Winner of the Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá AwardFinalist for the 2024 David J. Weber Book PrizeAround the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U...

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Winner of the Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitali...

Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employ...

Register Now   Brandon Morgan, Ph.D. Associate Dean and History Instructor Central New Mexico Community College In Raid and Reconciliation, Brandon

In Raid and Reconciliation, Brandon Morgan examines the story of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico—an event that has been referenced in various histories of the border and the Mexican Revolution but not contextualized on its own—and shows that violence was integral to the modern capitalist development that shaped the border. Raid and Reconciliation provides new insights into the Mexican Revolution and sheds light on the connections between violence and modernization. Lessons from this border story resonate in today’s debates over migration, race, and what it means to be an American. Dr. Brandon Morgan is Associate Dean for History, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Native American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Communication at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), where he has taught since the fall of 2009. He authored The History of New Mexico, a free, open, digital textbook used at CNM and other New Mexico universities, colleges, and high schools. He also supported the formation of CNM’s Latin American Studies associate's degree program by partnering with UNM’s Latin American and Iberian Institute. That partnership includes Study Abroad programs in Antigua, Guatemala, and Mexico City. His book, Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in August 2024.

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

This is roughly the text of the keynote I delivered at the Columbus Historical Society Villa raid commemoration, March 8, 2025. The raid…

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