This article examines the multiple actors and varied strategies that contributed to turn smallpox vaccination into a central – albeit inconsistent – practice in Mexico City between 1803, when the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine ...

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 ...