This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more
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 Bruce Hobson & Meizhu Lui October 20, 2025 |
 October 11, 2025 |
 Lee Ragsdale and Erick Nava Palomino September 29, 2025 |
 Rebecca Grant September 22, 2025 |
 A Play by David Haddad July 26, 2025 |
 Rebecca Eichler July 14, 2025 |
 Dr. Tomasso Fabbri May 12, 2025 |
 Harry Targ March 17, 2025 |
 Laura Carlsen March 10, 2025 |
 Omar S. Dahi March 3, 2025 |
 Joe Belden February 17, 2025 |
 José Alfredo Gutiérrez Falcón February 3, 2025 |
 Jeff Faux January 13, 2025 |
 Débora Poo October 14, 2024 |
 Fakhry Taha & Débora Poo October 12, 2024 |
 Lena Bartula August 19, 2024 |
 Vijay Prashad August 12, 2024 |
 Cynthia Yoder August 5, 2024 |
 Arturo Santamaria Gómez July 29, 2024 |
 Robert Meeropol July 22, 2024 |
 Bob Datz May 27, 2024 |
 Malin Jönsson May 13, 2024 |
 José Luis Granados Ceja & Kurt Hackbarth May 6, 2024 |
 Jeff Halper April 29, 2024 |
 Laura Carlsen April 15, 2024 |
 Nancy Fraser March 11, 2024 |
 Maribel Arciniega, Victoria Delgado & Sofia Martínez March 4, 2024 |
 Ron Paulson February 19, 2024 |
 Aleksandr Buzgalin & Ludmila Alexeevna February 12, 2024 |
 February 5, 2024 |
 Jeff Faux January 22, 2024 |
 Robin Hahnel January 15, 2024 |
 Lulú Guerrero Castro January 8, 2024 |
 Mario Fernández Zarza October 9, 2023 |
 Dr. Haywood Hall October 2, 2023 |
 Ercilia Sahores September 18, 2023 |
 Gregory Diamant September 11, 2023 |
 Discussion with author Christina Heatherton August 28, 2023 |
 Dylan Terrell August 21, 2023 |
 Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone July 10, 2023 |
 Yolanda Millan June 19, 2023 |
 Micky Metts June 5, 2023 |
 Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo May 1, 2023 |
 April 28, 2023 |
 Cliff DuRand & Bob Stone April 17, 2023 |
 Cliff DuRand April 10, 2023 |
 Joan Roelofs April 3, 2023 |
 John Ackerman March 27, 2023 |
 Aura Medina de Wit March 13, 2023 |
 Silvia Federici March 6, 2023 |
 David Stea February 27, 2023 |
 Pedro Gellert & First Secretary Fakhry Taha February 20, 2023 |
 Henry Veltmeyer February 13, 2023 |
 Camila Piñeiro Harnecker February 6, 2023 |
 February 2, 2023 |
Cliff DuRand & Bob Stone January 30, 2023 |
 Discussion with filmmaker Helen Yaffe January 26, 2023 |
 Marco Gómez January 23, 2023 |
 January 19, 2023 |
Cliff DuRand January 16, 2023 |
 January 12, 2023 |
 Margaret Flowers, Jerry Harris, Ajowa Ifateyo & Arturo Yarish January 9, 2023 |
 Andrés Ruggeri December 19, 2022 |
 Ron Aronson December 12, 2022 |
 Kurt Hackbarth December 5, 2022 |
 Ezequiel Mojica November 30, 2022 |
 Lauren Langman November 28, 2022 |
 Nancy Frazer November 21, 2022 |
 Phyllis Bennis November 14, 2022 |
 Carl Davidson October 31, 2022 |
 Harry Targ October 24, 2022 |
 Graciela Hernández October 19, 2022 |
 Grahame Russell October 17, 2022 |
 Everardo Rodríguez Gutiérrez October 5, 2022 |
 Ben Ptashnik & Victoria Collier October 3, 2022 |
 Nuria Lara Licea, Omar Andrei y José Luis Vargas Ramírez September 28, 2022 |
 September 26, 2022 |
 September 19, 2022 |
 Cliff DuRand September 12, 2022 |
 Jen Moore y Antonio Pacheco September 7, 2022 |
 Tom Rogers August 8, 2022 |
 Richard Smith August 1, 2022 |
 July 25, 2022 |
 Radhika Desai July 11, 2022 |
 Karina Gómez y Diego Mejía June 29, 2022 |
 Jason Stanford June 27, 2022 |
 Mayra de la Torre Martínez June 22, 2022 |
 Jerry Harris June 6, 2022 |
 Aleksandr Buzgalin May 30, 2022 |
 Victoria Bruce, Rebecca Eichler & Careen Shannon May 23, 2022 |
