Signature Event

Mexican Witness

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 6:30pm
Central Library
In Person
Between 1942 and 1964, as many as 300,000 Mexican laborers—called braceros—were employed as farmhands or railroad workers in the United...
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Signature Event
Historian Amy S. Greenberg discusses her book about the controversial war that divided the nation even as it gave the U.S. control of the vast Southwest.

A Wicked War

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 6:30pm
Central Library
In Person
Long viewed as unjust and mercenary, the Mexican-American War allowed the U.S. to seize control of vast expanses of the Southwest, paved the way for t...
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