Back Cover: America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum Inferior Globi Terrestris Pars. Map by Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt, 1596. Image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user "Pablo Busatto" on 2 June 2016. Public domain (image modified). [Link to image at Wikimedia Commons].

Behold the wonders of the New World, portrayed in these intricate historical maps dating over a century apart. On the front cover, Dutch cartographer Gerard Van Keulen (1678-1726) depicts "Both Americas" embellished with mythical creatures of the air, sea, and land. On the back cover, Walloon engraver Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) presents "America Mexicana" and "America Peruana" flanked by legendary figures of a different status: "Christophorus Columbus Genuensis" (1492), "Americus Vesputius Florentinus" (1497), "Magellanus" (1519), and "Franciscus Pisard" (1526).

In this much-anticipated edition of The History Teacher, a Special Issue on Teaching Latin American History, our talented educators share a variety of teaching methods for a variety of geographical regions and historical topics. An additional list of materials from our archives will be useful for any instructors--both Latin Americanists and non-specialists alike--seeking to engage students with the innovative strategies that have made The History Teacher among the most prestigious journals in the discipline.

Teaching Latin American History: Strategies, Experiments, and Experiences
  by Ulices Piña   (pp. 135-138)

Common Ground: Latin American History in the First-Year Experience
  by Julia C. O'Hara   (pp. 139-164)

Colonia Americana...¡NO!: Teaching Panamanian History
  by Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva   (pp. 165-198)

Teaching Historical Thinking Through an Environmental History Case Study:
Change Over Time in Amazonia
  by Emily F. Story   (pp. 199-212)

Teaching Latin American Sports History
  by Manuel Morales Fontanilla   (pp. 213-226)

A Case for the Asynchronous Survey: Modern Latin America
  by Carlos Salvador Dimas   (pp. 227-240)

Full Reviews Section   (pp. 249-254)

Beatty, Jacqueline. In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America
  by Catherine Allgor

Bloch, Brandon. Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for
Post-Nazi Democracy
  by Jenna Pittman

Boyd, Douglas A. Oral History: A Very Short Introduction
  by Peter Kojo Kontoh

Kim, Sunmin. The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early
Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate
  by Jonathan Cortez

Lake, Jessica. Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of
Defamation Law
  by Tracy A. Thomas

Ramírez, Marla A. Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who
Endured Repatriation
  by Yolanda Chávez Leyva

Szarejko, Andrew A. American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of
US Foreign Policy
  by Joseph Wrobleski

Teixeira, Melissa. A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
  by Andre Pagliarini

134   Contributors to The History Teacher
254   The History of The History Teacher
261   Questionnaire for Potential Reviewers
262   Membership/Subscription Information
264   Submission Guidelines for The History Teacher

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Carlos Salvador Dimas is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches courses on Latin America, history of STEM, and historical methods. In 2022, the University of Nebraska Press published his book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Riverside in 2014.

Manuel Morales Fontanilla is an Assistant Professor of History at Penn State Abington. His research explores how sports and physical culture intersect with social inequalities in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. His book manuscript, "Impossible Roads: A Cycling History of Colombia," traces the rise of competitive cycling, from the earliest competitions to its development into a widespread cultural phenomenon, and currently has a pre-completion contract with the University of Nebraska Press.

Julia C. O'Hara received a Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in 2004. She is an Associate Professor of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she teaches a wide range of topics within the field of Latin American history. Her field of expertise is modern Mexican history, and she has published on the topics of indigenismo and religion in northern Mexico. O'Hara's current research focuses on transnational artists in twentieth-century Mexico, including Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora.

Emily F. Story earned her Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 2006. She is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University in Maryland, where she also served six years as department chair. Her book, Modern Latin American History: A Skills-Based Approach, is expected to be published by Oxford University Press in 2027. In addition to historical pedagogy, Story's research interests include environmental aspects of road construction in Latin America and the building of Brasília.

Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva is a Latin American historian specializing in Cold War-era dictatorships, with a focus on Panama's military regime and cultural policies surrounding the nationalization of the Panama Canal. Her interdisciplinary research draws on cultural theory and five years of oral histories to center Panamanian intellectuals and artists. She is an educator at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, as well as an experienced curriculum consultant, advisory board member, and 2024 Kass Teacher Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.