In the Press
- Mantienen viva la memoria histórica de víctimas mexicanas en el sur de Texas – La Raza Chicago (September 12, 2024)
- Actitudes racistas se notan más después de la revolución de Texas: Historiadora – El Siglo de Torreón (August 14, 2024)
- ¿Qué fue el Plan de San Diego y cómo se relaciona con la violencia racial en Texas? – El Siglo de Torreón (August 16, 2024)
- Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 – Glasstire (May 25, 2024)
- How we reported on the Texas Rangers and a historical South Texas slaying – The Washington Post (May 15, 2024)
- “‘La matanza’ de mexicoamericanos en Texas, una década que las víctimas se niegan a olvidar” – Aristegui Noticias (April 2, 2024)
- ‘La Matanza,’ decade of anti-Mexican-American murders in Texas, examined in exhibit at OLLU – San Antonio Express News (March 14, 2024)
- “Reign of racial terror in Texas targeting Latinos not widely known, historians say” – KSAT News (March 8, 2024)
- ‘This is U.S. History’ — Exhibit ‘Life & Death on the Border’ sheds light on state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans in Texas – Fronteras, TPR News (January 5, 2024)
- “Traveling exhibition ‘Life and Death on the Border’ shines light on South Texas tragedy” – San Antonio Current ( December 15, 2023)
- “Ayala: ‘Refusing to Forget’ comes to OLLU with a powerhouse exhibit on border violence” – San Antonio Express News ( November 10, 2023 )
- “Refusing to Forget seeks oral histories of Mexican Americans in South Texas” – San Antonio Report (November 9, 2023)
- “Pionera Activista Jovita Idar celebrada en Moneda” – Radio Bilingue (September 18, 2023)
- ‘Killed Without Cause’ – The Progressive Magazine (August 10, 2023)
- “Memorials to racial violence face resistance in U.S.” – Axios (April 18, 2023)
- “As the Texas Rangers Celebrate Their 200th Anniversary, Descendants of the Lawmen’s Victims Seek a Reckoning” – Dallas Observer (February 15, 2023)
- “Separating Fact From Fiction in the Texas Rangers’ Bloody History” – Austin Chronicle ( February 2, 2023)
- “Opinion: The Texas Rangers Bicentennial Is a Time to Reflect, Not Celebrate Mythology” – Texas Monthly (December 7, 2022)
- “Latino professor wins John Lewis Award for spotlighting history of racial violence” – NBC News (December 2, 2022)
- “A Century Later, Historians Revisit a Texas Massacre” – The Wall Street Journal (November 21, 2022)
- “US Army bullets unexpectedly found at 1918 Mexico border massacre site” – New Scientist (October 25, 2022)
- “Fronteras: Anthology examines the forgotten history of state-sanctioned attacks against ethnic Mexicans along the southern border” – TPR Fronteras (June 17, 2022)
- “Critical Race Theory Panic Is Stopping Teachers from Teaching About Juneteenth” – Vice News (June 17, 2022)
- “Grant helps spread forgotten history of racial violence against Mexican Americans” – NBC News (April 20, 2022)
- “Los Diablos Tejanos: An Honest Look at the Texas Rangers” – The Common Reader (January 31, 2022)
- “They were forced to repeat first grade three times in the 1950s. Soon, Texas students might not even know about them” – CNN (August 11, 2021)
- “Texas Lt. Gov. Says State History Museum No Place for History” – Mother Jones (July 2, 2021)
- “What is critical race theory? Explaining the discipline that Texas’ governor wants to ‘abolish’” – The Texas Tribune (June 22, 2021)
- “The bright side of a bad Texas history bill? It’s too late to whitewash the past.” – The Washington Post(June 4, 2021)
- “In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism” – The Washington Post (June 3, 2021)
- “Texas educators worry bill limiting the teaching of current events and historic racism would ‘whitewash history’” – The Texas Tribune (May 26, 2021)
- “Texas’ divisive bill limiting how students learn about current events and historic racism passed by Senate” – The Texas Tribune (May 22, 2021)
- “Historians, parents say Texas bill limiting instruction about race hurt students” – CBS Austin (May 21, 2021)
- “Historians decry Texas bill that would restrict school lessons on race, racism” – Houston Chronicle (May 20, 2021)
- “A removed statue dredges up racism against blacks, Latinos in Texas Rangers’ history” by NBC News (June 9, 2020)
- “The Lone Legislator” by Latino USA (June 17, 2020)
- “A Century Agom One Lawmaker Went After the Most Powerful Cops in Texas. Then They Went After Him.” by Mother Jones (July 22, 2020)
- “‘White Supremacy’ was behind child separations – and Trump officials went along, critics say” by NBC News (August 22, 2020)
