Mexican immigration history in Western U.S.

Posted on 22 December 2009   |   by Wendy Norris   |   Print This Post Print This Post

In nine minutes flat, amateur New Mexico historian Tom Miles explains Mexican immigration into the Western U.S. from the 1400s. The video is a part of the Albuquerque History and Cultural Timeline.

It’s a fascinating description of our 600 years of intertwined national interests. Nice work.

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Wendy Norris is the editor and publisher of Western Citizen. I was named a 2010-11 Knight Fellow and will be attending Stanford University to develop Web and mobile civic engagement applications through persuasive technologies. I have had the good fortune to twice be named a Knight Digital Media Center fellow for studies in news entrepreneurship at the USC-Annenberg School for Communications and multimedia reporting at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In 2010, I was also designated an H.F. Guggenheim Fellow at CUNY’s John Jay College Center for Media, Crime and Justice for a series of stories on domestic terrorism at women’s health centers. Contact me.

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