Michael Jimenez

Michael Jimenez is associate professor of history at Vanguard University. He is the author of Remembering Lived Lives: A Historiography from the Underside of Modernity. He is currently researching the influence of Cesar Chavez’s nonviolent activism and the recent history of Costa Rica.

REVIEW: The Latino Century

Michael Jimenez | October 9, 2024

An anti-Trump conservative makes his case—and his plea

Revisiting The Mission

Michael Jimenez | November 16, 2023

Roland Joffé’s classic leaves us with a taste of heaven—and a taste of hell

REVIEW: Elisabeth Elliot: Missionary, Writer, Booklover

Michael Jimenez | October 18, 2023

The life of an austere evangelical celebrity takes on warmer hues in this new biography

José Figueres and the Costa Rican Path of Peace

Michael Jimenez | June 12, 2023

In the midst of civil war, an unusual alternative changed a nation

REVIEW: A Focused Gaze on Words

Michael Jimenez | April 26, 2023

Suspicion of a text is easy. Trusting is hard.