The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas
The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848, resulted in the largest militaristic land acquisition in American history. It also, as Christopher Menking contends in this book, shaped the distribution of power and wealth in South Texas in profound ways that still resonate throughout the region's political and economic landscape. The US Army Quartermaster ......
Before their forced removal to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the Euchee people lived in Georgia and other southeastern territories. Today the Euchees are enrolled members of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, but they possess their own language, culture, and traditions. This unique collection by Euchee citizen Gregory H. Bigler combines traditional di'ile ......
President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs. It explores how ......
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, "Coxey's Army" marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city's ......
The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town
In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so-against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation-is the story JesUs Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools, a history of the rise and fall of ......
The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town
In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so-against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation-is the story JesUs Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools, a history of the rise and fall of ......
This is the story of events set in motion in South Texas when the anarchist Plan of San Diego was set between 1915 and 1917. The rebels planned to reclaim lands the United States lost in 1846 and to kill every North America male over sixteen. Sandos's book is a groundbreaking attempt to recover a historical memory long repressed in both the United ......
The South has been the standard focus of Reconstruction, but reconstruction following the Civil War was not a distinctly Southern experience. In the post-Civil War West, American Indians also experienced reconstruction through removal to reservations and assimilation to Christianity, and Latter-day Saints-Mormons-saw government actions to force ......
Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769-1849 (2 Volume Set)
A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well-a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state's recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of ......
