The Mexican Revolution of 1910, depicted in films and photos with Pancho Villa riding his ferocious horse Siete Leguas. Men and women with bullet belts criss-crossing their chests stood proudly for ...

PHILADELPHIA — In 1910, the Mexican people overthrew the corrupt dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled the country for decades with authoritarian rigor. Years of violence, civil war and ...

Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month the U.S. Library of Congress has rolled out an interactive online exhibit that tells the story of the sometimes complex but never boring relationship between ...

Above my computer, on the wall, I have one photograph. Just one. It shows Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, the northern and southern leaders of the Mexican Revolution. November 20 is the anniversary ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Not many Americans know much about the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The impact of that revolution on the U.S. is the subject of the new book "Bad Mexicans" by our ...

Two recent books offer sharply contrasting perspectives on the Mexican Revolution, one of the most bloody and consequential upheavals of the early twentieth century. In her breezy retelling of the ...

On the surface, the lemon-colored outfit that resides on a mannequin in artist Nao Bustamante’s studio is the very picture of femininity: a late-Edwardian ensemble, it consists of a floor-length skirt ...

William O. Jenkins isn’t exactly a household name, but he was once among the richest and most influential men in Mexico. Jenkins was born in Tennesee in the 1870s. In his 20s, he moved to Mexico and ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Organise! investigates this extremely important and much-misunderstood event. Mexico in 1910 was a land where an emerging working class ...

THE facts concerning the Revolution are known, and are instantly seized and commented on by eager thinkers trying to explain everything according to American thought and American ways. By a strange ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 1910 (UP) - Confirmation of the report of the attack on his son by Mexican rioters, received here late today from Ambassador Henry L. Wilson, has aroused the state department.