1.8 Million Latinos Were Deported from the US in the 1930s

Given Donald Trump's proposal to employ the military and law enforcement to deport 10 million undocumented immigrants, it's important to recall a past mass deportation: more than one million Latinos, half of them born in the U.S., were deported in the early 1930s by the Herbert Hoover administration as a response to resentment that "they" …

The Fun & Perplexing Cultural Differences Between Latin American Countries

The Fun & Perplexing Cultural Differences Between Latin American Countrieshttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-perplexing-cultural-differences-between-latin-lopez-larraquy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via One native of a Latin American country may be very religious and a devout churchgoer, whereas another might have internalized anti-clericalism that was once dominant in, say, Mexico. People in the US tend to over-generalize about Hispanic culture and not recognize nor acknowledge the many …

What Afro-Latinos Want You To Know

Pero Like: Time to talk about micro-aggressions like: "Arregla la raza." These attitudes are a legacy of colonialism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7EmIYdeKA

Exploring The Incredible Origins Of Central America (Mayan/Aztec Documentary)

Our History: Historian "Michael Wood visits Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico in Central America to study the history. The continuing legacy of the Maya and the Aztec civilizations, societies which developed independently of the Old World. Look in the 16th and 17th centuries, and which continue to survive despite the spread of consumer values from North …

A Brief History of Central America

Sebastian Ioan: "Central America - gorgeous, exciting and troubled. This is one of the most interesting places on Earth and yet most of us barely have a vague understanding of what this region is all about. This is not a single country, of course, but the history of the nations that live here is strongly …

1980s: Britain Wins the Falklands War

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-1913) served from 1979 until 1990. She was called "the Iron Lady" because of her tough exterior, and her belief that British people had grown soft and needed a swift kick in the derriere. She believed strongly in conservative causes. One of her most iconic victories was when she went …

Earth Is Currently Experiencing A 6th Mass Extinction

60 Minutes: "Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need “five more Earths” to maintain our current way of life... In what year will the human population grow too large for the earth to sustain? 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3.5 billion people were sustainable, but in …

The Dulles Brothers and Their Secret World War in the 1950s

Nowadays their name is known only as an airport near Washington, DC. Once in the 1950s and early 1960s, they were very famous as architects of America's aggressive cold war policies in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Vietnam, and the "Belgium" Congo. John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State under President Eisenhower. His brother Allen Dulles was …

Essential Questions on Russian Revolution, Khans, Cold War, Ataturk, ETC

Crash Course has now posted "office hours" on Youtube for many of its courses, primarily for students facing E-O-G or AP tests. For world history, host John Green and social studies teacher Cathy Keller answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0v5ZvZrVQ&t=538s 06:02 Causes and effects of the Russian revolution 15:55 Who was Genghis Khan and how was …

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ended US War With Mexico, Brought New Lands into the Union, and Set Nation on Path to Civil War

In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, "officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic," brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). It also gave advocates of slavery a new opportunity to spread the practice into new areas, and alter the …