A ballad of love and glory : a novel by Grande, Reyna

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Purgatory's shore. (Artillerymen, #1.) by Anderson, Taylor, 1963-

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Death of an assassin : the true story of the German murderer who died defending Robert E. Lee by Ackermann, Ann Marie

Table of Contents: “…Preface : the murder case that broke all the rules -- Murder in the Kingdom of Württemberg : 1835-36 -- Exile in the United State -- Heroism in Mexico : 1847 -- An international solution : 1872 -- Epilogue : unpaid debt : 2017 -- Appendix A : source indicating lee wrote his letter about Gottlob Rueb -- Appendix B : additional history of Pennsylvania's German Company in the Mexican-American War.…”


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The Civil War and the limits of destruction by Neely, Mark E., Jr

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Destructiveness in the Civil War -- The Mexican-American War : republicanism and the ethos of war -- Price's Raid : limited war in Missouri -- Emperor Maximilian's Black Decree : war in the tropics -- The Shenandoah Valley : Sheridan and the scorched earth -- The Sand Creek Massacre : the grand burning of the prairie -- Avenging Andersonville : retaliation and the political uses of hatred -- Conclusion : The cult of violence in Civil War history.…”


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The politics of war powers : the theory & history of presidential unilateralism by Burns, Sarah (Sarah Mackenzie)

Table of Contents: “…-- Montesquieu's constitutionalism -- The critical period (1776-1787) -- The debate between the federalists and the antifederalists -- Washington, Jefferson, Madison : early debates over war powers -- Junior varsity imperialism : Mexican-American War through the Spanish American War -- The world wars -- The Cold War -- "The new world order" -- Creating the terror presidency -- The limited terror presidency.…”


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Gone for soldiers by Shaara, Jeff, 1952-

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Transcripts of the ... annual Palo Alto Conference

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The case for combat : how presidents persuade Americans to go to war by Lordan, Edward J.

Table of Contents: “…Presidential war rhetoric : an overview -- The War of 1812 (1812-1815) -- The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) -- The Civil War (1861-1865) -- The Spanish-American War (1898) -- World War I (1914-1918) -- World War II (1941-1945) -- The Korean War (1950-1953) -- The Vietnam War (1964-1973) -- The Persian Gulf War (1991) -- The War on Terror (2001-?) …”


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Zachary Taylor by Roberts, Jeremy, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Seminole wars in Florida -- Chapter 6. The Mexican-American war -- Chapter 7. A hero president -- Chapter 8. …”


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Transcripts of the ... annual Palo Alto Conference.

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The Mexican War : how the United States gained its western lands by Cantor, Carrie Nichols

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American empire before the fall by Fein, Bruce E.

Table of Contents: “…Empire without a cause -- How far the republic has fallen : from Lexington and Concord to the Korangal Valley -- The nation's charter documents -- America's descent into empire : from the Mexican-American War to World War II -- Twin myths of the American empire -- Crucifying the rule of law on a national security cross -- The American empire's Bush-Cheney-Obama triumvirate -- A reeducation for Henry Kissinger -- Restoring the American republic.…”


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The dawn of guerrilla warfare : why the tactics of insurgents against Napoleon failed in the US-Mexican war by Swenson, Benjamin J.

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Purgatory's shore by Anderson, Taylor, 1963-

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La Chicana and the intersection of race, class, and gender by Blea, Irene I. (Irene Isabel)

Table of Contents: “…Chicana scholarship and the third world perspective -- Spanish impact on the changing roles of new world women -- Colonial women, women of the Mexican-American war, and women of the Mexican revolution -- Americanization : loss of female power and prestige -- Contemporary cultural roles -- Elderly chicanas -- Cultural synthesis : breaking barriers and defining new roles -- Current social issues -- Theoretical perspectives on the intersection of gender, class, and ethnicity -- New directions in chicana feminist theory and practice.…”


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The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory by Lima, Lázaro

Table of Contents: “…"The American Congo" and the national symbolic -- Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war : nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don -- Reading the corpus delicti : Tomás Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere -- The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy : Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation -- Practices of freedom : the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing -- Democracy's graveyard : dead citizenship and the Latino body.…”


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What hath God wrought the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Howe, Daniel Walker

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Trouble at Temescal a Western duo by Bonham, Frank

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Trouble at Temescal : a Western duo by Bonham, Frank

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America's westward expansion

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