Cuentos Selectos Sleepytales

This historical fiction novel summary first published in 1994 and later adapted into a film in 2001, presents a poignant portrayal of the Mirabal sisters—national heroes and martyrs known as the “butterflies.

Learn about The Spanish American wars of independence. They were a series of conflicts that took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century.

Learn in this episode how the participation of women in the processes of independence and in the construction of the Republics in Latin America was made invisible.

Los quilombos were spaces of resistance and denial of slave labor in Brazil, learn about them in this episode.

Casta paintings are a form of artwork created in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Mexico and used by elites to create and assign race to people of various ancestries. Learn more in this episode.

One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. Learn about the truth in this episode.

The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) was a period of extraordinary literary achievement in Spain from the early 16th to the late 17th century, marked by innovations in poetry, prose, and drama.

Learn about la Malinche, or Malintzin, who was the primary interpreter in the retinue of Hernán Cortés during his conquest of Mexico in the early 16th century and has become one of the most divisive women in Mexican history.

Explore the Toledo School of Translators.One of most interesting part of 'why Iberia' topic is the great cultural wealth and complexity of medieval Iberia, especially that of the moors and Sephardi’s. Part of what the author Mar talks her about identity.

Explore Aztec cosmology.
Nahua cosmogony (the origin and structure of the cosmos according to Nahua-speaking peoples, including the Mexica/Aztecs) is a sophisticated, cyclical, and relational system. It emphasizes duality, balance through struggle, perpetual movement, and the need for human participation (especially sacrifice) to sustain the world.