THE facts concerning the Revolution are known, and are instantly seized and commented on by eager thinkers trying to explain everything according to American thought and American ways. By a strange ...
In 1909 a young American living in Mexico City visited the presidential palace at Chapultepec. The American, a lawyer from Texas, Will Buckley, listened as the ageing General Porfirio Díaz told the ...
“I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees,” said Emiliano Zapata, a peasant leader who played a remarkable role in the Mexican Revolution. Zapata was born into an unequal society that became ...
NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "This project examines the diverse political culture of Mexican immigrants, the formation and efficacy of immigrant-led transnational ...
The artist Nao Bustamante was already working on a show about soldaderas, the women who fought with and ably assisted the troops in the Mexican Revolution, when she learned about Leandra Becerra ...
Before the Revolution -- A tale of two Negroes -- Bordering on revolution -- A border drenched in blood -- Buffaloed soldiers -- Black and brown defenders of white supremacy? -- Negroes invade Mexico ...
SAN ANTONIO – More than a century before a vacant two-story mansion in the 1100 block of North Flores was damaged by fire, prominent leaders of the Mexican Revolution often gathered there. A Texas ...
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of the rebels who fled Mexico to the United States, and helped incite the 1910 Mexican Revolution that overthrew dictator Porfirio Díaz. Hernández spoke ...
Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson wears the uniform of a Buffalo Soldier while saddled on his horse during the Yosemite Grant sesquicentennial ceremony at Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Not many Americans know much about the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The impact of that revolution on the U.S. is the subject of the new book "Bad Mexicans" by our ...
The final episode explores the Mexican Revolution in the early part of the last century. The Mexican Revolution achieved the foundations of a modern Mexico. The episode examines the roles of ...