Lionel Sosa's grandmothers on both sides of his family were a part of the great migration north of more than 1 million people during the Mexican Revolution to escape the blood and dust of civil ...

Throughout the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), Mexican women held different roles such as nurses and cucarachas (camp followers) gathering supplies, and sometimes fighting in battles.

My three siblings and I were born in Orange County. My grandparents, Ysidro and Angelita Herrera, enjoyed a good life in Mexico where they owned their home, had a blacksmith shop and leather goods ...

109 years from the beginning of the Mexican Revolution , History still needs to recognize and tell women's stories as part of Mexico's history. Most women who joined the political movement were ...

That people could seek only the survival of their way of life, or want a revolution so limited, so circumscribed and conservative, these notions are alien to out sophisticated way of thinking.

Pati experiences preserved foods that sustained people during the Mexican Revolution. Pati journeys to Casas Grandes to experience the preserved foods, or “conservas,” that sustained people ...

Mexico’s women fought alongside their men in all the wars Mexico had experienced at the end of a 30-year dictatorship that included the Mexican Revolution of 1810-1820, the invasion by the U.S ...

“Now we need another revolution,” says a character in one of the films, a bold statement for a film that was not funded by a tequila company but is backed by the Mexican government.

Beginning in 1914, Yucatecan revolutionary governors promulgated a series of decrees that liberated and regulated labor on henequen haciendas. The first of these decrees banned debt peonage, ...