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1. General Sites                                                  go to top of page


 

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    • Yahoo Mexico news excellent resource for current news items (in English) on Mexico
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2. The Mexican Revolution 1910-1920  go to top of page

 

General narrative outline Background

Events

Biographies

        Pancho Villa

        Zapata

 

 

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3. Documents of the Mexican revolution go to top of page

 

  • Plan de Ayala, Nov 28, 1911. Click to go to full size facsimileExcerpt from Barbarous Mexico by John Kenneth Turner from Barbarous Mexico by John Kenneth Turner (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1910), pp. 120 137 Beware: the print is tiny!! In Historical Text Archive
  • James Creelman on Porfirio Diaz Published in Pearson's Magazine in 1908 and led Francisco I. Madero to enter the political arena as a presidential candidate. Tiny print here too!! In Historical Text Archive
  • The Plan de Ayala - English text of Emiliano Zapata's declaration proclaiming Francisco Madero a traitor and ordering a third of all hacienda lands to be redistributed to the peasants. From John Womack, Jr, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1968, 400-404) In Historical Text Archive. In Spanish original: Plan de Ayala   §
  • Villa Phone Call, Torreón March 1914
  • Mexico: 1917 Constitution (Becker version)
  • Octavio Fernández recuerda Entrevista realizada por Olivia Gall en Agosto de 1982
  • Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros - Robert Runyon's photographic account of events in Northeastern Mexico from 1913 through 1916.  Three hundred fifty unique images in the Runyon Collection document one chapter of the revolution which Runyon witnessed in Matamoros, Monterrey, Ciudad Victoria, and the Texas border area and surrounding area.
  • Postcards of the Mexican Revolution - touches upon how a great deal of Mexico's history for the decade of 1910-1920 was recorded by photographs mass produced on postcards.

 

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4. Mexico after the Revolution - politics  go to top of page

 

General narrative outline Politics

Salinas

 

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5. Mexico after the Revolution: Revolts, coups and control  go to top of page

 

Dirty War

Chiapas

and Zapatistas

 

 

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