Kristen Jancuk

Despite its reputation, coca is a versatile plant that has been cultivated in South America for millennia and used for everything from medicine to soft drinks.

Though she never held office, Eva Perón had an outsized role in shaping her husband’s political movement, Peronism, an ideology that outlasted the Peróns themselves.

The last true king of the Inca Empire, Huayna Capac, reigned over the 30-year period leading up to the conquest.

Check out six must-see sites where the Inca’s architectural skill and ingenuity are still awing visitors 500 years after the fall of their empire.

The mythology of Eva Perón has made it difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Check out eight little-known truths about her life—and death.

Black citizens remained largely disenfranchised until civil rights activism won a hard-fought battle for equality in the US election with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Not only did medical practice in the Americas predate the conquest, but Indigenous healers were besting their European counterparts in everything from surgery to antibiotics.

Evidence of human sacrifice is abundant among the pre-conquest civilizations. What’s the truth behind this “barbaric” practice?