America Tonight With Kate Delaney

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Kate Delaney

Kate Delaney from America Tonight Radio On Monday, August 2nd Manuel Romero was interviewed by Kate Delaney from America Tonight Radio about his book, “Mi America: The Evolution of An America Family”. 2.9 million listeners Kate Delaney is an award winning National broadcast personality who has interviewed over 16,000 people in twenty-years in her radio and television career. America Tonight also broadcasts from Washington, D.C. every year taking the conversation to the Capitol, talking to the lawmakers about the issues that concern listeners. America Tonight which airs Monday through Saturday reaches 2.9 million listeners when she’s not on the air … Read More

Radio Interview With New Mexico’s KDCE

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KDCE is an Award-winning bilingual radio station serving Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. It has been a favorite radio station for local sports, news and music since 1963. It is locally owned by the people of New Mexico.   On July 6, 2021 Manuel Romero was interviewed live on KDCE by Casey Gallegos about his book,“Mi America: The evolution of An American Family”. Click below to listen!

Praise for Mi America

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Author Manuel Romero is no stranger to media attention. Throughout his professional career he has attracted it on several occasions. After all, he’s served on the University of Utah’s Chicano Scholarship Board of Trustees, founded the Utah Coalition of la Raza, worked on a number of political campaigns, and interned in Washington D.C. for former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson when he was in congress. But this is his first time receiving any attention as an author. Mi America was covered by the Intermountain Catholic in March of this year, and again in April by the Salt Lake City Weekly. … Read More

Mi America Draws National Attention

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The book, Mi America: The Evolution of an American Family, is a detailed exploration of its author, Manuel Romero’s, family history. Beginning 500 years ago with the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Mi America covers a wide breadth of historical subject matter dealing with the cultures of two great nations, Mexico and the United States. But this isn’t your usual history book.  Mi America is drawing national attention because it avoids your usual dry recounting of famous dates or simple retelling of well-known facts. Instead, Romero manages to add fresh insights to historical events by talking about them through … Read More

Featured in Intermountain Catholic

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We’re excited to be featured in a new article on icatholic.org! Intermountain Catholic is a weekly newspaper serving Catholics throughout Utah with news, features, and commentary in a manner that is consistent with excellent journalistic standards and the ecclesial edification of the readership. The article, written by talented author Linda Peterson, covers Manuel’s journey in a way that captures reader interest as she offers anecdotes into Manuel’s life – and why he wrote his book. Our deepest gratitude for the article, Linda! Read the full article here. To get your copy today, visit Manuel’s online store to order a personalized … Read More

Page 100: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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On February 2, 1848, with the stroke of a pen, Nicolás de Jesús Romero, Francisca Pacheco, (Rodolfo’s great-grandparents) and José de Jesús Domínguez and María Concepción Gonzales, (Amelia’s grandparents) became U.S. Citizens. The signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, meant that the United State extended its borders to include more than 100,000 former Spanish subjects and Mexican citizens. They brought with them a culture that was different from that of traditional European immigrants.What Nicolas, Francisca, José, and Mariá didn’t know was that they had become foreigners in their native land, which inevitably led to misunderstandings and conflict.

Page 95: Tragedy in Taos

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On January 21st, Colonel Price led more than 300 U.S. troops and 65 volunteers north through the snow from Santa Fé to Taos, beating back a contingent of some 1,500 Nuevomejicanos and Pueblo Indians at Santa Cruz and Embudo Pass. On February 3rd, Colonel Price marched through the city of Taos unopposed, and discovered the insurgents, who had retreated to the Taos Pueblo, taking refuge in the thick adobe walled church of San Geronimo.While the native resisters fought mostly with bows and arrows along with a few guns, the Americans responded with cannons. Price’s cannons shot through the church walls, … Read More

She did not cross the border. The border crossed her.

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“We are no longer citizens of Spain” In the fall of 1821, just after Mexico won its independence from Spain, my mother’s great-great-grandmother, María Dela Cruz Rivera, was 22 years old and living just outside Santa Fé. One day, she saw her younger sister running up a hill with news about to burst from her lips. Short of breath and confused, her sister says to María, “Hermanita, ya no somos ciudadanas de España. Somos ciudadanas de México,” We are no longer citizens of Spain, we are now citizens of Mexico. A citizen of three different countries without ever leaving home … Read More