Lesson 501 – A Gaucho Gathering in Uruguay Each year several thousand gauchos-Uruguayan cowboys-gather in the interior town of Tacuarembó for a festival and parade. We travel to...
Lesson 502 – Trinidad and Tobago: Where East Meets West The island of Trinidad and its small companion, Tobago, form the most ethnically diverse nation in the Caribbean and are...
Lesson 503: Mexico City’s Markets: a Millennium of Trade The ancient Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was home to several great markets. As we travel through Mexico City, which...
Lesson 504: Brazil’s Pernambuco: The Forgotten Interior Unlike much of Brazil, the interior of the northeastern state of Pernambuco is an arid semi-desert. Away from the great...
Lesson 505: The Mata Atlantica: Brazil’s Other Rainforest One of the world’s most diverse forests, the Mata Atlantica, once covered Brazil’s southeastern coast for over a thousand miles...
Lesson 506 – Blackfeet and Bison For well over a thousand years, the Blackfeet people of Montana have made their home where the Great Plains meet...
Lesson 507: Chesapeake Bay: Of Clams and Oysters It is the largest bay on the Atlantic coast of the Americas, pivotal in the history of prehistoric, historic, and...
Lesson 508: Colombia: Cartagena and a Hidden Palenque Colombia’s Caribbean coast was once a source of the wealth of the Caribbean. The city of Cartagena was the most...
Lesson 509 – Peoples of Oaxaca and the arrival of Holy Week The state of Oaxaca is home to more than sixty different ethnic groups. We visit several of them. The Coastal...
Lesson 510 – The Brazilian state of Ceará From dazzling beaches to verdant mountains to parched scrubland, Ceará, exhibits many of the attractions and the contradictory currents that...
