Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...

Aguilar, Kevan Antonio 2021. From Comrades to Subversives: Mexican Secret Police and ‘Undesirable’ Spanish Exiles, 1939–60. Journal of Latin American Studies ...

What we refer to today as the U.S.-Mexico border was created as the result of a war fought with our neighbor to the south. This case study assumes students have studied or are studying the ...

Through small group discussion and Socratic Seminar, this lesson challenges students to critically investigate the misremembering of this important history. Prior to this lesson, students should have ...

Asian Exclusion: East Asian workers played a key role in transforming the economy of the American West in the decades following the Mexican-American War in 1848. The Chinese began arriving ...

DeLay, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican ... triumphs of the “American Xenophon ...

Peter F. Stevens is the news and features editor of The Boston Irish Reporter, an historian, and the award-winning author of The Voyage of the Catalpa - A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels ...