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catherinekerrigan.bsky.social
Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy during independence: Infiltrated Spanish royalists, gathered intelligence, never broke under torture. Executed at 22. National hero. #LatinAmericanHistory
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
medinternational.bsky.social
Meet Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Abraham Trejo Terreros

Abraham investigates how medical knowledge moved across Latin America via Pan-American networks, shaping policies in Mexico and beyond during the 20th C.

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#HistMed #LatinAmericanHistory #HistSci #GlobalHealth
Abraham Trejo Terreros
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September 25, 2026 at 2:52 AM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
¡Fuap!! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #LatinAmericanHistory #CaribbeanHistory #HispaniolaHistory #TheDominicanRepublic #AmericanHistory #DominicanHistory #ColdWar #HistBookChat
June 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
mbzepedacortes.bsky.social
Taylor&Francis has made my article #OpenAccess for the summer 🏖️ 😎 🌴 🍹 Enjoy the reading! #18cstudies #enlightenment #bookhistory #blueskystorians #JosédeGálvez #latinamericanhistory #historyofspain thank you T&F! 🙏🏽
June 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
📚✨ Explore the Legacy of Simón Bolívar ✨📚

#SimónBolívar #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #Philately #HistoricalFiction #LatinAmericanHistory
December 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM
routledgehistory.bsky.social
Looking forward to #AHA26 this week! If you have any student facing #AmericanHistory or #LatinAmericanHistory projects you would like to discuss, our Editor Kimberley Smith has a few meeting slots left! Contact kimberley.smith@tandf.co.uk to talk!
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
boricuabc2.bsky.social
Perceived cultural contamination drives exclusion.
@boricuabc2.bsky.social 

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/S8WWNZT_yOY

#CulturalPower #LatinAmericanHistory #LanguageAndBelonging #MAGARealities #SystemicExclusion #HarvardScholarship #LatinoNarratives #BoricuaBC2
January 27, 2026 at 1:04 PM
lratkinson.bsky.social
#The52BookClub
#52BookClub
#3stars
#2025readingchallenge
#prompt15
#LatinAmericanHistory
#nonfiction
#Indigenous
#BookSky💙📚
Not a book that you can breeze through. Didn't think I'd ever finish it.
February 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
No me digas - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #VenezualanHistory #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #PostColdWarHistory #PostColonialHistory #CoupDEtat #HistoryBookChat
December 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM
lenaevans.bsky.social
Current read. @AditaFerrer #Cuba
#PulitzerPrize
#CubanHistory #LatinAmericanHistory
What #book are YOU reading?
January 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
perurealfonso.bsky.social
La semana que viene estaré en Barcelona hablando de libros hebreos en la América Latina colonial. El congreso se retransmite: youtube.com/@FBiDUB/stre... y las sesiones quedarán grabadas: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BookHistory #LatinAmericanHistory #HistoriaIndiana #HebrewBooks
Portada del congreso sobre libros en la América Latina colonial que tendrá lugar en Barcelona en la primera semana de diciembre.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
No me digas - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #LatinAmericanHistory #BetweenTheWars #1930sHistory #BrazilianHistory #ArgentinianHistory #ColombianHistory #HistoryBookChat
October 30, 2024 at 11:48 AM
ubuffalohistory.bsky.social
Very proud of our own @ubuffalo.bsky.social Hal Langfur, whose book Adrift on an Inland Sea continues to receive acclaim -- this time as the co-winner of The Warren Dean Memorial Book Prize (2024), awarded by the Conference on Latin American History. #LatinAmericanHistory
November 18, 2024 at 1:07 AM
ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social
More good news from The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH): Big congrats to Martine Jean, who has received an Honorable Mention for the Bolton-John Prize for her book, Policing Freedom: Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil! #LatinAmericanHistory
November 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Me estas cargando - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #ArgentinianHistory #LatinAmericanHistory #ColdWarHistory #Communism #Peron #ERP #Montoneros #Coup #Junta #DirtyWar #WargameResearch #HistoryBookChat
May 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
sophiamoreau.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge
#Guatemala #coupd’état #CIA #LatinAmericanHistory #JacoboArbenz
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 PM
upcolorado.bsky.social
A deep dive into the #Nicaraguanrevolution and the #youthculture surrounding it, Insurgent Youth provides a unique look at modern #LatinAmericanhistory. 40% off this week with promo code BARB26: tinyurl.com/uxkcsw2y
#Sandinista #FSLN #Nicaragua #revolution #studentmovement #academicsky #booksky
“A first and fresh contribution in the construction of a new look at the Central American revolutionary movements. . . . the book joins an emerging stream of works that are addressing the flows of symbolic and material interaction between the revolutionary movements of different latitudes.” —Alberto Martín Alvarez, Universitat de Girona
September 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
Also found this Reacting to the Past game to be a pretty amazing game to run: reactingconsortium.org/games/argent... #reacting #latinamericanhistory #historicalmemory
The Reacting Consortium - Argentina, 1985
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
khowaga.bsky.social
#LatinAmericanHistory folks:

Looking for articles/chapters on various stages of women’s history since 1492 in English and Spanish for upper div undergrads—for US and Latin America (or specific sections thereof).

Names of prominent authors too!

#Historian #HistorySky #AcademicSky
November 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
nextgreatread.bsky.social
“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”

#BookSky #Books #LatinAmericanHistory #PoliticalEconomics #Capitalism
“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.” — from Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen
September 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
genderandhistory.bsky.social
Christine R. Johnson uses two early sixteenth-century texts by German men about travel to Venezuela to show how conquest colonialism was connected to, but insufficient for, the achievement of honorable masculinity.
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#Skyhistorians #LatinAmericanHistory
There's No Place Like Home: Masculine Honor and the Conquest of Venezuela
The association between masculinity and European imperialism is well established. Two texts by German men about travel to Venezuela in the early sixteenth century show how conquest colonialism was co...
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September 4, 2026 at 10:44 AM
pariasans.bsky.social
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes historian #GregGrandin to talk about his latest book, #AmericaAmérica: A New #History of the New World

#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books
America: What's In A Name?
YouTube video by Letters and Politics
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April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
herstorical1.bsky.social
Audio version of Eliza's story here:

youtu.be/a2xRRCzfORE?...

#blogger #elizalynch #paraguay #paraguayanhistory #latinamericanhistory #history #herstory #womenshistory
August 17, 2025
YouTube video by Herstorical Tours®
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August 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
jms-esq.bsky.social
"Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation."

#latinamericanhistory #imperialism #literature

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pill…
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brill…
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January 12, 2026 at 12:14 AM
utexaspress.bsky.social

CHILD MARTYRS releases on April 8, but you can preorder a copy today, or ask your local indie bookstore to stock it!

#ReadUP #NewSpain #LatinAmericanStudies #LatinAmericanHistory

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Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain
Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico. A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of N...
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March 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM