The Mexican-American War

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Mexican-American War - Wikipedia

READING LIST:

James E. Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale University Press, 2009)

Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Amy Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (Vintage, 2013)

Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War (Harvard University Press, 2017)

S. C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Constable, 2011)

Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire: A Study of Indigenous Power, 1700-1875 (Yale University Press, 2009)

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster, 2010)

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (first published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014)