Created from almost nothing, Cancún has become a tourist playground that both celebrates and obscures the history of the Yucatán and its peoples.

The California activists played the role of a health agency to ensure women received safe and competent health care in Mexican clinics.

Paula Carmona, the founding mother of the magonista movement, was all but erased from Mexico’s revolutionary history.

Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.

When different cultures meet, their languages, foods, and songs mix and change—and so do their monsters.

Mexico created its national parks system in the 1930s. Today, hundreds of thousands of people live, and work, within its boundaries.

Un análisis químico de una área puede determinar cuánta contaminación hay en el aire. Pero hay un método mucho menos costoso que podría ayudar a las comunidades más pobres.

A chemical analysis of an area can find out how much pollution is in the air. But there's a much less expensive method that could help poorer communities.

The adoption of Aztec cultural iconography by modern activists has roots in Mexican nationalist policies of the 1920s.

The debate over what counts as authentic Mexican food may be moot when there are 7,000 Taco Bells around the world.