I had the opportunity to share portions of the dissertation project this April at the Tenth Annual Rice-Unicamp-Mora Seminar, hosted by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicampi), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Sharing this story in this setting, in an audience of U.S.-, Mexico-, and Brazil-trained scholars, each bringing their own historiographical traditions and experiences into their receptions and comments, was a wonderful experience.