Saving Mexico from the Devil
The Conquest of Mexico was justified by the Spanish as an evil necessary to save a people who practised human sacrifice and worshipped false gods.
Mexico
The Origin of La Llarona
The legend of La Llorona has supposedly haunted Mexico since before the Conquest. The wailing woman’s story is one of violence, much like the country whose suffering she is often taken to represent. Beware the woman in white ...
The Map: Tenochtitlan, 1524
Kate Wiles provides context for the first European image of the Aztec capital, razed by the Spanish in 1521.
The Largest Pyramid in the World
Hidden beneath a hill in Cholula, Mexico lies the biggest pyramid ever built.
A Mexican Martyr
Amy Fuller looks at the life of the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and asks why we feel the need to kill our heroines rather than celebrate their achievements.
Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico
The man born Lev Bronstein was attacked on August 20th, 1940. He died the following day.
Mayas: Revelation of an Endless Time
Beyond the stereotypes of bloodthirsty savagery and false predictions of Armageddon.
The Emperor Maximilian arrives in Mexico City
Maximilian of Austria acceded to the imperial throne of Mexico on June 12th, 1864.
The Texan War of 1835-1836
In 1836, after a short but violent struggle, conspicuously mismanaged on both sides, Texas wrested its independence from Mexico, which had itself secured its independence from Spain only fifteen years earlier.
How ‘Continental’ was the Continental Congress?
John M. Coleman draws a distinction betweent the Thirteen Colonies and the rest of North America.