This essay provides a broad overview of the different periods of Mesoamerican history.
Art of the Americas
The Midway Plaisance was a mile-long carnival area adjacent to the Chicago World's Fair, featuring carnival rides, performances, food stalls, and inhabited “villages” purporting to display architecture and customs from around the world.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The Midway
The white, Beaux-Arts buildings declared that the center of the world's innovation had moved to the United States; and it was and ought to be under the exclusive control of white men.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City ...
Suffused with the contemporary racist pseudoscience of Social Darwinism—which claimed that white people with northern European ancestry were the most “evolved” race—the World’s Columbian Exposition cast other races and cultures as the living relatives of white people’s distant ancestors.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: Introduction
The University of Alabama, Civil War, and slavery; examining the role of architecture as historical marker
Little Round House
The Mogollon tradition of the Greater Southwest was diverse, expansive, and vibrant.
Introduction to Mogollon
Pottery Makers is one of many that the artist Awa Tsireh (Cattail Bird, Spanish name Alfonso Roybal) created about Pueblo cultures
Awa Tsireh, Pottery Makers
An 18th-century painting from New Spain visualizes Christ's suffering in New Spain
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, Christ Consoled by ...
San Agustín de Acolman’s style suggests a protective function, and may have referenced the temple of Jerusalem, celebrating Mexico as a “New Jerusalem” where the Christian faith could flourish.
A new Jerusalem in the Americas—the convento ...
Paquimé played a key role in trade and cultural contacts between the Pueblo culture of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica.
Paquimé (Casas Grandes), Mogollon culture
El Tajin has survived as an outstanding example of the grandeur and importance of the pre-Hispanic cultures of Mexico.
El Tajín
These missions are a reminder of the Jesuits' Christianization of the Río de la Plata basin in the 17th and 18th centuries
Jesuit Missions of the Río de la ...
The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.
Churches of Chiloé
From c. 100 B.C.E. to 1300 C.E., the Sierra de San Francisco was home to a people who left one of the most outstanding collections of rock paintings in the world.
Rock paintings of Sierra de San Francisco
Caral's plan and some of its components, including pyramidal structures and residence of the elite, show clear evidence of ceremonial functions, signifying a powerful religious ideology.
Caral
The planning of this huge city, the largest in pre-Columbian America, reflects a strict political and social strategy
Chan Chan
The ruins of Quirigua contain some outstanding 8th-century monuments and an impressive series of carved stelae and sculpted calendars that constitute an essential source for the study of Mayan civilization.
Quiriguá
Xochicalco is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a fortified political, religious and commercial centre from the troubled period of 650–900
Xochicalco
The ruined citadel and imposing public squares reveal the three main stages of development before the city was abandoned in the early 10th century.
Copán
The ceremonial center of Tikal contains superb temples and palaces, and public squares accessed by means of ramps.
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