By Samantha Davis Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His research is centered on the experiences of enslaved people, mostly Africans, South Asians and their descendants, in the cities of colonial Mexico (New Spain) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. You can read his article “Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and …

Interview with Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, author of “Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s” Read more »

Curated by Samantha Davis Thematic Collections are assortments of past and recently released articles in HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion. As the world grapples with COVID-19, scholars and the public have turned to historical precedents of epidemic disease like the 1918 flu pandemic and typhus. The current crisis has prompted a wide range of reflections on public …

Historical Perspectives on Pandemics in Mexico Read more »

Ahora que estamos cerca de una fecha emblemática para México, en la que se abundará en datos históricos sobre la ocupación estadounidense del puerto de Veracruz ocurrida el 21 de abril de 1914, me parece pertinente recordar de manera muy breve uno de los aspectos que permitió un desembarco, hasta cierto punto, sencillo y sin demasiado peligro para los invasores: una marina de guerra mexicana prácticamente inexistente. Para nadie que haya hecho una somera revisión de la historia de …

El tímido desarrollo de la Marina de Guerra mexicana ¿Podía defenderse Veracruz en 1914? Read more »