Long before Hollywood turned the cowboy into a white American myth, Mexico had already given North America the real thing. The figure came first as the vaquero: a horse-mounted cattle worker whose ...

Before Marissa López was Marissa López — and a professor of English, Chicana/o Studies, and Central American Studies at UCLA — she was known by the surname of Goodman, after her Jewish mother from ...

Many of the historical issues Ted Genoways wrote about in his book about Jose Cuervo are still present in Jalisco and more generally in Mexico today.

HISTORY, as Mexicans see it, is a largely calamitous chronology of conflict with troublesome foreigners. The first, Conquistador Hernán Cortés, landed near Veracruz A.D. 1519 with horses and 600 men, ...

Because history is anything but static, taking a closer look at received wisdom about a point in the past can be particularly revelatory. For instance, it’s long been argued by American historians ...

The Museum of Mormon Mexican History was started by Fernando and Enriqueta Gomez. Though he attended church in Mexico as a young boy, Fernando still learned about the pioneers in the United States.

During the holidays, there exists an unbreakable custom that for many Mexicans symbolizes a moment of family unity, tradition and one that simply cannot be skipped: preparing and eating tamales.