A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An add...

The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th cen...

A rich collection of newspaper articles, editorial, and opinions published in the days before and...

Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages...

Accounts of several religions in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro by literary journalist João do...

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More than 120 brief thoughts from Pope Francis, with lengthy excerpt from his Laudato Si encyclic...

Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains ...

The name Chernobyl is now etched forever into human history. It was the scene of a man-made disas...

More than 120 succinct thoughts, ideas, positions, and philosophical notions from Pope Francis. T...

Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the to...