- “The ‘Forgotten’ History of Anti-Latino Violence In The U.S.” by WBUR-FM (November 25, 2019)
- “Maryland House speaker says board ‘missed the point’ over her objection to 1964 Civil War plaque” by The Washington Post (October 14, 2019)
- “‘I Cry All The Time.’ A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition” by TIME (September 27, 2019)
- “‘Porvenir, Texas’ details massacre of Mexican Americans by U.S. soldiers, rangers” by NBC News (September 27, 2019)
- “What the Border’s History of Racist Violence Tells Us About the El Paso Shooting” by Mother Jones (August 13, 2019)
- “Recounting Historical Violence Against Ethic Mexicans” by NPR (August 9, 2019)
- “The El Paso shooting is exactly what descendants of a 1915 massacre at the US-Mexico border had warned about” by CNN (August 8, 2019)
- “From El Paso to the War on Terror, the Dangers of Historical Amnesia” by The Intercept (August 7, 2019)
- “El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain” by Associated Press (August 7, 2019)
- “Domestic Terrorism in Wake of the Weekend Mass Shootings” by WBUR-FM (August 6, 2019)
- “Their ancestors were slain a century ago along the U.S. Mexican border. They say now is the time to retell the horror” by CNN (July 20, 2019)
- “‘True Justice’ explores lawyer who defends death row inmates” by The Washington Post (June 24, 2019)
- “The border wall isn’t just a dividing line – it’s a monument against racial progress” by The Guardian (April 25, 2019)
- “The Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep – and Law Enforcement is Part of it” by The Intercept (April 23, 2019)
- “100 years later, anti-Mexican violence still casts a shadow on Texas” by Austin 360 (April 5, 2019)
- “Two old Rangers have their faults but are still fun to watch” by Houston Chronicle (April 5, 2019)
- “Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic” by The Saturday Evening Post (March 13, 2019)
- “Lynch Mobs Killed Latinos Across the West. The Fight to Remember these Atrocities is Just Starting” by The New York Times (March 2, 2019)
- “Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the ‘forgotten dead’ in Texas history” by San Antonio Express-News (February 23, 2019)
- “The Crisis on the Border You Didn’t Learn About in School” By Mother Jones (December 29, 2018)
- “Refusing to Forget: Monica Muñoz Martinez Uncovers America’s History at the Border” by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (November 2018)
- “Remembering the Porvenir Massacre More than 100 Years Later” by Marfa Public Radio (November 30, 2018)
- “Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by The Texas Rangers” by Texas Observer (November 26, 2018)
- “Former Grad Student Talks Racial Violence in Texas” by Yale Daily News (November 7, 2018)
- “Author talks Race, History” by The Collegian (October 17, 2018)
- “Handling History: Scholars focus on Violent Chapter from Texas’ Past” by Austin American Statesman (September 27, 2018)
- “Texas has History of Family Separations, Deportations” By Austin American Statesman (Septemeber 25, 2018)
- “The Border and the American Imagination” by The Baffler (July 2, 2018)
- “Memorializing African American Lynching Victims is Past Due. But it must be only a start.” by The Washington Post (May 13, 2018)
- “A Century After the Porvenir Massacre, Remembering One of Texas’ Darkest Days” by Texas Observer (January 31, 2018)
- “State historical marker for ‘La Matanza 1915’ to be unveiled” by Rio Grande Guardian (October 14, 2017)
- “Texas to recognize thousands of South Texas descendants of Mexican Americans murdered by Texas Rangers during Matanza (Massacre) of 1915 that took place in the Valley, says Rep. Canales” by Edinburg Politics (October 12, 2017)
- “History of Racism Against Mexican-Americans Clouds Texas Immigration Law” by NBC News (June 3, 2017)
- “America’s Lost History of Border Violence” by Slate (May 5, 2016
- “Refusing to Forget” by Process History (May 3, 2016)
- “Exhibit to shed light on Mexican-American murders” by Houston Chronicle (February 5, 2016)
- “Exhibit explores Texas Rangers’ violence in Hispanic S. Texas” by San Antonio Express-News (January 31, 2016)
- “The Texas Rangers Killed Hundreds of Hispanic Americans during the Mexican Revolution” by KUT 90.5 FM (January 29, 2016)
- “1910-1920. Vida y Muerte en la Frontera” by El Mañana (January 24, 2016)
- “Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas” by The Guardian (January 22, 2016)
- “Museum exhibit explores border’s bloody past” by El Paso Times (January 16, 2016)
2024
