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Film, Video The Aztecs in Their Own Words

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Title

  • The Aztecs in Their Own Words

Summary

  • What did the Aztecs say about themselves when they were speaking their own language and writing for their own people? In such sources, the picture of them that emerges is profoundly different than Spanish colonial sources. Camilla Townsend, Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, explores this topic in the annual Kislak Lecture at the Library of Congress. Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of “Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs” and “Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico.”

Event Date

  • Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Running Time

  • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 42 seconds

Online Format

  • image
  • online text
  • video

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