Americas Archive: Recent submissions
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Spanish Catholic Missions and Border History
(2011-08-04)The Catholic missions of Spanish America are an integral part of U.S.-Mexico borderlands history. Using John Russell Bartlett’s Personal narrative of explorations & incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, volume 1, a 19th century document found in the Our Americas Archive Partnership, I discuss how the missions represent ... -
La madre mexicana: fragmento del libro, Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas
(2011-07-21)Este video es una lectura corta del libro Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas, con preguntas para reflexión para estudiantes de español. (This video provides a reading of a short Spanish excerpt followed by questions and vocabulary for Spanish students.) -
Introducción a un billete mexicano de diez pesos
(2011-07-08)Este video contextualiza a un billete de diez pesos mexicanos (1823) impreso sobre una bula católica (siglo 18), según la trayectoria de la historia de México. (This video contextualizes a ten pesos Mexican banknote (1823) printed on an eighteenth century Catholic bull, according to the timeline of Mexican history.) -
Journal of George Dunham, 1853
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U.S.S. Jamestown logbook
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Alexander Hobbs U.S. Civil War diary
(1862)Diary describes the author's volunteer service during the U.S. Civil War, including the Battle of Galveston, a prison stay in Houston, and patrol duty in New Orleans -
Diez pesos
(1823)
