Sep. 1—In mid-September 1875, The Santa Fe New Mexican ran a short item noting Methodist minister F.J. Tolby (the paper misidentifies him as "T.J.") had been found slain on the road between Cimarron ...

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In the month of May, two key anniversaries that spurred the Civil War into motion occurred between the United States and Mexico over a conflict that centered on Texas. The Mexican-American War became ...

Former Arizona legislator and all-around nice guy Tom Prezelski is raising money on Kickstarter to finish his quite-cleverly-titled book on a bit of Mexican-American history during the Civil War, ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In some ways, the Civil War in New Mexico was not so much about North versus South, but New Mexico versus Texas.

Introduction: "The rhetorics of the everyday" and civic belonging -- The American GI Forum and the rhetoric of civic presence -- The Félix Longoria incident : drama, irony, and "The American dilemma" ...

How Did Service in Mexico Influence Later Performance? In recognition of the importance of the Mexican-American War in military education, Prof. Johnson (Lipscomb University) has collected essays on ...