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Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in History
Nuevo Santander The Unrealized Archaeological Potential Of A “Civilian” Province In Northern New Spain, Russell K. Skowronek, Christopher L. Miller, Roseann Bacha-Garza
Nuevo Santander The Unrealized Archaeological Potential Of A “Civilian” Province In Northern New Spain, Russell K. Skowronek, Christopher L. Miller, Roseann Bacha-Garza
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
In 1746 the Viceroy of New Spain called for the founding of a new province to be located between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River. Between 1748-1755 two dozen civilian communities of farmers and ranchers were established by the province’s founder José de Escandón. Many towns were founded along the banks of the Rio Grande where there was access to water and lands for agriculture and grazing. Each town served as the administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical hub for surrounding land grants and ranches. Were it not for the work of W. Eugene George, Mindy Bonine, and Mary Jo Galindo, …
Review Of Mestizos Come Home!: Making And Claiming Mexican American Identity. By Robert Con Davis-Undiano. (Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2017)., Teodoro Garcia Iii
Review Of Mestizos Come Home!: Making And Claiming Mexican American Identity. By Robert Con Davis-Undiano. (Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2017)., Teodoro Garcia Iii
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Gothus: Konstruction Und Rezeption Von Gotenbildern In Narrativen Schriften Des Merowingischen Gallien By Christian Stadermann (Review), Erica Buchberger
Gothus: Konstruction Und Rezeption Von Gotenbildern In Narrativen Schriften Des Merowingischen Gallien By Christian Stadermann (Review), Erica Buchberger
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
Scholarship on the construction of early medieval identities has grown tremendously in recent years, with a number of edited collections, monographs, and articles examining ethnicity, religion, and the strategies of identification used by contemporary authors to situate themselves in a changing post-Roman landscape. The majority of these, though, focus on self-reflection – Franks concerned with Frankish identity, or Goths concerned with Gothic identity. Christian Stadermann’s Gothus is a particularly interesting and useful book precisely because it breaks out of this mold by investigating Gallic and Frankish views of their Gothic neighbors. As Stadermann illustrates, an outsider’s perspective is just as …
From Accordion Roots To Conjunto Music: An Unlikely Journey, Manuel F. Medrano
From Accordion Roots To Conjunto Music: An Unlikely Journey, Manuel F. Medrano
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article presents information on accordion and conjunto music. It mentions that Narciso Martinez, a young pioneer accordionist from northern Mexico began a musical collaboration with bajo sexto player Santiago Almeida from South Texas and formed the conjunto. It also mentions that conjunto pioneer Valerio Longoria has revolutionized what Narciso Martinez had begun before World War II. It also mentions that Eva Ybarra has faced the most obstacles in achieving recognition as an accordionist.
La Corrida De Las Corvinas, Manuel F. Medrano
La Corrida De Las Corvinas, Manuel F. Medrano
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of attending the Central Junior High School in Brownsville, Texas and coping miserably with adolescence.
