Television
Television: A PBS documentary looks at the conflict over 500,000 square miles of land and its consequences.
Sept. 11, 1998
Politics
Culture: State Sen. Polanco asks Californians to help enhance memorial to Mexican American war veterans.
March 24, 1999
California
Retired judge Frederick Aguirre has dedicated the last several years of his life to researching and documenting the pivotal — and largely unknown — role Mexican Americans from Orange County played in U.S. military history.
June 8, 2019
The Mexican-American War of remade the U.S. and Mexico — and the much-debated border that separates the two countries. But it remains a relatively overshadowed conflict in American history. In Montebello, a group of men and women try to educate people by reenacting a key battle.
Jan. 25, 2020
At the heart of the protest is the controversial plan to move an iconic memorial dedicated to men and women of Mexican descent who gave their lives in service to their country.
May 31, 2022
Last Saturday’s Chicano Moratorium and the activities of Catolicos por La Raza dramatize the gulf which exists between the traditional-minded Mexican-Americans and the young activists.
March 6, 1970
Opinion
Mexican American war vets and Eastside teachers did more for Mexican Americans than a small protest.
March 12, 2008
Archives
Television news images of yellow ribbons clinging from homes in East Los Angeles and Huntsville, Texas, as two Mexican American families anxiously await word about their captured sons in Serbia, raise anew an old question: Why has the ubiquitous and courageous participation of Latinos in America’s wars eluded public recognition?
April 26, 1999
World & Nation
Legacies: Ambitious project comes to L.A. to videotape aging veterans. ‘I found myself when I served my country,’ one says.
May 27, 2002
The 180-year-old Adobe Flores in South Pasadena is one of the last remaining structures from the time that Southern California was part of Mexico.
July 4, 2023