This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the two major Native American empire cultures existing at the time of European contact: the Aztec of Mesoamerica and the Inca of South America. The government structures of both of these civilizations were weak when the Spanish arrived.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, which completed the continental United States from coast to coast.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the original division of public opinion over the Mexican-American War. Many accused President Polk of provoking a war.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave the United States the northern portion of Mexico that eventually became the southwestern states.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in 1836, during the Texan struggle for independence from Mexico, a small group of Texan revolutionaries fought a much-larger army of Mexican soldiers at the Battle of the Alamo.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in their quest for independence from the Mexican government, the men who took part in the Texas Revolution saw themselves as freedom fighters.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary repeats U.S. Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane's speech, in which he said that Germany had "no respect for international law" and had to be punished for sinking the ships of neutral nations.
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This course examines American strategy and operational art during the middle part of the 19th century. During the first part of the course, participants will look at the development of American grand strategy during the era of the early Republic, based on an understanding of America's place in the world, the genesis of the war with Mexico, the strategy and major campaigns of the Mexican War, and the way that Mexico prepared the generation of officers who led the armies of both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. During the second part, participants will examine the strategy and campaigns of the Civil War. Civil-military relations in a republic is a major thread that runs throughout the course.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes President Polk's determination to acquire California and the southwest. Polk provoked a war with Mexico to achieve his goal.
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At this workshop participants will engage in dynamic, in-depth, interdisciplinary study of the Alamo and associated major themes of American history, literature, and popular culture. They will study in intimate seminar settings with major scholars, interact with their colleagues in lively conversations, and develop classroom teaching activities based on individual interdisciplinary research conducted in the Alamo Library Archives, the Institute of Texans Cultures, the American History Center and other Texas archives while working in seminars with five nationally recognized Texas scholars.