Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Brandon Morgan, Ph.D.

Associate Dean and History Instructor

Central New Mexico Community College

In Raid and Reconciliation, Brandon Morgan examines the story of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico and shows that violence was integral to the modern capitalist development that shaped the border. Raid and Reconciliation provides new insights into the Mexican Revolution and sheds light on the connections between violence and modernization. Lessons from this border story continue to resonate into today’s debates about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Dr. Brandon Morgan is Associate Dean for History, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Native American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Communication at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), where he has taught since the fall of 2009. Dr. Morgan authored The History of New Mexico, a free, open, digital textbook used at CNM and other New Mexico universities, colleges and high schools. He also supported the formation of CNM’s Latin American Studies associate’s degree program through a partnership with the University of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute. That partnership includes Study Abroad programs to Antigua, Guatemala, and Mexico City.

 Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, was published by the University of Nebraska Press  nebraskapress.unl.edu in August 2024.

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