OMAHA — A Cinco de Mayo commemoration, free and open to the public, is to be held Saturday at the South Omaha Museum of Immigrant History. Historically, the day marks when a small but mighty Mexican army triumphed over invading French troops in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Though France later would […] The post Omaha immigrant history museum event aims to ‘set the record straight’ on Cinco de Mayo appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.
A group called Amigos de Parque Zaragoza is hosting a 90th anniversary celebration on Saturday for the park, which has served as a hub for the city's Mexican American community.
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The only times that I an American of Mexican descent remember learning about Mexican history in school are during discussions of ancient civilizations and science (the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula). I don’t know if things have changed since then. However, given that Mexico is one of our two closest neighbors, that Mexican Americans are by far the largest group of Latinx people living in the U.S. (nearly 37 million as of 2018),
and that 2021 marks 200 years since the end of the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821), it never hurts to learn a little more with Mexican history books!