By Edward Shore Border Public History is an initiative of the History Department at the University of Texas-El Paso to preserve the public history of the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez metropolitan area. Directed by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva of the UTEP History Department, Border Public History fosters collaboration among historians and the general public to “recuperate […]
Refusing to Forget
By Edward Shore White terror and racial strife inflamed the Texas-Mexico border at the turn of the twentieth century. Historians estimate that police officers, Texas Rangers, vigilante groups, and ordinary civilians alike massacred between several hundred and five-thousand people of Mexican descent residing in the southern Texas borderlands between 1910 and 1920. The victims included […]