One of the specialties of the Institute of Oral History (IOH) at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is gathering and memorializing the experiences of individuals in the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program (1942–1964) was the largest temporary worker program in U.S. history, bringing Mexican men to The United States to work in agriculture.

The correlation between art and identity is a common bind with which many individuals promote a way of life.

When digging through the layers of Rome, one can easily be overwhelmed by the immensity and complexity of its vast history.

What is the power of history? What is the power of memory? These are the questions we are considering in our ongoing project, The Barrios of El Paso Digital History Project, an ongoing project of the Institute of Oral History (IOH) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

A couple of days ago, I came across an article about a letter written by John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe—yes, the Nobel-prize winner to the curvy sex symbol. But what would a literary writer be asking from the Hollywood bombshell?