Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Veracruz state in 1794. Growing up in the steamy region gave him an immunity to the ...

Wondering, Is Mexican Independence Day a holiday ... the original battle cry to the troops at midnight on September 16, 1810. Though not the only patriotic holiday in Mexico, it is the largest.

While much has been written about the U.S.-Mexican War, the event that started it all, the 1810 revolution, has largely been viewed as a footnote. As a historian, it became clear to me that there ...

His major publications include “Hacienda & Market in 18th Century Mexico” (1981); “The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810-1821” (2001); “A ...

Now, the long-submerged past will serve to bring justice and reveal the hidden face of the much-vaunted Mexican Revolution, even though Benito Juarez himself forbade the trade of indigenous people a ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

The ballads took off during the Mexican revolution, when they were used to share stories of war heroes and glory from the conflict. That is why Barrón says he didn’t invent military corridos, ...