Designed and written by Joseph M. Quinn in 2006, The Mexico City College Story; The History: 1940-63 website was transferred to Jed Linde in 2016. It is now part of a book (with the above title) that includes the original history, resources, bibliography, photographs, and footnotes. Besides that, there are many new photographs, illustrations, and multiple alumni memoirs.
Created as an expanded, lasting, and accessible version of Quinn’s original work, it is available at multiple booksellers in e-book and paperback formats at:
https://books2read.com/u/mvPQj6
“Mexico City College (MCC) was a truly unique institution where Mexico became part of the school’s classroom. Located in and later on the outskirts of Mexico City, it offered a broad liberal arts curriculum accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Students and faculty from across the United States and almost three dozen countries, along with a local student body, supported by a multinational faculty, provided an educational environment of extraordinary cultural diversity that could not be matched anywhere else at the time. Twenty years after its founding, it stood on the brink of foundering when “it would be re-named as the University of the Américas, then the Universidad de las Américas followed by its move to Puebla.”
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Official Student Publication of Mexico City College
Recommended Reading:
Mexico City College Students & the Mexican Landscape, 1954-1962 by Richard W. Wilkie.
Professor, Department of Geosciences & Geography University of Massachusetts—Amherst
PDF free download
Adventures Into Mexico: American Tourism Beyond the Border, ed. Nicholas D. Bloom (2006)
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