Jonna Perrillo

Jonna Perrillo is an education historian and Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is author of Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands.

Articles

The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

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Who Gets to Be American?

During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

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