Oriol Ambrogio Gali is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. His latest book Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 was published by Nebraska in December. Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of … Continue reading Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments
David Yee is an assistant professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His latest book Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 (Nebraska, 2024) was published in November as part of the Confluencias series. In … Continue reading Excerpt: Informal Metropolis
Nora E. Jaffary is a professor of history at Concordia University. She is the author of Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 and False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Nebraska, 2008). Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Abortion in Mexico
Brandon Morgan is a history instructor and an associate dean in the School of Liberal Arts at Central New Mexico Community College. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism … Continue reading Excerpt: Raid and Reconciliation
Mary Klann is a lecturer in U.S. history and Native American history at the University of California–San Diego. Her most recent book Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America was published by … Continue reading “Who is to gain?” Wardship and Indian Citizenship after the Indian Citizenship Act
Dr. Kevin M. Anzzolin, Lecturer of Spanish, arrived at Christopher Newport University in 2021, where he teaches a wide range of classes. His book, Guardians of Discourse: Literature and Journalism in Porfirian Mexico, will be published this month with the … Continue reading From the Desk of Kevin M. Anzzolin: What’s New in Mexican Journalism?
Today marks the 200th year anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. On August 24, 1821, eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which approved a plan … Continue reading 200th Year Anniversary of Mexican Independence from Spain
Books An Unladylike Profession Chris Dubbs Starred review in Kirkus: “In American Journalists in the Great War (2017), Dubbs barely mentioned the women reporters of World War I. This follow-up book is an impressive corrective… Readers will be inspired by the nearly … Continue reading News and Reviews
Susie S. Porter is an Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at University of Utah and a co-editor of a document reader in Mexican history … Continue reading Women’s History Month: From the Desk of Susie S. Porter
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of A Revolution Unfinished: The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy in Juchitán, Oaxaca (November 2018) by Colby Ristow. This is the latest book in the Mexican Experience Series which explores the … Continue reading Excerpt: A Revolution Unfinished
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