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In 1975, Octavio Paz, Mexico’s poet-diplomat and Nobel Literature Prize winner moved away from his infamous 1950 essay “The Pachuco and Other Extremes”. Echoing the enthusiasm among intellectual circles for the Chicana/o Movement, he wrote “…the Chicano movement has impressed Mexicans and th...
Taylor’s army fought several battles south of the Rio Grande, captured the important city ofMonterrey, and defeated a major Mexican force at theBattle of Buena Vistain February 1847. ButTaylorshowed no enthusiasm for a major invasion of Mexico, and on several occasions he failed to pursue the...
government’s prosecution of the war with Mexico was immoral. Although he spent only a single night in jail (his aunt, against his wishes, paid the taxes, thus securing his release), Thoreau documented his opposition to the government’s actions in his famous book-length essay Civil ...
José Vasconcelos was a Mexican educator, politician, essayist, and philosopher, whose five-volume autobiography, Ulises Criollo (1935; “A Creole Ulysses”), La tormenta (1936; “The Torment”), El desastre (1938; “The Disaster”), El proconsulado (193
He was captured by the British in that campaign, but he was exchanged in 1813 and went on to fight in the battles of Chippewa (July 5, 1814) and Lundy’s Lane (July 25), where his success made him a national hero. By war’s end he had attained the rank of major general. Scott...