John mason hart biography
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John Mason Hart
Professor (Mexico)
538 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3100
jhart@uh.edu
Dr. Hart is one of the nations foremost scholars on Mexican history. For more than thirty years Hart has explored multiple aspects of the Mexican Revolution, Mexican and Mexican-American labor, and the working class of Mexico. Hart received his Ph.D. from The University of California, Los Angles and has taught at the University of Houston since 1978. He has been the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award and held the positions of interim and associate chair of History at the University of Houston.
Dr. Hart has lectured in Mexico and was a distinguished visiting professor at Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico City. He has won numerous book awards such as the Harvey Johnson Prize and the Hubert Herring Prize all for best book on Latin America. He has also received an honorary life membership for Distinguished Scholarship from the Southwestern Council for Latin American Studies.
Teaching:
Dr. Hart’s undergraduate courses include Americans in Mexico Since 1865 and
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Faculty and Staff
John Mason Hart
Moores Professor Emeritus
Dr. Hart is the Moores Professor of History Emeritus and one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Mexico. For more than 50 years, Hart has explored multiple aspects of the Mexican Revolution, the influence of the United States in Mexico, Mexican and Mexican American Labor, and the Mexican rural working classes. Hart received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from UCLA in 1970 and taught at the University of Houston since 1973. He has been the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award and was chair of the History Department three times. Dr. Hart has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Historical Division of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), and at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad including Magisterial Addresses at INAH, ENAH, the National University of Mexico, the Universities of Nuevo León and Puebla, Princeton, and the Universidad Regiomontana de M
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JOHN MASON HART CONCLUDES THAT THE U.S. COLLUDES WITH THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS
Hart writes on page 426, end note 44, "For one of the many [actually, this is the only one] references to the Constitutionalist officers working with the Americans at the port and their names, see File 222, Entry 12, Correspondence of the Administrator of Customs and Captain of the Port, April-November, 1914, Records Group 141, MGV, WNRC." Yet these men were all Federal Army officers, listed in the Federal Army Escalafón (seniority listing) as assigned to San Juan de Ulúa prison, and mentioned in Federal Army General Gustavo Maass' report of the invasion of Veracruz.
See Maass' report in the Archivo Histórico de la Secretaría de Defensa Nacional XI/481.5/315.258-260, and Departamento de Estado Mayor, Secretaría de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra y Marina, Escalafón General del Ejército: Cerrado hasta 31 de Enero de 1914 (México: Talleres del Departamento de Estado Mayor), 1914, p. 178 regarding Colonel Vigil and his assignment.
To operate under the delusion that these were C
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