Marked Mexico City

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Mexican Revolution

Mexicans rose against the long rule of Porfirio Díaz in 1910, and a decade of war followed between rival leaders, including Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who fought for land for the peasants.

Place
Mexico City · Morelos · Chihuahua · QuerétaroThe Americas
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeA country where most land belonged to a few.

  1. IDíaz and the haciendas
  2. IIMadero
  3. III“Land and liberty”: Zapata
  4. IVPancho Villa
  5. VThe soldaderas
  6. VIThe constitution of 1917
  7. VIIMurals of the revolution

AfterA new constitution promising land and rights to workers.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Porfirio Díaz
  • Francisco Madero
  • Emiliano Zapata
  • Pancho Villa
  • Petra Herrera
  • Diego Rivera

Objects

  • The constitution of 1917
  • Photographs from the Casasola archive

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1910 to 1920. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?