 Jalil Aragón May 18, 2022 |
 Bill Gallegos May 16, 2022 |
 José Andrés Fuentes González May 9, 2022 |
 Mario Hernández Peña May 4, 2022 |
 Andrés Jiménez & Helen Yaffe May 2, 2022 |
 Jerry Harris April 25, 2022 |
 Carl Davidson April 18, 2022 |
 Fred Pincus April 11, 2022 |
 Noam Chomsky & Bill Fletcher April 7, 2022 |
 Yolanda Millán April 6, 2022 |
 Norman Solomon April 4, 2022 |
 Ann Ferguson March 28, 2022 |
 Cesar Arias March 23, 2022 |
 Margaret McLaren March 21, 2022 |
 Margaret Flowers March 14, 2022 |
 Harry Targ March 14, 2022 |
 Mariana Macías Medellín March 9, 2022 |
 Silvia Federici March 7, 2022 |
 Lewis R. Gordon February 28, 2022 |
 Renata Ballesteros February 23, 2022 |
 Linda Alcoff & Charles Mills February 21, 2022 |
 Cherry Steinwender February 14, 2022 |
Henry Veltmeyer February 13, 2022 |
 Claudia Elvira Romero, February 9, 2022 |
 Joy James February 7, 2022 |
 Michael Hudson January 31, 2022 |
 Ron Aronson January 24, 2022 |
 Joe Belden January 17, 2022 |
 Jeff Faux, Doug Henwood, Cynthia Kaufman & Peter Kuznick January 10, 2022 |
 Jack Hammond December 20, 2021 |
 Kali Holloway December 13, 2021 |
 Discussion with filmmaker Yael Bridge December 6, 2021 |
 Violeta Núñez Rodríguez December 1, 2021 |
 Gerald Torres November 29, 2021 |
 Richard Smith November 22, 2021 |
 José Andrés Fuentes González November 17, 2021 |
 Dan Morris & Harry Targ November 15, 2021 |
 Nancy MacLean & David Schweickart November 8, 2021 |
 Jorge Luna Rico November 3, 2021 |
 Atahualpa Caldera Sosa November 1, 2021 |
 Steven Donziger, Marty Garbus & Andres Soto October 27, 2021 |
 Patrick Bond, Lucia Barcena, Manuel Pérez-Rocha & Paul Snelgrove October 25, 2021 |
 Ercilia Sahores October 20, 2021 |
 Precious Phiri & Ercilia Sahores October 18, 2021 |
 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz October 11, 2021 |
 Atahualpa Caldera Sosa October 6, 2021 |
 Meritxell Calderon Vargas & Rebecca Eichler, moderated by Careen Shannon October 4, 2021 |
 Russian economist & dissident Alexandr Buzgalin September 27, 2021 |
 September 22, 2021 |
 Andrew Bacevich September 20, 2021 |
 Medea Benjamin September 13, 2021 |
 Jaime Morales Hernández September 8, 2021 |
 Joe Belden & Cliff DuRand September 6, 2021 |
 Ellen Brown & Walt McRee August 30, 2021 |
 Gabriela Villavicencio August 25, 2021 |
 Bhaskar Sunkara August 23, 2021 |
 directed by Atahualpa Caldera Sosa August 16, 2021 |
 Cristina Caldera Muñoz August 11, 2021 |
 Gar Alperovitz August 9, 2021 |
 Film Screening & Discussion August 2, 2021 |
 Teresita Alcantara Díaz y Sergio Otth Silva July 28, 2021 |
 Al Campbell & Mark Ginsburg July 26, 2021 |
 Marcelo Vieta July 19, 2021 |
 Jerry Harris & Cliff DuRand July 12, 2021 |
 Bill Tabb July 5, 2021 |
 June 28, 2021 |
 Cynthia Kaufman June 21, 2021 |
 Alberto Aveleyra June 16, 2021 |
 John Lawrence June 14, 2021 |
 Javier Bravo & Bill Gallegos. Moderated by Meizhu Lui June 7, 2021 |
 Vijay Prashad May 31, 2021 |
 Melanie Bush & Carl Davidson May 24, 2021 |
 Manuel Chaparro Nava y Alberto Godínez May 19, 2021 |
 Michael Rivage-Seul & David Schweickart May 17, 2021 |
 Andrej Grubacic & Denis O’Hearn May 10, 2021 |
 Helen Yaffe May 3, 2021 |
 Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis April 26, 2021 |
 Juan Gerardo Domínguez April 21, 2021 |
 Ercilia Sahores & Oscar Ugarteche April 19, 2021 |
 Silvia Federici April 12, 2021 |
 Juan Gerardo Domínguez & Emily Kawano April 5, 2021 |
 Joanna Kafarowski March 29, 2021 |
