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The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems—Mexican peonage and Indian captivity—in the nineteenth-century ...
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of ...
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres,...
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Sou...
Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, se...
Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America
How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns of corporeal mutilation of Indian peoples in the Americas From the mid-16...