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Books

Bauer, Karl J. The Mexican War. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Bredeson, Carmen. The Battle of the Alamo. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Butler, Stephen R. A Documentary History of the War with Mexico 1846-1848. Richardson, TX: Descendents of Mexican War Veterans, 1994.

Callcott, Wilfrid Hardy. Santa Anna: The Story of an Enigma Who Once Was Mexico. North Haven, CT: Archon, 1964.

Chance, Joseph E., ed. The Mexican War Journal of Captain Franklin Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Chance, Joseph E., ed. Mexico Under Fire. Ft. Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1994.

Chance, Joseph E., and Lawrence R. Clayton, eds. The March to Monterrey: The Diary of Lt. Rankin Dilworth. El Paso: The University of Texas at El Paso, 1996.

Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War with Mexico. New York: Crown, 1968.

Conner, Seymour V., and Odie B. Faulk. North America Divided: The Mexican War 1846-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Crawford, Ann Fears, ed. Autobiography of Santa Anna. Austin, TX: State House Press, 1988.

Del Castillo, Richard. The Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Downey, Fairfax. Texas and the War with Mexico. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1961.

Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848. New York: Random House, 1989.

Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Monterrey is Ours! The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Francaviglia, Richard V., and Douglas Richmond, eds. Duel Eagles: A Reinterpreting Mexican-American War 1846-1848. Ft. Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2000.

Frazier, Donald, ed. The United States and Mexico at War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

George, Isaac. Heroes and Incidents of the Mexican War. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1982.

Goetzmann, William H. Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 1993.

Hogan, Michael. The Irish Soldiers of Mexico. Guadalajara, Mexico: Fondo Editorial Universitario, 1997.

Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Jones, Oakah, Jr. Santa Anna. Boston: Twayne, 1968.

Katcher, Philip R. The Mexican American War, 1846-1848. New York: Osprey Publishing, 1989.

McCaffrey, James M. Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

McCaffrey, James, ed. "Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds": The Mexican War Diaries of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley. Texas A & M University Press, 1995.

Meyer, Michael C., and William L. Sherman. The Course of Mexican History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Miller, Robert Ryal. Mexico: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Miller, Robert Ryal. Shamrock and Sword: The St. Patrick's Battalion in the U.S.-Mexican War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Miller, Robert Ryal, and William J. Orr. An Immigrant Soldier in the Mexican War. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1995.

Nevin, David. The Mexican War. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1978.

Nardo, Don. The Mexican-American War. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books,1991.

O'Brien, Steven. Antonio López de Santa Anna. New York: Chelsea, 1992.

Roberts, David. A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West. New York: Touchstone, 2000.

Robinson, Cecil, ed. and trans. The View from Chapultepec: Mexican Writers on the Mexican-American War. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Sanford, Charles L., ed. Manifest Destiny and the Imperialism Question. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974.

Schroeder, John H. Mr. Polk's War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.

Stephenson, Nathaniel W. Texas and the Mexican War. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 1921.

Stevens, Peter F. The Rogue's March: John Riley and the St. Patrick's Battalion 1846-1848. Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 2000.

Tinkle, Lon. The Alamo. New York: New American Library, 1958.

Tolliver, Ruby. Santa Anna: Patriot or Scoundrel? Dallas, TX: Hendrick-Long, 1993.

Werstein, Irving. The War with Mexico. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1965.

Winders, Richard Bruce. Mr. Polk's Army. College Station: Texas A & MUniversity Press, 1997.

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.

Collections

Special Collections Library. University of Texas at Arlington.

Web Sites

Descendents of Mexican War Veterans. The U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848. [Online] Available http://www.dmwv.org/ (accessed on February 25, 2003).

Documents on the Mexican-American War. [Online] Available http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/War/19Mex.htm (accessed on February 25, 2003).

The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage. [Online] Available http://sunsite.unam.mx/revistas/1847/Summa.html (accessed on February 25, 2003).

"Mexican-American War Timeline." America at War. [Online] Available http://www.semo.net/suburb/dlswoff/mexwar.html (accessed on February 25, 2003).

Sanchez, Mario. "A Shared Experience's Historical Survey: The Mexican-American War: 1846-1848." Texas Historical Commission. [Online] Available http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Past/Book/Part2/1846-48/html (accessed on February 25, 2003).

"U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848." PBS Online. [Online] Available http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/ (accessed on February 25, 2003).