Michael Hogan is an historian, poet, and teacher who has lived in Guadalajara for the past three decades. He is married to the textile artist and translator Lucinda Mayo.

Dr. Hogan is well-known for his many best-selling books on Mexican history, including the “Irish Soldiers of Mexico” which was the basis for an MGM movie, and for his popular classes at the American School Foundation where he is Emeritus Chair of Humanities.

Two of his more recent works are highly praised. “Mexicans and Mexican Americans,” which was reviewed in both Latina Magazine and the Smithsonian, and “Guns Grit and Glory, How the US and Mexico Came Together to defeat the last Empire in the Americas,” which was selected as the book of the year on US-Mexico relations by Washington University. Today he will be sharing anecdotes from both books which will be for sale after his talk.