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Latin American Inventors Who Changed the World

Man has always found ways to make life better–through devices, techniques, and ideas that radically alter the way we live. Inventors from Spanish-speaking Latin America have contributed innovations that changed the world as we know it today.

Hispanic Community September 2025 Premium

Emblematic NPS Hispanic Heritage Sites in the U.S.

Hispanic presence in the U.S. dates back to the 1500s, leaving enduring cultural, religious, and architectural legacies. Historic forts, missions, and monuments preserved today reflect centuries of Spanish exploration and settlement, shaping American identity and enriching society with vibrant Hispanic heritage.

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One Language, Many Voices: Examples of Cultural Diversity in the Spanish Language

Although a language fulfills the essential function of communicating and improving understanding between parties, that is not its  only role. Language is a cultural expression that reflects  a way of feeling, thinking, living, and conceiving the world. For this reason, a single language can display as many variations as the settings in which it is used, geographical, social, and contextual—such as formal or informal registers, age, or education level. Because of this complexity, it is challenging to universalize concepts  on the use of language.

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Hispanic Community June 2016

UC Davis Student Takes Father’s Lessons to Heart, Named Top Graduate

University of California, Davis, student Lucydalila Cedillo grew up in East Los Angeles in a home without books, collected recyclable cans with her mother to help support the household and didn’t know anyone who had gone to college. But on morning rides to middle school, she took to heart what her father told her about the importance of learning.

Hispanic Community December 2015 Premium

CUNY Launches Major Voter Registration and Education Campaign

The non-partisan CUNY campaign will utilize the University's website (www.cuny.edu/vote), CUNY-TV, email messages, and social media platforms, as well as the efforts of nearly 30 voter registration coordinators that will be organizing college activities to register students by March 25–the deadline for the April 19 Presidential Primary in New York.

Hispanic Community September 2015

Vicki Ruiz to receive National Humanities Medal from President Obama

Irvine, Calif. – Vicki Ruiz, Distinguished Professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine and president of the American Historical Association, has been named a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal. The National Humanities Medal recognizes those who have deepened the country’s understanding of humanities and broadened citizens’ engagement with history, literature, languages, philosophy and other such disciplines.

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