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Tierra was published in Yucatán by the Socialist Party of Southeast Mexico, beginning in 1918. The publication started as a daily newspaper, but following the election in 1922 of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico's first democratically chosen socialist governor, Tierra was converted to a weekly magazine. Each issue sought to advance the agenda of Carrillo Puerto's government, which included the restoration of communal lands to rural communities, women's rights, education, and the elevation of the region's Indigenous past. Starting on May 1, 1923, thirty-three weekly issues were published prior to the assassination of Carrillo Puerto in January 1924.

This project presents all the 1923 issues, with complete document images and an index of the recurring sections and the names of authors. The project is led by Clayton McCarl, professor of Spanish and digital humanities at ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ, and Damiana Leyva Loría, a doctoral candidate in Educational Systems and Environments at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla. Erin Garry (Spanish, 2024) and Peri Manwell (Spanish/art history, 2024) served as associate editors during the initial phases of the project. Over thirty other ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ students have contributed through transcription, TEI-XML markup, and the creation of Dublin Core metadata on the project’s Omeka website.

Project Leaders 

Damiana Leyva Loría (director and general editor) is a doctoral candidate in Educational Systems and Environments at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla.  Her work focuses on theory and epistemology of literature, curricular design, dissemination, and didactics. She was the first woman in her family to obtain university and graduate studies, thanks to the efforts of all the women who preceded her, starting with her great-grandmother, a soldier in the Mexican Revolution. Since 2015, she has volunteered in the National Reading Rooms Program (PNSL).

Clayton McCarl (technical editor) is a Spanish and digital humanities professor at ³ÉÈËAVÊÓƵ. He leads several pedagogically focused digital editing projects, including coloniaLab (colonialab.org), Editing the Eartha M.M. White Collection (unfdhi.org/earthawhite), and the North Florida Editorial Workshop (nfew.org). He has published on topics related to digital editing and DH pedagogy in journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, The Public Historian, Scholarly Editing, and the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. He coordinates the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America (adrela.net), an international scholarly collective.