The Last One: Paula Garcia de la Cruz
A few days ago, my aunt Paula García De La Cruz died. She was 86 years old. She was also
Puerto Rico Was the Homeland. New York Was the Borderland.
Something extraordinary happened in New York after World War II. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans left the island and
From the Civil War to Today: I Found the Missing Soldier in My Family
For years, I knew military service ran through my family, but I didn’t realize how far the line stretched. I
Molina, Corpus Christi: Its Struggles and Its Victories
A Different History of Molina The history of the Molina Addition is usually told as the history of a poor
The Man Who Built Uvalde — and Was Killed in the Town He Created
Most people who drive through Uvalde today probably do not know that the town began with a twenty-two-year-old Quaker from
The American Civil War along the Texas Border.
They may never make the movie, but this one deserves to be remembered. The strongest version is not “Tejanos also
Before the Perfect Game: The Little Giants Came Through Corpus Christi
Click on the image above for more on the Little Giants In August 1957, before they became world champions, before
The Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Early Sixties: Young and Mexican, a Musical Tour as Some of Us Knew It
Introduction More than a decade before Motown became a national symbol of Black music and Black-owned enterprise, Mexican-American musicians and
20% Jewish: a mystery to solve and two love stories as probabilities.
Meme had gone looking for an answer to a number. Almost twenty percent Jewish. The number sat there on the
San Antonio, Texas, early sixties, young and Mexican, a musical tour as some of us knew it.
San Antonio, Texas, Early Sixties: Young, Mexican, and TikTok Before TikTok Corpus Christi had its jukeboxes, radio stations, dances, and
At age 50, he packed up and moved the family across the river. Why? Ancieto Barrera
A factionalized family history based on the Barrera records, Starr County land records, and the history of the Garza War.
The Garza War: The Forgotten Tejano Rebellion Along the Rio Grande
For Savannah Bernal and Jorge Barrera Jr., who keep reading these old South Texas stories and giving me a reason
Starr County 1860 Census
With the help of ChatGPT and hours of work, we created the 1860 census for Starr County, Texas. If you
Camp Ringgold, Rio Grande City, the fort that Texas forgot.
Digital Edition My parents are from Starr County, and we visited our grandparents, our uncles, and our cousins, but I
Corpus Christi, Texas, early sixties, young and Mexican, a musical tour as some of us knew it.
I will be taking a short trip to Corpus, but this is the first of at least four musical tours
1927 – killing and forcing “Mexicans” to work was common in some counties in South Texas.
In South Texas in the 1920s, a Mexican laborer looking for work could find himself picking cotton for a farmer
Santiago & Meme School of Chuco Words — Lesson 1
Tonight’s lesson: We didn’t speak bad Spanish. We spoke our Spanish. Our parents gave us the words they knew. Some
