of nursing: as ...

This article offers an overview of multiple strategies that can be considered as resistance. It contemplates different kinds of actions: from violent uprisings to daily practices that disrupted the colonial domination along ...

This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old ...

This interview with Deisy Ventura, professor at the Faculty of Public Health of the Universidade de São Paulo, discusses the political dimension of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. She has become a leading reference on the ...

Entre los libros pictográficos amoxtli que expresan en imágenes la conquista de México-Tenochtitlan, el Codex Vaticanus A o Codex Vaticano Ríos es sin duda el códice cuya iconografía es la más rica en detalles. En dos ...

This research identifies, provides biographical notes, and renders the family reconstruction (ascending and descending genealogy) of the knights of the Military Order of Alcántara, who were present in the viceroyalty ...

El presente texto ofrece un panorama general de la creciente comunidad de blogs dedicados a la historia en el ámbito hispanoamericano. A través de un análisis de dos agregadores de blogs especializados, Planeta Historia y ...

Having as a framework the tragic presence of covid-19, historians from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil reflect in this text on the context of the pandemic as well as its relationship with institutional sanitary precariousness, ...

The article on the fate of a commercial directory from 1899 highlights how it has captured the interest of 21st-century historians and cartographers. This interest extends beyond the data the directory reveals about the ...

This article analyses the different forms of procuration that existed in the Hispanic Monarchy during the 16th Century and presents a typology for its study. The authors propose to distinguish two types of procurators: ...