by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 19, 2022 | Alvin Josephy, California, Corps of Discovery, Mexican American War, Mexicans, Mexico, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
In the new Smithsonian Magazine: “South to the Promised Land,” the “other” Underground Railroad, the one that went overland and across the Rio Grande to Mexico. Mexico won its independence in 1821. And, fatefully, soon opened its doors to Anglo-American settlers in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 28, 2018 | American Indians, Declaration of independence, indentured servants & slaves, Mexicans
In this time of Sturm und Drang over immigration:First, there were brown people in North America before any white people of European stock arrived. They spoke hundreds of languages before Dutch, French, Spanish, German, and English arrived. They hunted, fished,...
