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Latino History Unveiled: The Overlooked Stories of Hispanic America
More than one in four Americans live in territory that once belonged to Mexico. This essay traces how treaties, courts, and maps changed flags—but not always the people—arguing for policy and planning that honors place-based continuity.
The Hidden Hemisphere: How Spanish America Built the United States—and Why We Forgot
Every nation is a story told about land. The United States has preferred the tidy novella: thirteen British colonies, a heroic revolution, then Manifest Destiny. But walk any city with your ears on—Los Angeles, San Antonio, Santa Fe—and the place names remind you that the harmony was written in.
The Forgotten Republics of Light: Reading America Through the Ghost of New Spain
Beneath every American highway lies the dust of empires that spoke in another grammar. The Spanish colonial past offers an alternative genealogy where identity was not binary but layered—a continental experiment from Florida to California that still defines our moral noon.