Focusing on the relations between Uruguay and the United States in the context of World War II, Forgotten Neighbors emphasizes Uruguay’s important role in the era’s inter-American affairs and in the evolving US security matrix, highlighting both the vast reach and limits of US power.

Using rarely studied financial records from the Inquisition’s archives, Ana María Silva Campo reveals how the Spanish Inquisition seized property from prosperous Black women and descendants of Portuguese Jews—a process of selective persecution and wealth redistribution that helped create racialized economic hierarchies in a Spanish colonial city.

Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across the Atlantic world.