Historias Podcast

The Historias podcast is a weekly program featuring scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies. If you are looking for smart and inviting conversation on a wide variety of issues and more, this show is for you.Historias is a digital media project from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

Historias Podcast is a history podcast hosted by SECOLAS, with 192 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

SECOLAS hosts Historias Podcast, a history show with 192 episodes published.

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  Rachel Newman - The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexic's Foreign-Educated Elite

  Sep 1, 202653 min

  En The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite (Publicado por la Universidad de California, 2026), la historiadora Rachel Grace Newman reconstruye más de un siglo de políticas de educación en el extranjero para explorar la formación de una élite mexicana cosmopolita. El libro muestra cómo estudiar en Europa y Estados Unidos funcionó a la vez como mecanismo de distinción y reproducción de jerarquías sociales y como una inversión nacional asociada a las promesas de modernización, desarrollo y progreso. Newman examina así las tensiones entre privilegio, cosmopolitismo y proyecto nacional que atravesaron más de cien años de movilidad estudiantil mexicana.

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  Los golpes de estado en América Latina, con Sebastián Carassai y Kevin Coleman

  Apr 20, 202655 minS0

  In March 2026, we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. To reflect on its significance within a broader regional frame, we speak with historians Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, editors of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982. Their work adopts a comparative approach across cases such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, and Central America, examining the forces that drove these coups, the roles of the United States and local actors, and the forms of social support that sustained them. In doing so, it challenges the idea that these coups can be treated as a single...

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  Los golpes de estado en América Latina, con Sebastián Carassai y Kevin Coleman

  Apr 20, 202655 min

  In March 2026, we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. To reflect on its significance within a broader regional frame, we speak with historians Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, editors of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982. Their work adopts a comparative approach across cases such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, and Central America, examining the forces that drove these coups, the roles of the United States and local actors, and the forms of social support that sustained them. In doing so, it challenges the idea that these coups can be treated as a single phenomenon and instead highlights the distinct national dynamics that shaped authoritarian rule and its legacies.

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  La última guerra del Siglo de las Luces. Revolución Liberal y republicanismo popular en Ecuador (Entrevista con autora Valeria Coronel)

  Mar 23, 20261h 1mS0

  En este episodio escuchamos a la historiadora Valeria Coronel, directora de doctorado de historia andina de FLACSO. Una tremenda que ofrece un pantallazo de la historia y la historiografía del Ecuador y de America Latina desde fines del siglo XIX hasta el presente.

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  Episode VI - Resolution

  Mar 11, 20261h 16mS0

  In this final episode, Renata and Dustin examine the resolution and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Michelle Paranzino, Carlos Alzugaray, James Hershberg, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Peter Kornbluh, William LeoGrande, Michelle Chase, Michael Bustamante, and Aaron Coy Moulton.

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