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Why does Latino history matter? In her presidential address to the 2006 Organization of American Historians convention, Vicki L. Ruiz assesses the state of that field, highlighting sources, debates, and themes. Ruiz emphasizes three historical moments pivotal to reimagining an American narrative with Latinos as meaningful actors—1848 (the U.S.-Mexican War), 1898 (the Filipino-Cuban-Spanish-American War), and 1948 (the political activism of the Latino G.I. generation). From carving out a community in St. Augustine in 1565 to reflecting on colonialism and liberty in the 1890s to fighting for civil rights in the courts of the 1940s, Spanish-speaking peoples, Ruiz shows, have made U.S. history within and beyond the nation's borders.
Claudio Saunt explores the ways Creek and Cherokee leaders seized on evolving distinctions between myth and history to tell their peoples' stories of origin to themselves and their Euro-American adversaries. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cherokees and Creeks invoked, exploited, and shaped Western fantasies about myth to preserve their land title. Similarly, they drew on Western conceptions of history to defend their nations' sovereignty and to cultivate nationalism among their own people. In the hands of Indians, myth and history became powerful weapons in a struggle against the United States.
Dorothea Lange has been much studied as a photographer, but the content of her work has rarely been incorporated into our understanding of the New Deal. . . .

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