This is the grave of Juan Bandini. Born in 1800 in Lima, Peru, Bandini grew up the son of a Spanish ship captain. His father moved the family to California in 1819 and he immediately got involved in the independence movement from Spain there. He...
mexican war
Currier & Ives production of Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, during America's unjust war to steal half of Mexico to expand slavery.
Race and history in New Mexico are contested in a way unique to the United States. This has to do with discrete historical events that took place in the Land.
On February 2, 1848, the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war the U.S. launched against Mexico to steal land and extend slavery. Mexico was forced to cede the northern half of the nation to the United States. That...
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.