In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Flag Day commemorates Haiti’s 1804 victory in its war of independence from France. Led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has become a caricature display of far-left identity politics.

The Monroe Doctrine, America’s fundamental national security imperative, seeks to exclude outside powers from the Western Hemisphere ... to support our allies in Europe and Asia.

That accent alludes to the fusion of capital and religion as European empires staked ... The author delves deep into our hemisphere’s primary colonial tension: Spain vs. Britain (and later ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

For years, commentators have been fretting about the so-called Thucydides Trap: When an incumbent hegemon (the US) fears a ...

When President James Monroe asserted in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was solely ... Monroe’s original vision was focussed on keeping European colonialism at bay. It certainly would not ...