Mexican-American War: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jack K. Bauer, The Mexican War, 1846–1848 (1974), is a dated but useful overview. Even older but still insightful is Justin Harvey Smith, The War with Mexico: The Classic History of the Mexican-American War (2011, originally published 1919). Amy S. Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2012), considers the conflict as an expansionist war of choice and examines how it was affected by and affected the lives of James K. Polk, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln. Richard Bruce Winders, Mr. Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997); and James M. McCaffrey, Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846–1848 (1992), focus on the military aspects of the war but consider them within the context of the war’s effect on American society. Kevin Dougherty, Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience (2007), surveys the war’s impact on officers who provided the military leadership for both sides in the American Civil War. Timothy Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (2007); Irving Levinson, Wars Within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848 (2005); and Pedro Santoni, Mexicans at Arms: Puro Federalists and the Politics of War, 1845–1848 (1996), look at the war from the Mexican perspective. Other informative studies include John S.D. Eisenhower, So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846–1848 (2000, originally published 1989); Sam W. Haynes, James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (1997); and Robert W. Johannsen, To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).

Article History

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Add new Web site: National Defense University Press - Improvised Partnerships: U.S. Joint Operations in the Mexican-American War. Oct 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Murray State's Digital Commons - Henry Clay on the Mexican War. Oct 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Case Western Reserve University - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Mexican-American War. May 07, 2024
Add new Web site: National Park Service - The Mexican-American War. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - The Mexican-American War. Jan 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - The Mexican War. Nov 06, 2023
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War 1846-1848. Aug 17, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - The Mexican American War. Jun 19, 2023
Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848. Mar 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Northern Illinois University - Digital Library - The Mexican-American War. Jan 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Mexican-American War: 19th-century American art in context. Oct 07, 2022
Media added. Jun 21, 2021
Corrected display issue. Nov 10, 2020
Top Questions updated. Jul 19, 2019
Corrected display issue. Jul 21, 2017
Add new Web site: Social Studies for Kids - The Mexican-American War. Dec 11, 2016
Clarified that Lewis Armistead was a Confederate and not a Union general during the American Civil War. Sep 11, 2015
Added discussion of the role of disease, American opposition to the war, and experience gained by future American Civil War generals. Dec 11, 2014
New bibliography added. Dec 11, 2014
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Apr 12, 2014
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - The Mexican-American War. Apr 12, 2014
Added video. Apr 01, 2014
Add new Web site: Heritage History - Mexican American War. Jan 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Mexican War. Jan 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Wars of the World - Mexican War. Jan 04, 2013
Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas - Mexican War. Jan 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Mexican War. Jan 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Wars of the World - Mexican War. Jan 04, 2013
Added new Web site: National Park Service - A History of Mexican Americans in California. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - KERA - Mexican American War. Feb 16, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Mexican War. Nov 10, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jun 04, 2008
Media added. Feb 19, 2008
Added new Web site: The Civil War - The Mexican War. Aug 23, 2007
Article revised and updated. Oct 23, 2006
Added new Web site: Social Studies for Kids - The Mexican-American War. Oct 05, 2006
Added new Web site: PBS Online - U.S.- Mexican War (1846-1848). Sep 22, 2006
Added new Web site: Descendants of Mexican War Veterans -The US-Mexican War. Jul 04, 2006
Article revised. Mar 21, 2003
Article revised. Sep 13, 2002
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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