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Update: It's turning out to be quite a project to migrate the posts over to the new self-hosted Wordpress blog, www.madam-mayo.com , but...

The past few months have been taken up with various projects, among them, a batch of website and blog redesigns and overhauls. From here on ...

Thanks to my correspondent, R., who spotted this in El Universal , a Mexico City newspaper: A portrait of Maximilian has been auctioned b...

Back when.... many years ago.... when I was researching my novel I paid more than I would ever like to admit to get my hands on a xerox c...

Those of you who follow this blog will have noted that the posts have become infrequent. My novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is...

This is a mirror post from my main blog, Madam Mayo: If you haven't heard of Agustín de Iturbide, he is Mexico's George Washingto...

Over on my main blog, Madam Mayo , I just posted about a new essay in Catamaran Literary Reader and (in Spanish) in  Letras Libres,  on t...

Waaaay back in 2010-- Mexico's bicentennial year-- I gave the keynote speech for the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Harry Rans...

This is the transcript of my remarks for the panel "Writing Across Borders and Cultures" on October 15, 2016 at the Women Writing ...

[[ CENTRO CULTURAL JARDIN BORDA, CUERNAVACA, MORELOS, MEXICO ]] In the winter of 1866 Maximilian brought his court to his Imperial...

At long last the complete transcript of my interview with historian M.M. McAllen about her splendid narrative history, Maximilian and Car...

Happy New Year! Just posted:  A Conversation with M.M. McAllen , which is number 8 in my occasional podcast series "Conversations wit...

You can now listen in anytime to Professor Galeana's talk (in Spanish) for the Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México in Mexico Ci...

Just out in Spanish: De la A a la Z: El conocimiento de las lenguas de México (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia, 2015) a ...

VIAJE A YUCATAN Por Carlota de Bélgica Prólogo de José N. Iturriaga CONACULTA, México, 2011 ISBN 978-607-455-680-3 [You should be abl...

As the title says, my latest book is about Francisco I. Madero's Spiritist philosophy and the Mexican Revolution, which he launched in ...

He was Maximilian's Court Painter, a leading figure in 19th century Mexican painting, and one of the important influences on Diego River...