When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, vast territories were officially within the borders of the United States. This bilingual volume, with all text printed in both English and Spanish, accompanies a major special exhibition at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and presents an overview of how that major shift of both border and culture has continued to affect the people of the United States and Mexico for 150 years.
Iris Engstrand, a professor of history at the University of San Diego, sets the historical stage for the war. She describes the first...