Week 12: Mexican-American War

Before class

Listen to “Politics and Strategy of the Mexican-American War,” from Strategy Bridge or skim the book by Amy Greenberg that is distilled here, Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. Knopf, 2012.

Optional listening if you need a little more background on the Mexican-American War or an alternate way of thinking about its causes…

And optional reading:

• Doyle, Robert C. “Manifest Destiny versus Nativism: Mexico, 1846–1848.”In The Enemy in Our Hands, 69–88. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcngh.10.
• Dull, Jonathan R. “Trade Protection and War with Mexico, 1815–1861.” In American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy, 65–82. University of Nebraska Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1d9nqgf.8.
• Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. Knopf, 2012.
• Ruiz, Octavio Madigan, Amy Sanders, and Meredith Sommers. “Mexico’s Loss of Land: Perspectives from Mexico and the United States.” OAH Magazine of History 10, no. 2 (1996): 24–35.
• Silverstone, Scott A. “The Mexican War and Territorial Expansion.” In Divided Union, 157–201. The Politics of War in the Early American Republic. Cornell University Press, 2004. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7gkh.8.

Spend time working on your project!