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2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2024
- Mantienen viva la memoria histórica de víctimas mexicanas en el sur de Texas – La Raza Chicago (September 12, 2024)
- Actitudes racistas se notan más después de la revolución de Texas: Historiadora – El Siglo de Torreón (August 14, 2024)
- ¿Qué fue el Plan de San Diego y cómo se relaciona con la violencia racial en Texas? – El Siglo de Torreón (August 16, 2024)
- Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 – Glasstire (May 25, 2024)
- How we reported on the Texas Rangers and a historical South Texas slaying – The Washington Post (May 15, 2024)
- “‘La matanza’ de mexicoamericanos en Texas, una década que las víctimas se niegan a olvidar” – Aristegui Noticias (April 2, 2024)
- ‘La Matanza,’ decade of anti-Mexican-American murders in Texas, examined in exhibit at OLLU – San Antonio Express News (March 14, 2024)
- “Reign of racial terror in Texas targeting Latinos not widely known, historians say” – KSAT News (March 8, 2024)
- ‘This is U.S. History’ — Exhibit ‘Life & Death on the Border’ sheds light on state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans in Texas – Fronteras, TPR News (January 5, 2024)
2023
- “Traveling exhibition ‘Life and Death on the Border’ shines light on South Texas tragedy” – San Antonio Current ( December 15, 2023)
- “Ayala: ‘Refusing to Forget’ comes to OLLU with a powerhouse exhibit on border violence” – San Antonio Express News ( November 10 , 2023 )
- “Refusing to Forget seeks oral histories of Mexican Americans in South Texas” – San Antonio Report (November 9, 2023)
- “Pionera Activista Jovita Idar celebrada en Moneda” – Radio Bilingue (September 18, 2023)
- ‘Killed Without Cause’ – The Progressive Magazine (August 10, 2023)
- “Memorials to racial violence face resistance in U.S.” – Axios (April 18, 2023)
- “As the Texas Rangers Celebrate Their 200th Anniversary, Descendants of the Lawmen’s Victims Seek a Reckoning” – Dallas Observer (February 15, 2023)
- “Separating Fact From Fiction in the Texas Rangers’ Bloody History” – Austin Chronicle ( February 2, 2023)
2022
- “Opinion: The Texas Rangers Bicentennial Is a Time to Reflect, Not Celebrate Mythology” – Texas Monthly (December 7, 2022)
- “Latino professor wins John Lewis Award for spotlighting history of racial violence” – NBC News (December 2, 2022)
- “A Century Later, Historians Revisit a Texas Massacre” – The Wall Street Journal (November 21, 2022)
- “US Army bullets unexpectedly found at 1918 Mexico border massacre site” – New Scientist (October 25, 2022)
- “Fronteras: Anthology examines the forgotten history of state-sanctioned attacks against ethnic Mexicans along the southern border” – TPR Fronteras (June 17, 2022)
- “Critical Race Theory Panic Is Stopping Teachers from Teaching About Juneteenth” – Vice News (June 17, 2022)
- “Grant helps spread forgotten history of racial violence against Mexican Americans” – NBC News (April 20, 2022)
- “Los Diablos Tejanos: An Honest Look at the Texas Rangers” – The Common Reader (January 31, 2022)
2021
- They were forced to repeat first grade three times in the 1950s. Soon, Texas students might not even know about them” – CNN (August 11, 2021)
- “Texas Lt. Gov. Says State History Museum No Place for History” – Mother Jones (July 2, 2021)
- “What is critical race theory? Explaining the discipline that Texas’ governor wants to ‘abolish’” – The Texas Tribune (June 22, 2021)
- “The bright side of a bad Texas history bill? It’s too late to whitewash the past.” – The Washington Post(June 4, 2021)
- “In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism” – The Washington Post (June 3, 2021)
- “Texas educators worry bill limiting the teaching of current events and historic racism would ‘whitewash history’” – The Texas Tribune (May 26, 2021)
- “Texas’ divisive bill limiting how students learn about current events and historic racism passed by Senate” – The Texas Tribune (May 22, 2021)
- “Historians, parents say Texas bill limiting instruction about race hurt students” – CBS Austin (May 21, 2021)
- “Historians decry Texas bill that would restrict school lessons on race, racism” – Houston Chronicle (May 20, 2021)
2020
- “A removed statue dredges up racism against blacks, Latinos in Texas Rangers’ history” – NBC News (June 9, 2020)
- “The Lone Legislator” – Latino USA (June 17, 2020)
- “A Century Agom One Lawmaker Went After the Most Powerful Cops in Texas. Then They Went After Him.” – Mother Jones (July 22, 2020)
- “‘White Supremacy’ was behind child separations – and Trump officials went along, critics say” – NBC News (August 22, 2020)
