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Latin America’s new nations fell into war and collapse

Latin America’s independence did not bring stability. New states splintered, empires broke apart, and border wars erupted ...
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The portrait shedding light on Spain’s decisive role in US independence: ‘This is proof that we are founders, not outsiders’

Growing recognition of the military leader Bernardo de Gálvez is helping highlight the role played by Spain and Latin America ...
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As it turns 250, the US questions its role in the world: ‘Great Satan’ or ‘indispensable nation’?

Since its founding in 1776, the United States has intervened abroad more than 500 times. A third of those interventions have ...

The Fourth of July Started A Global Legal Movement

Americans celebrate the Fourth of July because it marks the birth of the United States. Historians rightly remember it for ...

The Hispanic Founder

But if a Spaniard played such an important role in the founding, and if Pensacola—which sits in a deep-red county of a ...

America’s first sphere of influence becomes the test of its power at 250

Two centuries after the Monroe Doctrine, China is testing US influence in the hemisphere where it first projected power As ...

How Machado’s Return to Venezuela Got Derailed After U.S. Resistance

The opposition leader’s plan to return home after devastating earthquakes unraveled in midflight.