This video provides a brief history of Latin American Liberation Theology and explains why the Vatican condemned it.
The objective of this proposed program of study is to illustrate to students the similarities and differences between the history of North America and Latin America.
Contrary to what is portrayed in the media, being Latin American can consist of and look like many things. The goal of this unit is to help students understand the connections between colonialism and the ethnic demographics of Latin America.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
This resource includes a database of Trans-Atlantic slaving voyages searchable by a wide range of variables in additional to essays, maps, and numerical estimates of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and K-12 lesson plans.
How did the Monroe Doctrine become the justification for American interventions in Latin America? Who is the legitimate president of Venezuela: Maduro or Guaido?