History prof thinks more of us should know about the 1910 Mexican Revolution
Pancho Villa's hard-riding vaqueros and the federal troops they vanquished 100 years ago during the violent Mexican Revolution are never far from Manuel Urbina's thoughts.
Urbina, a College of the Mainland history professor, has taped interviews with revolutionaries who fought alongside Villa and other factions that he keeps in a private museum he built next to his south Houston home.
Built with imported Mexican tiles and furnished with 36 colonial bookshelves carved with the Aztec Eagle, the two-story museum is larger than Urbina's home. He plans to nearly double the size to contain an expanding collection of Mexican history he has accumulated over 43 years.
Artifacts from the Mexican Revolution, including Villa's death mask and what may be the only complete collection of paper money issued by Villa, dominate Urbina's collection. It troubles him that most people north of the border know so little about the first revolution of the 20th century.
It's especially troubling this year, because Mexico is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1910 Revolution....
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Urbina, a College of the Mainland history professor, has taped interviews with revolutionaries who fought alongside Villa and other factions that he keeps in a private museum he built next to his south Houston home.
Built with imported Mexican tiles and furnished with 36 colonial bookshelves carved with the Aztec Eagle, the two-story museum is larger than Urbina's home. He plans to nearly double the size to contain an expanding collection of Mexican history he has accumulated over 43 years.
Artifacts from the Mexican Revolution, including Villa's death mask and what may be the only complete collection of paper money issued by Villa, dominate Urbina's collection. It troubles him that most people north of the border know so little about the first revolution of the 20th century.
It's especially troubling this year, because Mexico is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1910 Revolution....