Tools for exploring colonial institutions, revolutionary movements, land reform, and indigenous sovereignty in Latin America — drawn from H-Net H-LatAm and UT Austin curricula.
Pick a colonial institution and trace how it shaped labor, racial hierarchy, and land tenure — from Spanish conquest through independence and into the 19th century.
Pick a 20th-century Latin American revolution and compare the structural causes, the revolutionary ideology, the outcome, and the US government response — from covert operations to open intervention.
Pick a land reform effort and trace the agrarian redistribution: who organized for it, who resisted (landlords, US corporations, the CIA), and what the political aftermath produced.
Read about a historical atrocity — La Matanza, the Guatemalan genocide, the dirty wars — and trace how it was suppressed from official memory, how survivors preserved it, and how it eventually entered public reckoning.
Pick a region and trace indigenous resistance to colonial and postcolonial states — from the encomienda system and colonial rebellions through independence-era dispossession to 20th-century sovereignty movements.
