The Americas

New: an interview with Daniel James, a leading historian of the Argentine working class and Peronism. He reflects on the experiences and influences that shaped his scholarship, as well as his approach to oral history and mentorship. Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Una reseña de mi estudio sobre los indultos en la independencia aparece en este número de The Americas, de la gentil pluma de @angelalmarza. ¡Muchas gracias!

Our latest issue (82:2) is now online! Highlights include an interdisciplinary examination of a rare 16th-century manuscript lectionary containing Nahuatl translations of Biblical texts by Barbara E. Mundy, Ben Leeming & Mary Elizabeth Haude. Explore more: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Drawing on Inquisition records, Sommer “contends that Indigenous exogamous practices were key to historical interaction, exchange, and social development in the Brazilian North.” 🗺️Map by the author, ca. 1750, illustrating key rivers, towns, and missions.

We're excited to highlight new work from The Americas editorial board member Barbara A. Sommer. Her new article in Ethnohistory centers Indigenous women’s central role in 18th-century interethnic alliances in northwestern Amazonia. bit.ly/3XvXIf6

By tracing two early attempts at agricultural privatization, Colàs shows how these reforms revealed both the ambitions and the limits of state power in the Andes. 📚 Read “Between Communal, Emphyteutic, and Private Property”: bit.ly/3WAwALA

New Open Access Article: Between Communal, Emphyteutic, and Private Property by Pol Colàs 🌾 In nineteenth-century Bolivia, liberal reformers tried to transform Indigenous communal lands into private property.

@clahistorians 🏅 Honorable Mention: @tknoll209k “‘In the Name of the God of All Names’: Yahweh, Obatalá, Olorum” 📖 Read here: bit.ly/4cxPLg0 Congratulations to both authors for their outstanding contributions to The Americas!

@clahistorians 🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra “The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)” 📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 Tibesar Prize for the best article published in The Americas! 🏆 Awarded in cooperation with the @clahistorians, the prize recognizes exceptional scholarship ⬇️

@schwallr He also served in various roles on the editorial board of The Americas, most recently as a long-term senior editor on the Advisory Board. 🔗 Read the full obituary here: bit.ly/3Ku4m2g

New: @schwallr remembers Fr. Francisco Morales Valerio (1937–2024), a towering figure in the study of colonial Mexico and the Franciscan order. His path took him to Washington, DC and Rome before returning to Puebla, where he founded the Biblioteca Franciscana in Cholula.

@schwallr As of July 2025, Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (@MIvonneWF) becomes Senior Editor of The Americas ✨ We are deeply grateful to Fritz for his service and warmly welcome Ivonne as she begins her tenure.

@schwallr Fritz’s scholarship has also enriched our pages, including his 2025 note on Franciscan content in The Americas [🔓 bit.ly/3GK3sgc], his 2017 article on Fr. Agustín de Vetancurt [🔓bit.ly/4pt9Mul] & and numerous book reviews reflecting his broad expertise.

The Americas thanks John “Fritz” Schwaller (@schwallr) for his years of service as Senior Editor 👏 Over the past 5 years, he guided the journal through key transitions in publishing & helped maintain its reputation as a premier venue for Latin American history.

El #12deseptiembre se estableció como #DíadelHistoriador y la #Historiadora en conmemoración por la fundación de la Academia Mexicana de Historia en 1919. Felicitamos a quienes estudian, enseñan, interpretan, investigan, difunden y preservan el pasado y la memoria. ⌛

In her review essay, Christy Thornton asks what these histories can teach us about the possibilities and limits of internationalism today. 📖 Read the full review: bit.ly/4mX5pFW

📚 Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans 📚 Christina Heatherton, Arise! 📚 Dan La Botz, Riding with the Revolution Each book rethinks histories of cross-border radicalism and the legacies of the Mexican Revolution.

🌎 “How can the lessons of past struggle inform movements for political change today?” This question sits at the heart of three recent books on the Mexican Revolution, reviewed by @llchristyll in The Americas.

🎧 Listen: hagley.org/research/histo…

🚢 Who built the ships & charted the routes that powered Spain’s Pacific empire? In a new episode of @hagleymuseum History Hangout, historian Leo Garofalo—former Associate Editor of The Americas—discusses Afro-Andean sailors and shipbuilders in Spanish Peru.