The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

By Richard Parker. A history that re-centers the American story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—the heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North America, centuries-long hub of immigration, and underappreciated modern blueprint for a multi-ethnic United States. Recasts the city as the unacknowledged cradle of American history, where cultures have encountered each other for centuries and forged a thriving multi-ethnic community far ahead of the rest of the nation. Read more.