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March 18, 2010
Author takes on challenge of telling the stories of Mexican pioneers in Big Bend – Federico Villalba’s Texas: A Mexican Pioneer’s Life in the Big Bend” by Juan Manuel Casas
From the Motherlands to El Barrio: New York’s Latino Immigrant Experience – The American Museum of Natural History – Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, 1–5 pm –
March 15, 2010
10 Reasons to Commemorate the Chicano Moratoriums 1969-1971 – While many of the Chicano generation are retiring from work, its not time to retire from the movement
March 12, 2010
Farmingvillle Redux
‘SAN PATRICIO’ Debuts As The #1 Selling Latin Album at iTunes – THE JUST RELEASED ALBUM SEES THE CHIEFTAINS REKINDLE THEIR GRAMMY-WINNING PARTNERSHIP WITH RY COODER TO ILLUMINATE THE MUSICAL AND HISTORICAL BONDS BETWEEN IRELAND AND MEXICO
Irish/Mexican history a moment too many want to forget
March 11, 2010
Tejano Monument May Turn Recognition into Respect
March 10, 2010
Two literary pieces written in Nahuatl and attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, which have been translated by experts, preserve the Indian cult of mountains in a disguised language
March 8, 2010
Prohibition in the United States drove Texas bars and brothels to the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and helped create an image problem that Mexico’s murder capital has been unable to repair, according to a newly published book. – Rutilio Garcia Pereyra, author of “Ciudad Juarez la fea” (Ugly Ciudad Juarez)
Book on Chavez grows out of SB woman’s own story – Carmen Nevarez of San Bernardino – “Inland Empire Paves the Way for Cesar E. Chavez”
The University of Houston-Victoria will screen a film detailing the deaths of Mexican-Americans during the early 1900s at the hands of Texas Rangers. – “Border Bandits”
March 2, 2010
The last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata has died at 94. – Ana Maria Zapata Portillo
March 1, 2010
Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday at 62 after a battle with cancer
The novel “La Insurgenta” rescues from oblivion the women who participated in the struggle for Mexico’s independence, a history in which the male heroes characteristically figure but not the female ones, Mexican writer Carlos Pascual
The University of Texas at Arlington Department of History and the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies will present the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures March 10 and 11. The series is titled “The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940.”
February 27, 2010
In May, 1960, the largest earthquake recorded in the 20th century hit off the coast of central Chile. The quake, which had a magnitude of 9.5, killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless.
February 25, 2010
LULAC formed in Corpus Christi – Feb 17, 1929
February 22, 2010
A replica of the sacred center of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, will begin construction this year outside Mexico City
The Borinqueneers U.S. Stamp Petition Campaign
France seizes biggest contraband of Taino artifacts
February 17, 2010
New Musical Tells the Story of Civil Rights Leader Cesar Chavez – Let the Eagle Fly – The Story of Cesar Chavez lands in San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area to tell the story of the farm workers struggle and nationwide grape boycott
February 15, 2010
2010 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most significant events of the Chicano movement: the Chicano Moratorium
The Press Fights for the Trust of U.S. Hispanics
Spanish Researchers Publish Work on Mayan Pictographs
The legend of Adelita in Mexico
February 11, 2010
Dallas City Council renames downtown street for César Chávez
February 8, 2010
Dallas City Council members are expected to approve renaming South Central Expressway for Cesar Chavez. The name change would only cover a few blocks.
The documentary film “Swift Justice,” about the 2006 immigration raids on the Swift meat-packing plants in Greeley and other cities, will be shown next Thursday at two libraries.
February 4, 2010
Caminos: Vicente Ximenes, Champion of Civil Rights
February 2, 2010
Machu Picchu’s Engineering Marvels – Nat’l Geo Video
February 1, 2010
Fidel and Raul Castro’s Sister Narrates in Her Memoirs Secrets Never Before Revealed, Not Even to Her Brothers
Fernando Chacon: Texas State board reflects narrow view of history
January 29, 2010
The Secret History of the Unconquered Maya
January 28, 2010
LULAC: Then and Now – Review: No Mexicans, Women, Or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by Cynthia E. Oro
Mayan tomb find may help explain collapse – (Toltec expansion?)
January 27, 2010
Tejano statue to help fill gap in historical accounts – Capitol monument comes after 10-year campaign for recognition.
January 25, 2010
Americans may not be ready for a fuller view of Cesar Chavez
Dominicans to pay homage to Founding Father Juan Pablo Duarte
January 22, 2010
100th anniversary: Mexican Revolution not even as deadly as Juárez now
January 21, 2010
Haiti won’t take Dominican (military) aid
January 20, 2010
UTEP’s Bracero Project Wins National Recognition – Mexican Worker Program Addressed Agriculture Labor Shortage During WW2, UTEP Preserves its History
January 19, 2010
A brief history of Hispanic Women in the United States
Aleida Guevara, Che Guevara’s daughter, talks about having to share her ‘Papi’ with the world – and her dislike of the commercialisation of his image
January 18, 2010
1000-year-old stele with the sculpted image of a Mayan ruler was found in the archaeological area of Lagartero in the southern Mexican state of Chaipas
January 17, 2010
Timeline: Key events in U.S. war on drugs in Latin America
Where Spain’s conquistadors called home – Many New World explorers came from the Extremadura region in the western part of the country, and some of them returned home with indigenous brides in tow.
January 14, 2010
Operation Wetback was a 1954 operation by the INS to remove about 1 million illegal immigrants from the southwestern United States, focusing on Mexican nationals
Texas State Rep. Norma Chávez on Wednesday urged the State Board of Education to include more Hispanics in public school history books.
January 13, 2010
In the past 500 years, a dozen major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have occurred in the Caribbean near Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the island of Hispaniola
In 1946, a M8.1 quake hit the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola, and produced a tsunami that killed almost 2,000 people.
January 12, 2010
100 years after the Mexican Revolution: International Museum of Art touts collection – El Paso
The Hispanic Legacy in the Independence of the United States
January 11, 2010
Cuba Marks 51st Anniversary of Castro’s Arrival in Havana
Last Son of Pancho Villa Dies in California – Ernesto Nava Villa – He was 94
A group of Peruvian teenagers found it funny to vandalize the Chan Chan archaeological site, one of the most important in the country, and uploaded their “adventures” to YouTube, sparking a wave of indignation across the country.
Mexico’s Year in Chicago: City gearing up for 2010 celebrations
Are we going to start studying Latino contributions to our history?
January 5, 2010
Remembering Some Hispanic History in the U.S.
Mexico’s Negative Press in the United States – Part II
January 4, 2010
Top ten Latin America events of the past ten years
HISPANIC LEGACIES IN TEXAS
December 14, 2009
Mexican History in a Single Phrase: ‘Los de Abajo’
December 11, 2009
Documentary takes peek at Fidel Castro’s private side – An international cast of luminaries who traveled to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro, as well as top members of his government and military, talk about their experiences with the man who ruled the island for 49 years in U.S. documentarian Estela Bravo’s Anecdotas Sobre Fidel
December 10, 2009
Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest
December 8, 2009
The Latino connection to Pearl Harbor lives on
December 2, 2009
Photos: ‘The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present’ on view at the Anacostia Community Museum through July 4, 2010
November 30, 2009
Chile’s Victor Jara Beaten, Tortured Before Execution, Autopsy Says
Witnessing history – ‘Chinito’ photographs Juárez for 64 years – Hector Oaxaca Acosta has been taking pictures in Juárez since 1945.
November 23, 2009
Importance of Younger Generations for 19th century U.S. Hispanics
November 18, 2009
Northern Mexico’s Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America’s last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.
November 16, 2009
Comments on a California Legislative Bill by a Hispanic Newspaper in 1856
Peruvian archaeologists have reached the conclusion that the Incas decapitated their enemies to use their heads as offerings after finding three skulls in a ceremonial vessel in the southeastern city of Cuzco.
2012 fears are down for Maya ‘Long Count’ calendar
November 12, 2009
Literanista: The LOST TAINO TRIBE Documentary
November 9, 2009
Puerto Ricans in Buffalo Boxing History: Believe it or not!
November 7, 2009
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Interviews Juanita Castro: “While you were still in Cuba and your brother was beginning a Marxist revolution, you were not only cooperating with the CIA, but you were protecting CIA agents who were inside Cuba at the time.”
November 5, 2009
Tlaloc the Aztec ‘rain god’ ate babies
November 2, 2009
Tales of weeping woman passed down in Hispanic culture – La Llorona
Peru: Nasca civilization succumbed to “El Niño” due to deforestation
Latino veteran history project expands its scope
October 27, 2009
Preserving El Salvador’s historic memory: Organizer explains big L.A. event – “Preservación de la Memoria Histórica Salvadoreña”
October 17, 2009
Mambo Gee Gee – THE STORY OF GEORGE GOLDNER AND TICO RECORDS
Hispanic History in The Port City! – Mobile, Alabama
October 14, 2009
1969: Chicano Movement Rising – Notes on Raza history in East LA, Oct 14 at Cal State LA
October 12, 2009
2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist
As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close this week, many Valley Hispanics are reflecting on a history much different than the one told by traditional historians. – Hispanics, who had been largely left out of local history books, are finding their community played a much larger role in the development of metropolitan Phoenix than most people realized.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signs law that highlights Hispanic history in public schools
October 5, 2009
Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.
Sugar beets to baseball: Northern Colorado’s Hispanic baseball league
October 2, 2009
10 years later, Latino oral history project expands
Initiative will collect narratives from Korea, Vietnam in addition to World War II. – Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Nostalgia Corner: Why the Bolero Was Censored in Cuba
‘Kid’s Guide to Latino History’ can be a valuable resource – Book review
September 30, 2009
Does the U.S. Constitution defend the rights of undocumented immigrants?
Detroit Science Center will open “The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato” — a scientific, medical and cultural look at 36 Mexicans buried between about 1850 and 1950 whose bodies were unintentionally mummified in cement crypts.
On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernandez became the first Hispanic-American to serve in Congress as a delegate from the Florida Territory.
September 29, 2009
StoryCorps Launches Historias – A Groundbreaking Initiative To Create One of the Largest Collections of Latino Stories Ever Recorded in the United States
A Chilean family who was removing the soil from the yard of their home where they were planning to do some construction got a big surprise when they found four skeletons dating from 320 B.C.
Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.
September 24, 2009
The world-famous British Museum is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.
Efrain’s Corner: El Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico
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