¡Viva la Revolución! An Educator's Guide to the Mexican Revolution

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): “The Storm that Swept Mexico” http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storm-that-swept-mexico/classroom/ \\ Lesson Plans: Revolutionary Women \\ Lesson Plans: Revolutionary Art \\ Lesson Plans: Revolutionary Leaders University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute: “Resources for Teaching About the Border” http://resourcesforteachingabouttheborder.wordpress.com/ University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Teaching & Learning: “A Virtual Teacher’s Institute on the Mexican Revolution” http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=62602Lesson Plan: The Mexican Revolution and the Borderlands \\ Lesson Plan: Why Was There a Revolution in Mexico? \\ Lesson Plan: Pershing, Pancho, and the Photographs \\ Lesson Plan: Mexican Labor in the 1920s

An Educator’s Guide to the Mexican Revolution

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¡Viva la Revolución! An Educator's Guide to the Mexican Revolution

Published on Feb 24, 2014

UNMLAII

The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important events of the 20th century. The first revolution of the century, it’s a narrative that is at times complex, complicated, and perhaps even convoluted. While there is no way to calculate the exact number of causalities, historians estimate that one million people were killed during the Revolution. Some even say the loss of life was closer to two million. There is no question the Revolution irrevocably changed the course of Mexican history, but it also had a significant impact on the United States. More than one million Mexican refugees entered the United States attempting to escape the death and destruction wrought by the Revolution. Despite this impact, the topic of the Mexican Revolution, if taught at all, is only briefly addressed in classrooms or textbooks. As the first revolution caught on film, available resources allow students to actually see the people and events that would forever change North America.

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