In this video, Dartmouth Associate Professor of Art History Mary Coffey explains the history, artistic elements, and legacy of José Clemente Orozco’s famous murals at Dartmouth.

The Orozco mural cycle, one of Dartmouth’s greatest treasures, has been designated a national historic landmark, one of 13 new landmarks announced March 11, 2013, by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.

Dartmouth welcomes scholars and activists who are shaping the future of Latina/o Studies for a two-day conference February 13-14, 2014. Sessions take place in Haldeman 041.

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Silvia Spitta and Dartmouth librarian Jill Baron traveled to Cuzco, Peru, in December, to organize and catalogue more than 40,000 glass plate negatives made by the late indigenous Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi.

This year, Dartmouth is home to three scholars fresh from the graduate programs where they have prepared their doctoral work.

Author Junot Díaz will be on campus next week as part of a series of events marking Latin@ Heritage Month at Dartmouth.

The first Latino and first openly gay writer so honored, he joined Robert Frost, who read at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and Maya Angelou, who read at President Bill Clinton’s.

Dozens of Haitian artists, business leaders, health policy experts, and government officials, including a former prime minister, will join the Dartmouth community in discussions next week at the Porter Foundation Symposium, “Haiti and Dartmouth at the Crossroads.”

In the summer of 2009, Francisco Herrera ’13, the first in his family to attend college, left his home in Miami to begin his first year at Dartmouth....

Dartmouth’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a major international symposium, “The Independence Effect,” examining the influences behind independence movements in Latin America.