Books about The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War

"History of the Mexican-American War " in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith. The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of

The Mexican War was a war of conquest led by the United States to take the lands north of the Rio Grande and Gila rivers from Mexico. Even today, the debate continues as to the morality of the U.S. invasion although it paved the way for the United States to

Explores what it was like to live through the Mexican-American War.

Filled with images, many of them photographs taken from this first-ever-photographed war, a study discusses the legacy of this important event through the people who were allowed to document it--photographers, eyewitnesses, and press correspondents.