Francisco Cantú

Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.

In its reexamination of narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work changes how Native people are in the arc of American history.

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.

From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.