The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifes

A concise yet comprehensive social history of the Mexican–American War as it was experienced by the people of Mexico. The war that was fought between the Unit

ROBERT MERRY’S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY. In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of Ameri

The first book to tell the history of the Mexican war through the eyes of the American reporters--the nation's first war correspondents--who covered it on the g

This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed in