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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
Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse – the ancient site of Kiuic (KIE-yuk) was one of dozens of ancient Maya centers abandoned in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatan
September 22, 2009
Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god
September 21, 2009
Pair to present research on Stockton’s Latino history – Ruben Sanchez, manager of Stockton Rural Cemetery, recently sifted through the old records of deceased Mexicans and Mexican-Americans and collaborated with Stockton historian Grant Louis Ashley to bring to life some of the city’s history that has been overlooked.
What is Cesar Chavez Chavez’ place in history?
September 15, 2009
Hispanic-America: Historic roots in U.S. history and culture
Cool Life magazine photo archive of migrant workers via Google Images
September 9, 2009
Photos: National Museum of American History Explores Bracero Story in New Exhibition – website http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero
Bracero Story Explored in New Smithsonian Exhibition
September 8, 2009
Honoring Richard Pancho Gonzalez and His Legacy – a Latino tennis star remembered – He was the best player in the world for 10 years, from 1952 to 1961, his nephew said, and he won the United States Professional Championship eight times during that stretch. – (I had no idea – actually just found 2 old posts)
September 1, 2009
Catching Up on Catherine Ramirez’s THE WOMAN IN THE ZOOT SUIT
August 26, 2009
Hollywood movies used ‘Buscadero’ out of context – The term Buscadero originally applied to lawmen, stemming from the Spanish buscador, or busca, meaning to search
August 25, 2009
A map painted by Mexican Indians in the mid-16th century has become a key document for understanding the migration of Mesoamerican peoples from their land of origin in what is now the U.S. Southwest, according to a scholar at Harvard University Divinity School.
August 21, 2009
Meet Maria Patino, The Latino Woman/Man Athlete Who Already Went Through This Gender Nonsense Decades Ago
August 17, 2009
We call our neighbor city to the south Ciudad Juárez
Rita Hayworth from BLOOD AND SAND
488 year anniversay of the fall of the Aztec Empire – August 13, 1521
August 13, 2009
Intentan reubicar altar maya descubierto en la ampliación de una carretera
August 11, 2009
A Kid’s Guide to Latino History by Valerie Petrillo
August 10, 2009
Ecuador: The Cry for Independence 200 Years Ago
July 28, 2009
The meteoric rise of the Incan empire between 1400 and 1532 was driven by a sustained period of warmer weather, new research on Peruvian lake sediments suggests.
July 27, 2009
Maria Conchita Alonso Narrates New Documentary About Latin American Dictators And Immigration
July 20, 2009
Un basurero de Nueva York encuentra figuras mayas del año 300 antes de Cristo
Every year, around July 20, El Pasoan Felipe Cardenas proudly tells people that his father buried Pancho Villa twice.
A documentary by a Denver-based film company brings the now-fading raids at Swift & Co. back to the fore, delving into a spectrum of issues surrounding both the raid and the wider subject of immigration reform. – “Swift Justice”
July 16, 2009
Cuban women’s plight, pain preserved in book – Recuento Para La Historia, or Retold for History – Nelson Rodríguez Diéguez
July 14, 2009
Review of – Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley.
Mexican President Victoriano Huerta rests in El Paso cemetery
July 3, 2009
Happy Ritchie Valens Day! – the 4th of July
June 29, 2009
Rare petroglyphs found in Cuban caves
June 23, 2009
Book sheds light on El Paso’s role in Mexican Revolution – “The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906 and 1920″
June 18, 2009
Remembering El Espectador – The muckracking, Spanish-language newspaper founded in the ’30s still shows the way for today’s burgeoning ethnic media
Advocating for Immigrants: Filmmakers Tell the Story of the Hispanic Press in America – Juan Gonzáles y Félix F. Gutiérrez
June 16, 2009
New exhibit focuses on Latino WWII veterans – University of Texas Prof Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is the director of the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project – The exhibit will be on display at In Their Own Words Veterans Museum in Perham, Minn. until July 31.
June 5, 2009
Happy Birthday, Federico García Lorca, Spanish Poet and Playwright
Sacred plants of the Maya forest – Some of the Central American rainforest’s hidden treasures are being revealed by the Maya, more than a millennium after their passing.
June 4, 2009
June 3, 1943 marked the start of just over a week of violence on the streets of Los Angeles that would come to be known as the Zoot Suit Riots – 66th Anniversary
June 1, 2009
A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in connection with the killing, more than 35 years ago, of the popular folk singer Victor Jara.
May 31, 2009
Tejanos to be represented with statue on front lawn of Texas state capitol
May 29, 2009
Sotomayor ’76: From the ‘Prince’ Archives – from Princton University
May 28, 2009
Historians to salute Hispanic roots in Loveland, Colorado
May 7, 2009
Bacardi headquarters in Miami headed for historic status
March 20, 2009
Mendez v. Westminster Case at Center of New Curriculum Children across California could soon learn about desegregation, migration, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and more
March 19, 2009
Guanajuato’s mummies are a window on the past
March 17, 2009
In late April, Alfredo Santos will publish his reference book, The 2009 Austin Hispanic Almanac, which will offer what he says is the first historical, statistical portrait of Austin’s Latino business and civic community as it’s evolved from the early 1900s to its status today as the city’s fastest-growing demographic component.
