This article addresses and discusses the Memoirs of Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho (1735-1804), 1st Viscount of Balsemão, which were used as sources for the production of the 1780 edition of the ...

DARTMOUTH — In a room of the Liberal Arts building at UMass Dartmouth, 20 gathered to listen to Portuguese journalist and author Alexandra Lucas Coelho talk about Rio de Janeiro and how it plays in ...

BRAZIL is an American extension of Portugal. For those who know their history, this is such an obvious fact that sometimes it is forgotten. And yet it is the most important thing to remember about ...

Brazil has the world’s eighth largest population, the twelfth largest gross national product, and it takes up nearly half of South America; yet Americans as a whole know little of this huge nation’s ...

It is not known how the ceremonial cloak left Brazil, though experts believe it was made in the mid-16th century, when the country was under Portuguese colonization ...