Chapter 9
Video Resources
- This video shows the town of Guelatao, birthplace of Benito Juárez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R71rZtSwqSQ (4:30)
- This archival film footage shows President Porfirio Díaz at the inauguration of the Tehuantepec railroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOYC_-xTVY (8:25)
- This video features Porfirio Díaz addressing Thomas Edison (in Spanish) via a cylinder recorder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFnva9G1F90 (2:15)
- This video discusses the strikes at Cananea and Río Blanco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJcaogpkO8 (01:00)
- This fragment of the PBS documentary The Storm that Swept Mexico illustrates circumstances of the poor majority under the Porfiriato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWcgOcvgV0 (04:00-18:15)
Links
- This website provides an overview of the Reforma Laws: http://inside.sfuhs.org/dept/history/Mexicoreader/Chapter4/lareforma.htm
- This website contains founding documents and constitutions, including the liberal 1857 Constitution: http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/02/the-history-of-the-mexican-constitution/
- This website contains Ponciano Arriaga's address at the 1856 constitutional convention: https://jasoncdyck.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/arriaga-ponciano_congress.pdf
- This website discusses photographs and photography from the nineteenth century in Mexico: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/photography_mexico/
- This website contains a collection of portraits from the nineteenth century in Mexico: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/mex/searchterm/Vault%20Folio-2%20F1213%20.l45/mode/exact
- This website, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, features biographic information and artwork by José Guadalupe Posada: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4707
- This website contains digital copies of the opposition paper Regeneración: http://archivomagon.net/periodicos/regeneracion-1900-1918/
- This website contains the famous painting by Manet of the execution of Maximilian and two of his Mexican generals: http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/44/index.html
- This website features a series of history books written for children. Take special note of the cover art by José Guadalupe Posada: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/mex/searchterm/F1226.F74%201899/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/
- This website contains a collection of photographs of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Mexico: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/mex/searchterm/Ag1982.0028/mode/exact
- This website contains a collection of photographs of the Cananea strike: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/mex/searchterm/Ag1983.0282/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/
- This website features of collection of photographs related to the exploration and development of oil in early-twentieth century Mexico: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/mex/searchterm/oil/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/