Students will come to understand how and why the Mexican-American War was fought, and how it was to shape the United States both before, during, and after the American Civil War.

I hold a bachelors in history and a masters in teaching secondary social studies from the University of South Carolina. On top of that I hold a teaching credential for teaching social studies in the state of California and have been in public education for four years.

1. America: A Narrative History 11th Edition by David Emory Shi (2019)
2. El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson (2019) - Specifically Chapter 9, which deals with the era of 1820-1848.
3. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenburg (2012)
4. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (2007)
5. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction 3rd Edition by James M. McPherson (2001)
6. The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard (2008)
7. U.S. Mexican War 1846-1848 by PBS (2009)
8. The Mexican-American War by History (2008)
9. Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2020)
10. An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz (2018) Specifically chapters 2 & 3 that together deal with period between1820-1865.
11. An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014) Specifically chapter 7 "Sea to Shining Sea" that encompasses the period of 1830s-1850s.
12. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1885)
13. Annual Report of the American Historical Association (1917) - Contains the Letters of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 1846-1847 from the Mexican-American War