What started as a commemoration of Mexico’s victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, has become a yearly tradition of celebrating Mexico and Mexican culture. It has become a tradition observed much differently in the United States versus Mexico (learn more about tha...
By William B. Taylor, author of Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
I didn’t plan to write Fugitive Freedom. This was partly because the project that preceded it seemed endless. But when I finally finished Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A His...