Chapter I: Independence

The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy: Cortes of Cádiz (1812)
War to the Death: Simón Bolívar (1812)
The Vision of Father Morelos: Enrique Krauze (1994)
Families in War and Peace: Sarah C. Chambers (2015)
Brazil's Constitutional Monarchy: Emília Viotti da Costa (2000)
Visual Source: Native Americans Embrace a Symbol of Spanish Monarchy (1809)


Chapter II: Slavery and Freedom

Slavery in Latin America and the United States: Frank Tannenbaum (1946)
Black Wet Nurses in Brazil: Robert Edgar Conrad (1821-1863)
Gradual Emancipation: Yesenia Barragan (2021)
Letters in Favor of Brazilian Slavery: José de Alencar (1867-1868)
Abolitionism in Brazil: Joaquim Nabuco (1883)
Visual Source: Homage to Princess Isabel (1888)


Chapter III: Caudillos

Caudillos as Scourge: Charles E. Chapman (1932)
Caudillos as Profit Maximizers: Eric R. Wolf and Edward C. Hansen (1967)
Caudillos as Culture Heroes: Ariel de la Fuente (2000)
The Ribbons and Rituals of Rosismo: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1845)
Women in the Age of Caudillos: Frances Calderón de la Barca (1843)
Visual Source: Defeat of the Caudillos (1863)


Chapter IV: Liberalism and Citizenship

Good Catholic Reading for Ladies: Carolina Cherniavsky Bozzolo (2014)
Generational Warrior: Francisco Bilbao (1844)
The Triumph of Reform: Justo Sierra (1900-1902)
Indigenous People and the Liberal Project: Brook Larson (2004)
Afro-Nicaraguan Soldiers and Statesmen: Justin Wolfe (2010)
Visual Source: Portrait of Benito Juarez (1865)
Visual Source: The Balance of Power in Imperial Brazil (1865)


Chapter V: Race and Nation Building

Neocolonial Ideologies: E. Bradford Burns (1980)
Civilization versus Barbarism: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1845)
Brazilianization: Aluísio Azevedo (1890)
A Raceless Nation: Ada Ferrer (1999)
Big Brother, Little Nation: Lorgia García Peña (2016)
Visual Source: Benevolent Paternalism (1898)
Visual Source: Ham's Redemption (1895)

Chapter VI: Nationalism

Our America: José Martí (1891)
Education and the Mexican Revolution: Octavio Paz (1950)
Mestizo Pride: Gilberto Freyre (1933)
Carmen Miranda and Brasilidade: Darién J. Davis (2012)
Panama in Black: Kaysha Corinealdi (2022)
Visual Source: Peru of the Incas (c. 1938)


Chapter VII: Populism

The Peronist Political Vision: Daniel James (1988)
First Lady's Peronist Feminism: Eva Perón (1953)
“I Gave You my Life, Now I Offer You My Death”: Getúlio Vargas (1954)
Cardenismo and Women's Organizing: Jocelyn Olcott (2005)
Trujillo, the Benefactor: Lauren Derby (2009)
Visual Source: Haya de La Torre Speaks to the Peasants (1931)


Chapter VIII: Social Revolution

Essence of Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevara (1961)
Cuba's Revolutionary Literacy Campaign: Devyn Spence Benson (2016)
The Chilean Road to Socialism: Salvador Allende (1973)
Christianity and Revolution: Margaret Randall (1983)
Reflections on Life as a Colombian Revolutionary: María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo (2005)
Visual Source: Mafalda, the Inquisitive Girl (1968)


Chapter IX: The Cold War

Statements of U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine: Presidents James Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman (1823, 1904, 1946)
The Shark and the Sardines: Juan José Arévalo (1956)
The 1964 Scare Campaign: Margaret Power (2008)
Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: Church Committee (1975)
A Search and Destroy Operation in El Salvador: Mark Danner (1994)
Visual Source: Alliance for Progress and Barrio Kennedy (1961)


Chapter X: Dictatorships

Conservative Women Celebrate the Chilean Coup: María Correa Morandé (1974)
Testimony of a Perpetrator: Rodolfo Peregrino Fernández (1983)
Corporate Complicities: Victoria Basualdo (2006)
Operation Cleansing: Henrique Cintra Santos (2023)
Freedom: Expression of a Responsibility: José Efraín Ríos Montt (1982)
Visual Source: Human Rights Abuses and the World Cup (1978)


Chapter XI: Historical Memory

Nunca Más: Ernesto Sabato (1984)
Opening Chile's Memory Box: Steve J. Stern (2010)
Testimony of Atrocity: Rigoberta Menchú (1984)
Memory of Silence: Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (1999)
Milk of Sorrows: Kimberly Theidon (2008)
Visual Source: Motherhood and Mexico's Dirty War (1981)


Chapter XII: Migration

The Corrido of the Uprooted Ones: Arnulfo Castillo (1942)
Puerto Ricans since the Failure of Operation Bootstrap: Jorge Duany (2011)
Cuban Migration and the Mariel Boatlift: Fidel Castro (1980)
The Dominican Diaspora after Trujillo's Assesination: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (2008)
Central America's Roots of Migration: Aviva Chomsky (2021)
Visual Source: Mariel Boatlift (1980)