History Workshop on the United States Southwest
These are select resources for the course History Workshop on the United States Southwest. professor Tatiana Seijas.
Mexican War Broadside (1846)
This broadside was used for recruiting purposes for the Mexican War. It is in the collection of Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Click here to access a better quality image file and more information on the broadside.
Geneological Sources
- HeritageQuestIt is genealogical database with government records, census data and auxiliary resources for family history research. It links to Ancestry.com. Some Ancestry.com features may require creating a free personal account, and some are not available without purchasing an Ancestry.com premium account.
- FamiySearchIt is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the largest genealogy organization in the world. You need to create an account (free) to use it.
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Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae, et Peruviae (1600)
Tatton, Gabriel, and Benjamin Wright. Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae, et Peruviae. [S.l, 1600] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/99446134/.
Maps
- David Ramsey Map CollectionThe collection focuses on 16th through 21st century maps of North and and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
- 1875. Progress Map Of The Geographical Surveys West Of The 100th Meridian.Part of the David Ramsey Map Collection, this map accompanied the annual report of 1st Lieut. George M. Wheeler Corps Of Engineers.
- Library of Congress Collections with MapsThis collection presents maps from different regions of the world and time periods in history.
Books
Mr. Polk's Army: the American military experience in the Mexican War by Call Number: Alexander E409.2.W56 1997ISBN: 0890967547Publication Date: RUonline and
The Spanish Frontier in North America by
A compact synthesis of David J. Weber's prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain's gradual retreat Praise for the previous edition: "I cannot imagine a single book giving a more comprehensive and balanced study of Spain's presence in North America."--Louis Kleber, History Today "For readers seeking to understand the larger meaning of the Spanish heritage in North America, Weber's vivid narrative is a must. This is social and cultural history at its best."--Howard R. Lamar, Yale University "A superb study."--Choice "[A] deeply researched and splendidly conceived and written survey."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., New York Times Book Review
Call Number: RUonline & Alexander F799.W42 2009ISBN: 9780300140682Publication Date: 2009
The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 by
A classic resource on the struggle for dominance in southern North America during the colonial period. This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for control.
Call Number: RUonlineISBN: 0817384022Publication Date: 2004
A Century of Dishonor by
Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson's eye-opening sketch of the US government's often shameful mishandling of what was called the 'Indian problem'. Using official documents, Jackson asserts that the government and citizens of the United States were the cause of the 'problems' and not the Native peoples.
Call Number: RUonlineISBN: 1582182892Publication Date: 2001
As If She Were Free by
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.
Call Number: RUonlineISBN: 1108659497Publication Date: 2020
This Land Was Mexican Once: histories of resistance from Northern California by
The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. Napa's history clearly is one of co-existence; yet, its schoolbooks tell a linear story that climaxes with the arrival of Euro Americans. In "This Land was Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with important implications for the larger American West, as well. Heidenreich is part of a new generation of scholars who are challenging not only the old, Euro-American depiction of California, but also the linear method of historical storytelling--a method that inevitably favors the last man writing. She first maps the overlapping histories that comprise Napa's past, then examines how the current version came to dominate--or even erase--earlier events. So while history, in Heidenreich's words, may be "the stuff of nation-building," it can also be "the stuff of resistance." Chapters are interspersed with "source breaks"--raw primary sources that speak for themselves and interrupt the linear, Euro-American telling of Napa's history. Such an inclusive approach inherently acknowledges the connections Napa's peoples have to the rest of the region, for the linear history that marginalizes minorities is not unique to Napa. Latinos, for instance, have populated the American West for centuries, and are still shaping its future. In the end, "This Land was Mexican Once" is more than the story of Napa, it is a multidimensional model for reflecting a multicultural past.
Call Number: RUonline & Alexander F868.N2H45 2007ISBN: 0292795378Publication Date: 2009
