header by Emerson Taymor, 2005


1. Pre-Columbian Mexico

2. The Conquest

3. Colonial Mexico

4. The Nineteenth Century

5. The Revolution

6. Mexico Since 1920

7. Theories of Mexicanidad

8. Borderlands and comparative history

 

 

 

Chapter 4: The 19th Century

Section A: Independence, in Mexico and Elsewhere

  1.  John Charles Chasteen, “Creating National Identities”: a collection of primary sources
  2. Chasteen, "Independence," from Born in Blood & Fire
  3. Chasteen, "Patriot Victories," from Born in Blood & Fire
  4. Chasteen, "Postcolonial Blues," from Born in Blood & Fire
  5. Chasteen, "Nativism," from Born in Blood & Fire
  6. Lizardi, "The Itching Parrot, the Priest, and the Subdelegate"
  7. Scheina, “First Mexican Revolution”
  8. Meyer, Sherman and Deeds, “The Wars for Independence”
  9. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, “Independence Wars”
  10. E. Bradford Burns, "Popular Revolution in Mexico," Latin America: An Interpretive History
  11. Henderson, “The revolution of 1810”
  12. short summary of the 1810 Revolution, from Beezley and MacLachlan, Mexico: The Essentials
  13. Hidalgo's Grito de Dolores
  14. US Declaration of Independence
  15. Excerpts from the US Constitution
  16. Declaration of the Rights of Man
  17.  Questions on Morelos' speech
  18.  Plan de Iguala
  19.  Krauze, "In Mexico, a War Every Century," New York Times (2010)
  20. Theodore Vincent, "The Contributions of Mexico's First Black Indian President, Vicente Guerrero," Journal of Negro History (2001)
  21. images of Vicente Guerrero
  22. Taryn White, "Just Across the Border, This Mexican Community Also Celebrates Juneteenth," National Geographic (June 2021)
  23. Randolph Campbell, from An Empire for Slavery, on the end of slavery in Mexico, but not in Texas

Section B: Santa Anna

  1. The Politics of Chaos, 1824-38, from Beezley and MacLachlan, Mexico: The Essentials
  2. Biography of Santa Anna
  3. Attacks on Santa Anna's leg
  4. Decimas dedicated to it
  5. Henderson, "Who Was Santa Anna?"
  6. How Santa Anna invented chewing gum

Section C: Texas

  1. timeline and brief review of events in Mexico, from Foner textbook
  2. Henderson, "The United States and Mexico Circa 1821"
  3. Lorey, "From Frontier to Borderlands"
  4. José María Sánchez criticizesTejanos, 1828
  5. Tejano leaders support Anglo-American immigration, 1832
  6. Quotations on US expansion
  7. Henderson, "Santa Anna and the Texas Revolution"
  8. Henderson, “Who were the Texas settlers?”
  9.  The Texas Revolt
  10. PBS' The West on Texas
  11.  Texas declaration of Independence
  12.  Barra, "Alamo Redux: A Mission Impossible"
  13.  Other articles on The Alamo
  14.  Paintings of the Alamo and Mexican War
  15.  Henderson, "The Meaning of the Texas Revolt"
  16. John Havard, "How Anti-Spanish Bias Justified 19th-Century American Expansionism," Zócalo Public Square (July 2018)

Section D: California

  1. introduction to A World Transformed--California before the Gold Rush
  2. picturing a world transformed--images of California before the Gold Rush
  3. George Vancouver surveys California (1792)
  4. Russians in California--Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov and Georg von Langsdorff (1806)
  5. Frederick William Beechey describes the workings of the mission system in SF (1816)
  6. Adelbert von Chamisso describes the workings of SF's Presidio (1816)
  7. Richard Henry Dana describes Californio culture (1835-36)
  8. Sir George Simpson on whether or not the Britiish should colonize California (1841-42)
  9. Edwin Bryant describes California right before the war (1846)
  10. Edward Kemble remembers San Francisco right before the Gold Rush (1847-48)

Section E: The Mexican-American War

  1. full section on the Mexican War from Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty
  2. Henderson on how, where, and why the war started
  3.  U.S./Mexican War on PBS
  4. Wasserman, "Soldiers"
  5. Perspectives on the war: US support for the war; US opposition to the war; Mexican perspective; examining perspectives questions
  6. The Mexican War and the US media
  7. Map of cessions after the Mexican war
  8. Manuel Crescencio Rejón, observations on the treaty of Guadelupe (1848)
  9. Jose Vasconcelos, The Tragedy of California
  10. Sandow Birk, proposal for a monument to the Treaty (2015)
  11. Time magazine article about a 2008 Absolut vodka ad that stirred up a Mexican-war controversy

Section F: Liberals vs Conservatives

  1. narrative of liberals vs conservatives, 1855-76, from Beezley and MacLachlan, Mexico: The Essentials
  2. Chasteen, "Progress," from Born in Blood and Fire
  3. a short summary of La Reforma
  4. Roderic Ai Camp, summary of Juárez and La Reforma
  5. Mark Wasserman, "The Liberals”
  6. Mark Wasserman, Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War (2000) on foreign intervention, 1861-67
  7. Pope Pius IX rejects Mexico's 1857 Constitution
  8. Benito Juárez orders arrest of a priest who refused last rites to a dead mayor (1857)
  9. Benito Juárez, "The Triumph of the Republic" (1867)

Section G: The Porfiriato

  1. Ross, "Pax Porfiriana, American Dream"
  2. Chasteen, "Neocolonialism," from Born in Blood and Fire
  3. James Creelman's interview with Porfirio Diaz (1908)
  4. Statistics on the Porfiriato
  5. infographic version of Porfiriato statistics
  6. The Porfirian Capital, from Beezley and MacLachlan, Mexico: The Essentials
  7. another worshipful American article about how manly Diaz was, from 1900
  8. "The Man of Mexico": the LA Times runs a worshipful piece on Diaz (1899)
  9. Chasteen, “The Perils of Progress”
  10. John Kenneth Turner, "The Diaz System" (1910)
  11. religious uprisings against the central government, 1847-1901, from Beezley and MacLachlan, Mexico: The Essentials
  12. Carleton Beals, "Bread or the Club"
  13. Francisco Bulnes, "The Three Human Races" (1899)
  14. Arnold and Frost, "The American Egypt" (1909)
  15. Chasteen, “Reactions to Neocolonialism”: a collection of primary sources
  16. Roosevelt corollary
  17. Ruben Darío, "To Roosevelt"
  18. Thomas Benjamin and Marcial Ocasio-Meléndez, "Organizing the Memory of Modern Mexico: Porfirian Historiography in Perspective, 1880s-1980s," Hispanic American Historical Review (1984)