Brandon Morgan

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Historian of New Mexico and Latin America, father of amazing human beings, indebted to my better half. Author of Raid and Revolution, University of Nebraska Press (2024).
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Raid and Revolutionhttps://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496237774/
Brandon MorganMar 9

110 years ago today, General Francisco "Pancho" Villa attacked Columbus, NM, with roughly 500 men at his command. Here's the text of the speech I delivered at last year's anniversary memorial in Columbus: https://medium.com/us-mexico-border-issues/seeking-healing-in-times-of-authoritarianism-d79ee46b8f6a

Let me know what you think, #Hist416

Seeking healing in times of authoritarianism

This is roughly the text of the keynote I delivered at the Columbus Historical Society Villa raid commemoration, March 8, 2025. The raid…

Medium
Brandon MorganFeb 19

New story in the Border Chronicle (in collaboration with the AZ Mirror) about invisible methods of border survelliance around the Tohono O’odham Nation:

https://www.theborderchronicle.com/hidden-in-plain-sight-surveillance-at-the-arizona-border/

#Hist416

Hidden in Plain Sight: Surveillance at the Arizona Border

From hidden license plate readers to AI-powered cameras, federal agents have built a vast monitoring network that stretches deep into Arizona.

The Border Chronicle
Brandon MorganFeb 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reyesk8/116059192318460488

I agree, and I think that her focus on the borderlands as a region relates to Ngai's comment about Line in the Sand being a "truly transnational" examination of the borderlands. To reiterate my earlier question, what makes a history "truly transnational," do you think? Why does it matter when studying borders and borderlands? #Hist416

Brandon MorganFeb 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arrichavez/116054814163539170

I love that quote from p. 8 because it emphasizes the painstaking effort required to locate stories of non-white folks in archives.

What does this say about the ways archives are organized and who they serve? What do you all think of Lim's (and St. John's) methods for locating the stories of marginalized people and of reading against the grain in records where they don't appear as central figures?

#Hist416

Brandon MorganJan 30
LauraJan 30
Baumgartner not only pulls a lot of her research from state and local archives, but also the work of other historians such as Kenneth Wiggins Porter. It is unfortunate that a lot of the stories he collected were not widely told when they were published because the U.S. wanted to not be portrayed in this way; that there was more freedom in Mexico than in the U.S. #Hist416
Brandon MorganJan 30
acabrera1Jan 30
#hist416 This book highlights how slavery wasn’t just a national issue but an international one. Relations between the U.S. and Mexico were clearly influenced by slavery and freedom in ways I hadn’t thought about before.
Brandon MorganJan 29
Joshua CasalesJan 28
This book (South to Freedom) feels like borderlands history because it follows people, laws, and ideas moving across the U.S.-Mexico border. Freedom itself becomes something negotiated between two nations. #Hist416
Show threadBrandon MorganJan 27

From the article:

"With apprehensions by Border Patrol at historic lows across the southern border and Laredo, the largest city in our area, being named by the FBI as the safest city in Texas and ranked the 13th safest city in the U.S. (all without a wall), it makes absolutely no sense to force a multibillion-dollar barrier system into our area. Walls will not stop people, but they will stop wildlife and disrupt our homes and community."

Brandon MorganJan 27

A piece by Elsa Hull, resident of San Ygnacio along the Texas-Nuevo Leon border, this morning in the Border Chronicle: https://www.theborderchronicle.com/more-than-a-river/

She points out the harm that additional walls and buoys will cause the delicate river ecosystem. #Hist416

More Than a River

Border Walls and Buoy Barriers Are Killing the Rio Grande. I Have a Front Row Seat.

The Border Chronicle
Brandon MorganJan 26

If you're interested, here is a post I created for my Intro to Historical Studies class. I used South to Freedom as an example of different ways to approach a close, yet relatively quick, reading of a scholarly monograph. I hope it's helpful! #Hist416

https://medium.com/intro-to-historical-study/how-i-apply-close-reading-strategies-5abaf4d9f0dd