 Rosana Álvarez, Rocio González, Ramón Jarquin & Mercedes Páramo March 24, 2021 |
 Jessica Gordon Nembhard March 22, 2021 |
 Stephanie Bratnick March 15, 2021 |
 Lic. Diego Leandro Lazo March 10, 2021 |
 Steve Fraser March 8, 2021 |
 David Barkin, Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia March 1, 2021 |
 Omar Farah & Vince Warren February 22, 2021 |
 Valeria S. Chapman & Harry Targ February 15, 2021 |
 Ronald Aronson February 8, 2021 |
 Mark Dworkin, Esteban Kelly & Melissa Young February 1, 2021 |
 Paco Gállego y Diego Leandro January 27, 2021 |
 Greg Albo & Stephen Maher January 25, 2021 |
 Michael Roberts January 18, 2021 |
 Bill Fletcher Jr. and Jane McAlevey January 11, 2021 |
 Fred Evans, Cliff DuRand & Lewis Gordon January 4, 2021 |
 Dario Azzellini & Nancy Holmstrom December 14, 2020 |
 Peter Kuznick December 7, 2020 |
 Maribel Arciniega y Mario Hernández December 2, 2020 |
 Margaret Flowers November 30, 2020 |
 Mauricio Betancourt, Fred Magdoff & Victor Wallis November 23, 2020 |
 Angelina Loera Mata y Pilar Quintanilla November 18, 2020 |
 Laura Carlsen & Jeff Faux November 16, 2020 |
 Cliff DuRand & Jerry Harris November 9, 2020 |
 Miguel Angel Escalona y Productores November 4, 2020 |
 Emily Kawano & Erella Shadmi October 26, 2020 |
 Ercilia Sahores y Oscar Ugarteche October 21, 2020 |
 Harry Targ October 19, 2020 |
 David Barkin & Gustavo Esteva October 12, 2020 |
 Vincent Hoogesteger October 7, 2020 |
 Malin Jönsson & Robert Scott October 5, 2020 |
 Walter Baier, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Sangeeta Kamat & Tarso Ramos September 28, 2020 |
 Atahualpa Caldera Sosa September 23, 2020 |
 David Bacon September 21, 2020 |
 Nuria Ciofalo & Mary Watkins September 14, 2020 |
 Margarita Gutiérrez Viscaíno September 9, 2020 |
 Rebecca M. Eichler September 7, 2020 |
 Vicente Navarro August 31, 2020 |
 Michael Lebowitz & Camila Pineiro Harnecker August 24, 2020 |
 Jesús Alberto Gutiérrez y Dylan Terrell August 19, 2020 |
 Andrés Eloy Ruiz & Sair Ramses Sira Méndez August 17, 2020 |
 Carl Davidson & Jerry Harris August 10, 2020 |
 Linda Alcoff & Charles W. Mills August 3, 2020 |
 Jose Ramon Cabanas, Al Campbell & Victor Wallis July 27, 2020 |
 Cliff DuRand July 26, 2020 |
 Bill Fletcher Jr. & Cynthia Kaufman July 20, 2020 |
 Ellen Brown July 13, 2020 |
 Leo Panitch July 6, 2020 |
 Jeff Faux June 29, 2020 |
 Betsy Bowman June 22, 2020 |
 Tony Smith June 15, 2020 |
 Marco A. Gómez Gómez, Lucero Jiménez Guzmán & Celia Pacheco Reyes June 8, 2020 |
 Laura Carlsen & Hector Ulloa June 1, 2020 |
 Tithi Bhattacharya, Silvia Federici, Awino Okech & Laura Roth May 27, 2020 |
 Rob Wallace with Moayyad Bsharat, Arie Kurniawaty, Sai Sam Kham & Paula Gioia April 14, 2020 |
 Filmmaker: Atahualpa Caldera Sosa April 9, 2020 |
 Interview with Joaquin Murrieta Saldivar April 7, 2020 |
 Dylan Terrell March 30, 2020 |
 Renata Ballesteros March 26, 2020 |
 Cliff DuRand and Bob Stone March 9, 2020 |
 Laura Carlsen January 15, 2020 |
 Richard Stallman December 1, 2019 |
 Betsy Bowman & Cliff DuRand. Moderated by Gregory Diamant July 24, 2019 |
 Gregory Diamant, Dan Neuspiel & Arturo Yarish July 16, 2019 |
 Susan Goldman & Georgeann Johnson July 3, 2019 |
 Gregory Diamant March 13, 2019 |
 Dan Neuspiel March 12, 2019 |
 Betsy Bowman March 6, 2019 |
 Cliff DuRand, Liz Mestres & Bob Stone February 27, 2019 |
 Alejandra Quezada, Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Jennifer Ungemach February 21, 2019 |
 Robert Meeropol February 12, 2019 |