March 14, 2009
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Simón Bolívar! – Inspired by socialist President Hugo Chavez, a father and daughter are hoping to launch a line of action figures from Venezuela’s history to counter the popularity of “imperialist” American superheroes like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
March 3, 2009
Historian reveals the forgotten role of Tejanos in fostering Anglo immigration to Texas – Texas Independence Day – March 2nd
February 26, 2009
In Venezuela, Trying to Map Out Blueprint for Lost City – Nueva Cádiz
January 26, 2009
The history of U.S.-Cuba secret talks – Secret Kissinger era reports on ending “perpetual antagonism” with Cuba may hold lessons for Obama Administration
The ancient, intricate geometric patterns stamped on the surface of a desert in Peru have long been thought of as messages to the gods, or as markers that tracked celestial objects. Now new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for “prayer walking”. The Nasca lines
December 28, 2008
Sáenz embraced the rebel — and the rebel cause – The author brings to life Manuela Sáenz, a forgotten hero in Latin American history. – FOR GLORY AND BOLIVAR: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz by Pamela S. Murray
December 23, 2008
‘Cuba of yesteryear died’ with destruction of El Encanto store – When El Encanto burned down on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the destruction of the landmark Havana department store marked the end of an era.
Juan Gonzales, who was born and raised in east Stockton, is spearheading a project documenting 200 years of Latino journalism in the United States. Titled “Voices for Justice: The Enduring Legacy of the Latino Press in the U.S.,” the project follows how Latino newspapers and the issues they cover have changed since the inception of the nation’s first Latino newspaper, El Misisipi, founded in 1808 in New Orleans.
December 18, 2008
Dos exposiciones de fotografías simultáneas reflejan en forma emotiva y vibrante la inquietud social y política que conmovió a Latinoamérica en las últimas décadas. En “Cornell Capa: fotógrafo sensible” los trabajos expuestos datan a partir de 1953 en Guatemala, y hasta 1973 en Honduras. La segunda muestra es “Susan Meiselas: en la Historia”, y entre los países fotografiados figura Nicaragua, a quien dedicó mucho tiempo a partir de 1978 – NYC
Spain’s last statue of Franco is taken down in Santander
Tamale history: on the record – How the Delta-style tamale came about is still a mystery.
December 12, 2008
Starting on Sunday, The Miami Herald will publish a 10-part series marking the 50th anniversary of the day when Fidel Castro’s guerrilla movement toppled Fulgencio Batista and began the radical changes that became known as the Cuban revolution.
Killer Chic – Hollywood’s Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara – (very good 8 minute video)
December 10, 2008
Exotic Stone Relics Shed Light on Pre-Hispanic Cuba
December 9, 2008
Mysterious Mexican pyramid may have been built by newfound ancient culture
December 8, 2008
Maria Elena Salinas: The unusual path of hemisphere’s saint – Virgin of Guadalupe
Debate Rages in Peru: Was a Lost City Ever Lost? – Machu Picchu
200 Years of Latino Media – Latino media is celebrating its bicentennial. Juan Gonzales and Felix Gutierrez discuss 200 years of Latino media.The story begins on September 7, 1808, with founding of El Misisipi in New Orleans. It was the first newspaper by and for Spanish-speaking people in the U.S. El Misisipi set the stage for the thousands of publications, broadcast, and Internet news outlets currently serving Latinos.
December 2, 2008
Man’s basement library a trove of Latino history – Richard Soto in Stockton, California
Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico – The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” a traveling exhibition currently at the Museo Alameda – San Antonio
November 25, 2008
A Nation of Immigrants Celebrates Thankgiving: Looking Back on Immigration History And Our Ancestors’ Arrivals
November 21, 2008
On the heels of their fascinating first book about Greeley’s Spanish Colony, Jody and Gabriel Lopez will soon follow with “From Sugar to Diamonds,” the stories of the Greeley Grays and other Latino baseball teams in northern Colorado of the past 80 years.
November 19, 2008
The director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul dredged the artifacts from the sacred lake at the ruins of Chichen Itza.
November 18, 2008
The Mexican Revolution and Its Legacy a Century Later
November 7, 2008
In 1964, President Johnson’s top adviser, Jack Valenti, cut down a group of Latinos seeking presidential appointments. “You have one percent of the vote, so you have one percent of my attention,” Raul Yzaguirre recalled Valenti saying.
November 3, 2008
Tracing Your Indigenous Roots in Sonora – A challenge and an adventure
October 29, 2008
Andean mummy hair has provided the first direct archaeological evidence of the consumption of hallucinogens in pre-Hispanic Andean populations, according to recent gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis.
October 23, 2008
Website chronicles farm workers’ rights fight by Cesar Chavez
October 21, 2008
LEARNING FROM THE GRIM BRACERO EXPERIENCE
October 15, 2008
Discovery en Espanol Presents ‘Silencio en Juarez’ – A Stunning Visual Expose that Sheds Light on the Vile Murders and Disappearances of Thousands of Innocent Women in Ciudad Juarez
October 6, 2008
This Year Marks The 40th Anniversary Of José Feliciano’s Famed Performance Of The National Anthem In The 1968 World Series
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