No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia
The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral
Chile's "crazy geography" / Benjamain Subercaseaux
Catastrophe and national character / Rolando Mellafe
Deforestation in Chile : an early report / Claudio Gay
"Catastrophe in Sewell" / Pablo Neruda
A call to conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure
In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere
Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren
The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales
A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King
Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana
Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderaon and Diego de Rosales
"To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange" / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657
Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche
From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue
"The Insolence of peons" / Mine owners of Copiapao
A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henraiquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples
An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822
The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales
A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel
A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martain Rivas
The university and the nation / Andraes Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile
A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanaia and its People
German immigrants in the South / Vicente Paerez Rosales, Times gone by
"A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary
How to run an hacienda / Josae Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook
A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California
Letters to the Santiago orphanage
Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question
Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolaas Palacios
The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro
The pacification of the Araucanaia / Pascual Coana
Gallery : Chile and its "others"
Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891, Josae Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Alessandri
The politics of reform, the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888
The Catholic Church and the social question / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova
Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren
Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa Maraia de Iquique / Elias Lafertte
Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdaes de Daiaz
The Lion of Tarapacaa / Arturo Alessandri
The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards
Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento
Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro
"Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral
Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants / interview with Juan Yarur and the Arab community in Chile
Social change and the crisis of the Catholic Church / Alberto Hurtado, "Is Chile a Catholic Country?"
"I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here" / interview with Elba Bravo, domestic service activist
Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party / The Chilean Socialist Party, 1933
Chile's public health crisis / Salvador Allende
The Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise / The League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras and the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura
Chile's "frustrated development" / Anaibal Pinto
The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH) / interview with Elena Caffarena
Autobiography and poems / Pablo Neruda
Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front / U.S. State Department cables
"Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts" / Elena Caffarena
Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown / Juan Lemuanir
Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image)
Between capitalism and communism / Eduardo Frei, The Mission of Social Christianity in Chile
Property and production / a brochure promoting Christian Democracy's agrarian reform
The Christian left / Jacques Chonchol and Julio Silva Solar, Toward a Communitarian World
The new song movement / interview with Inti-Illimani
Lyrics of the new song movement / Violeta Parra and Victor Jara
Gallery : The election of 1970
The United States and the election of Salvador Allende / de-classified U.S. government documents
A Mapuche land takeover / Peasants and landowners of Rucalaan
"We take the factory" / Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill
"Informing the people" / President Salvador Allende Gossens
"Women's power" against Allende / interview with Carmen Saenz
"So that Chile can renew its march forward" / Chilean Business and Professional Associations' Demands
"The Demands of the people" / Movement of the Revolutionary Left
A treasonous history / A group of retired generals and admirals
United States policy and covert action against Allende / The Church Committee, 1975
"Everyone knows what is going to happen" / Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats
"These are my final words" / President Salvador Allende Gossens
The military takes Santiago / Peter Winn
The new military regime justifies intervention / Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile
Pinochet's caravan of death / Patricia Verdugo
Women and torture / The National Commission on Political Detention and Torture
Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor / US Federal Bureau of Investigations
The 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzmaan
Shantytown protest / The Pobladores speak
The Chilean Women 's Movement / Julieta Kirkwood
The kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet
Sexuality and soccer / Pedro Lemebel
Dictatorship as revolution / Joaquain Lavain and Ernesto Tironi
The whole world was watching / The observer group of the Latin American Studies
Justice "to the degree possible" / Patricio Aylwin Azaocar
"The custody of the eyes" / Diamela Eltit
Legislating gender equality / Pilar Molina Armas
Gallery : social movements in transition
The credit-card citizen / Tomaas Moulin, Chile Today: Anatomy of a Myth
"Chile's greatest addition to the Spanish language" / John Brennan and Alvaro Taboada
"I never looked for power" / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
Historians critique Pinochet's "Anti-history" / eleven Chilean historians (also signed by 73 other scholars)
The Mapuche nation and the Chilean nation / Elicura Chihuailaf
Growth with equity / Alejandro Foxley
The politics of concertaciaon / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
"Chile : a Catholic country?" / Antonio Delfau, S.J.
"To never again live it, to never again deny it" / President Ricardo Lagos, The Valech report
The Chilean army after Pinochet / Army General and Commander in Chief Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa
La Presidenta de Chile, President Michelle Bachelet, 2006- 2010
Gallery : bicentennial embraces.