2019
- “The ‘Forgotten’ History of Anti-Latino Violence In The U.S.” – WBUR-FM (November 25, 2019)
- “Maryland House speaker says board ‘missed the point’ over her objection to 1964 Civil War plaque” – The Washington Post (October 14, 2019)
- “‘I Cry All The Time.’ A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition” – TIME (September 27, 2019)
- “‘Porvenir, Texas’ details massacre of Mexican Americans by U.S. soldiers, rangers” – NBC News (September 27, 2019)
- “What the Border’s History of Racist Violence Tells Us About the El Paso Shooting” – Mother Jones (August 13, 2019)
- “Recounting Historical Violence Against Ethic Mexicans” – NPR (August 9, 2019)
- “The El Paso shooting is exactly what descendants of a 1915 massacre at the US-Mexico border had warned about” – CNN (August 8, 2019)
- “From El Paso to the War on Terror, the Dangers of Historical Amnesia” – The Intercept (August 7, 2019)
- “El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain” – Associated Press (August 7, 2019)
- “Domestic Terrorism in Wake of the Weekend Mass Shootings” – WBUR-FM (August 6, 2019)
- “Their ancestors were slain a century ago along the U.S. Mexican border. They say now is the time to retell the horror” – CNN (July 20, 2019)
- “‘True Justice’ explores lawyer who defends death row inmates” – The Washington Post (June 24, 2019)
- “The border wall isn’t just a dividing line – it’s a monument against racial progress” – The Guardian (April 25, 2019)
- “The Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep – and Law Enforcement is Part of it” – The Intercept (April 23, 2019)
- “100 years later, anti-Mexican violence still casts a shadow on Texas” – Austin 360 (April 5, 2019)
- “Two old Rangers have their faults but are still fun to watch” – Houston Chronicle (April 5, 2019)
- “Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic” – The Saturday Evening Post (March 13, 2019)
- “Lynch Mobs Killed Latinos Across the West. The Fight to Remember these Atrocities is Just Starting” – The New York Times (March 2, 2019)
- “Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the ‘forgotten dead’ in Texas history” – San Antonio Express-News (February 23, 2019)
2018
- “The Crisis on the Border You Didn’t Learn About in School” – Mother Jones (December 29, 2018)
- “Refusing to Forget: Monica Muñoz Martinez Uncovers America’s History at the Border” – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (November 2018)
- “Remembering the Porvenir Massacre More than 100 Years Later” – Marfa Public Radio (November 30, 2018)
- “Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by The Texas Rangers” – Texas Observer (November 26, 2018)
- “Former Grad Student Talks Racial Violence in Texas” – Yale Daily News (November 7, 2018)
- “Author talks Race, History” – The Collegian (October 17, 2018)
- “Handling History: Scholars focus on Violent Chapter from Texas’ Past” – Austin American Statesman (September 27, 2018)
- “Texas has History of Family Separations, Deportations” – Austin American Statesman (Septemeber 25, 2018)
- “The Border and the American Imagination” – The Baffler (July 2, 2018)
- “Memorializing African American Lynching Victims is Past Due. But it must be only a start.” – The Washington Post (May 13, 2018)
- “A Century After the Porvenir Massacre, Remembering One of Texas’ Darkest Days” – Texas Observer (January 31, 2018)
2017
- “State historical marker for ‘La Matanza 1915’ to be unveiled” – Rio Grande Guardian (October 14, 2017)
- “Texas to recognize thousands of South Texas descendants of Mexican Americans murdered by Texas Rangers during Matanza (Massacre) of 1915 that took place in the Valley, says Rep. Canales” – Edinburg Politics (October 12, 2017)
- “History of Racism Against Mexican-Americans Clouds Texas Immigration Law” – NBC News (June 3, 2017)
2016
- “America’s Lost History of Border Violence” – Slate (May 5, 2016
- “Refusing to Forget” – Process History (May 3, 2016)
- “Exhibit to shed light on Mexican-American murders” – Houston Chronicle (February 5, 2016)
- “Exhibit explores Texas Rangers’ violence in Hispanic S. Texas” – San Antonio Express-News (January 31, 2016)
- “The Texas Rangers Killed Hundreds of Hispanic Americans during the Mexican Revolution” – KUT 90.5 FM (January 29, 2016)
- “1910-1920. Vida y Muerte en la Frontera” – El Mañana (January 24, 2016)
- “Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas” – The Guardian (January 22, 2016)
- “Museum exhibit explores border’s bloody past” – El Paso Times (January 16, 2016)