 Henry Veltmeyer February 6, 2019 |
 Gregory Diamant & Paula James, moderated by Trish Snyder January 16, 2019 |
 Matthew Ally January 15, 2019 |
 Bob Ware January 9, 2019 |
 Leticia Merino, Graciela Martinez & Henry Miller September 6, 2018 |
 Cliff DuRand August 15, 2018 |
 Pedro Gellert August 8, 2018 |
 Sallie Latch August 3, 2018 |
 Cliff DuRand July 25, 2018 |
 Mark Bilker & Gregory Diamant July 18, 2018 |
 Laura Carlsen and Elisa Servin. Moderated by Roberto Robles July 11, 2018 |
 Dylan Terrell July 4, 2018 |
 Alexander Buzgalin, Stephanie Guico, Micky Metts, Peter Ranis, Armando Robles, Andres Ruggeri, Sean Smith, Jesus Torres & Marcelo Vieta June 1, 2018 |
 Marx is played by Gregory Diamant March 20, 2018 |
 Laura Carlsen February 19, 2018 |
 Ercilia Sahores. Moderated by Gregory Diamant January 31, 2018 |
 Betsy Bowman, Cliff DuRand & Steve Gloss January 24, 2018 |
 Discussion with Atahualpa Caldera Sosa January 17, 2018 |
 Pedro Gellert January 17, 2018 |
 Jeff Faux. Moderated by Cliff DuRand January 16, 2018 |
 Joan Roelofs January 10, 2018 |
 Betsy Bowman January 3, 2018 |
 Andrés Barreda Marín July 25, 2017 |
 Gregory Diamant March 22, 2017 |
 Jeff Cohen March 16, 2017 |
 Jose Chencho Alas March 12, 2017 |
 Marco Gómez Gómez & Maria Lucero Jiménez Guzmán March 8, 2017 |
 Juan Gerardo Domínguez Carrasco February 23, 2017 |
 Sallie Latch February 9, 2017 |
 Cliff DuRand & Joan Roelofs January 31, 2017 |
 Laura Carlsen January 26, 2017 |
 Jeff Faux January 24, 2017 |
 Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Joan Roelofs January 19, 2017 |
 Cliff Durand & Chris Kellog August 31, 2016 |
 Cliff DuRand & Jennifer Ungemach August 24, 2016 |
 Cesar Arias & Atahualpa Caldera Sosa August 10, 2016 |
 Nellie Bailey, Gregory Diamant & Peter Weisberg August 3, 2016 |
 A panel with Yolanda Millan, Miguel Lopez & Dylan Terrell July 13, 2016 |
 Cliff DuRand, Betsy Bowman July 6, 2016 |
 Gregory Diamant, Susan Goldman & Georgeann Johnson March 24, 2016 |
 Charlotte Bell, Suzanna Martínez, Hilaria Ramírez, Patricia, Araceli Granada Rojas, Sophia Trapp & Zermeño Williams March 16, 2016 |
 Ann Lutterman-Aguilar March 8, 2016 |
 James Paul March 4, 2016 |
 Cliff DuRand, Joan Roloff & Arturo Yarish January 27, 2016 |
 David Stea January 20, 2016 |
 Nicolo Famiglietti August 11, 2015 |
 Betsy Bowman March 25, 2015 |
 Laura Carlsen March 18, 2015 |
 Alejandra Cervantes, Ilythya Guevera, Angelica Juarez, Irma Rincon & moderator Rosi Bautista March 11, 2015 |
 March 4, 2015 |
 Cliff DuRand February 25, 2015 |
 Jeff Faux January 28, 2015 |
 Cliff DuRand January 21, 2015 |
 Gregory Diamant January 14, 2015 |
 Betsy Bowman January 7, 2015 |
 Laura Carlsen December 4, 2014 |
 Enrique Lazcano, Quincy Saul, David Schwartzman & Harry Targ August 3, 2014 |
 Yolanda Millán, Mario Monroy, Altagracia “Chilo” Villareal & Beth Williford. Moderated by Gerardo Ayala July 31, 2014 |
 Chair: Yolanda Millan July 30, 2014 |
 Burt Jaffe March 25, 2014 |
 Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Cliff DuRand February 12, 2014 |
 November 4, 2013 |
 Yolanda Millan, Luc Monzies & Luis Suárez July 30, 2013 |
 Betsy Bowman July 23, 2013 |
 Will Gilmore March 20, 2013 |
 Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Others March 11, 2013 |
 Ed Fouhy February 26, 2013 |
 Review by Betsy Bowman February 20, 2013 |
 Laura Carlsen February 13, 2013 |
 Laura Carlsen February 12, 2013 |
 Betsy Bowman & Cliff DuRand February 10, 2009 |
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