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Editor’s Note: Nearly 40 years ago this month, First Lady Pat Nixon crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and embraced Mexican children, saying,…
Esequiel Hernández Jr. was only 18-years-old when Clemente Manuel Banuelos, a U.S. Marine corporal, shot and killed him in Redford, Texas in…
Fourteen years ago in May, Nelson Mandela assumed the presidency of a democratic South Africa, marking the formal end of the transition…
Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki spent several years working on the book, researching and documenting life in southern California, the U.S-Mexico borderlands,…
I t was at approximately 9:00 AM on August 13, 1998 that Ralph Smith, the Deputy Coroner for California’s Imperial County, received…
Until recently, mainstream U.S. political pundits rarely applied the term “imperialist” to the United States. Such a term was unflattering to a…
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