History did not unfold the way modern textbooks tell it. Long before Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531, Mexico was ruled ...

Tepeyac in Mexico City each year, which is home to not one, but two basilicas dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Clash of Empires. For the first time, the Dark Knight steps outside the traditional no-kill rule, and the context behind it reveals why this version of Batman operates so differently. This Elseworlds ...

In 1487–just five years before Columbus sailed and a few decades before Luther’s revolt against the Old Faith–two worlds were ...

For most of human history, chocolate existed only in a small corner of the world, in a form that would be all but ...

New and Post-New Left movements in the region show how historical critique can coexist with political imagination.

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Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires is a Spanish adult animated flick that hit the theatres in September in the US. The movie is inspired by the DC comic character, Batman. The story follows a young Aztec ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an Aztec palace complex in the heart of Mexico City. The recently unearthed palace complex in the capital of Mexico was built for an Aztec emperor but was also ...

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries AD. He is best remembered for his expedition against the Aztec Empire centered in Mexico. This was part of the ...

Areli Ortiz, technical deputy director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, points to depictions on fabric of La Malinche and Hernan Cortes from a facsimile of part of the 16th ...