A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

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A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

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More than 75 cities in 30 countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean are connected by Copa Airlines. (Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus/anouchka). South America is a nature ...

The Santa Maria fell smack in the middle of the great golden age of North American mares that ... You don't need to have a mare from South America to win the Santa Maria, but it helps.