The U.S. Department of Education now recognizes biliteracy as a mark of educational excellence, which may mean that bilingual education is coming back.

A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.

Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.