Lunatics And Idiots: Treatment Of The Mentally Ill And Mentally Disabled Population In The Rio Grande Valley, 1860-1962, Emily Gray
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes the conditions the mentally ill and mentally disabled population in the Rio Grande Valley faced during the era of the asylum in the United States, from 1860 until 1962. The treatment options for the citizens of the Rio Grande Valley are compared with the treatment of the mentally ill in the nation as a whole, as well as in the state of Texas. The Rio Grande Valley has been geographically distant from large population centers, and the state of Texas neglected to place any state-funded health care centers in the region until the 1960's. The Rio Grande …
Review Of Wars For Empire: Apaches, The United States, And The Southwest Borderlands, By Janne Lahti, Thomas A. Britten
Review Of Wars For Empire: Apaches, The United States, And The Southwest Borderlands, By Janne Lahti, Thomas A. Britten
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The Apache wars of the mid to late nineteenth century continue to be a popular topic in American history, and authors have churned out a broad body of scholarship predominantly focusing on the roles of specific tribes and bands or biographies of participants. Using violence and military culture as an interpretative framework, Janne Lahti offers a new overview of the U.S.–Apache wars that seeks to connect the conflict to recent revisions in borderlands histories. Lahti argues that war and violence “constitute expressions of culture determined by cultural forms and norms”. Wars for Empire, consequently, pays close attention to the …
“The Most Turbulent And Most Traumatic Years In Recent Mexican-American History”: Police Violence And The Civil Rights Struggle In 1970s Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
“The Most Turbulent And Most Traumatic Years In Recent Mexican-American History”: Police Violence And The Civil Rights Struggle In 1970s Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
This study builds upon a flurry of scholarship focused on racist (primarily mob) violence against Mexican Americans—indeed, persons of Mexican descent broadly—in the American Southwest since 1848. Some scholars have examined the history of mob violence, particularly lynching, against persons of Mexican descent from 1848 to 1928 in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Although these southwestern states [End Page 34] had their share of such violence, historians William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb concluded that Texas was singular: Anglo Texans “were almost universally regarded as possessing the greatest animosity toward Mexicans.” Others have focused on mob and police violence. …
Site Formation Processes Of Submerged Shipwrecks. Matthew E. Keith (Editor), 2016. University Press Of Florida, Gainesville. Xi 276 Pp. $79.95 (Hardcover), Isbn 978-0-8130-6162-7, Russell K. Skowronek
Site Formation Processes Of Submerged Shipwrecks. Matthew E. Keith (Editor), 2016. University Press Of Florida, Gainesville. Xi 276 Pp. $79.95 (Hardcover), Isbn 978-0-8130-6162-7, Russell K. Skowronek
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
Site Formation Processes of Submerged Shipwrecks explores the physical and cultural processes affecting shipwreck sites. Authors from archaeology, chemistry, oceanography, and sediment dynamics share their expertise regarding the factors that influence the formation and preservation of shipwreck sites. These include the material aspects of ships, the underwater environment, and events including storms, chemical reactions, and subsequent human activity.
Samuel Adams And John Hancock: The Relationship That Determined The Formation Of America, Bruce D. Griffiths
Samuel Adams And John Hancock: The Relationship That Determined The Formation Of America, Bruce D. Griffiths
Theses and Dissertations
This paper argues that the relationship between Samuel Adams and John Hancock and their cooperation played critical/pivotal roles, especially in garnering New England support for the beginning of the American Revolution as well as the ratification of the Constitution.
El Baile, Manuel F. Medrano
El Baile, Manuel F. Medrano
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article offers information on the el baile del otoño, the dance of autumn along with Conjunto music and Accordion music. It mentions that conjunto music was born on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the "father" of this genre, Narciso Martinez spent most of his life there. It also mentions that parents chaperone their daughters but also dance and socialize with extended family and neighbors.
Dia De Los Muertos: Two Days In November, Manuel F. Medrano
Dia De Los Muertos: Two Days In November, Manuel F. Medrano
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience where Pagans have praised him, popes have proclaimed him and shamans have exalted him.
New Studies In Rio Grande Valley History, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, Thomas Daniel Knight
New Studies In Rio Grande Valley History, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, Thomas Daniel Knight
UTRGV & TSC Regional History Series
Spanglish, a poem / Mario Barrera -- Place identity formation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: the identity of Brownsville / Elim Zavala -- The complexity of land custody in 19th century deep South Texas / Eugene Fernandez -- Not in Kansas anymore: selling midwesterners the 'Magic Valley' of South Texas / Craig H. Roell with Ruth May Euler Roell -- Alexander Headley, public servant or scoundrel? / Norman Rozeff -- Rebels at the Rio Grande: naval actions on the international border in 1863 / Walter E. Wilson -- Matamoros en la época de la constitución de 1917 / Rosaura …
"A Bunch Of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, And Racism In South Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
"A Bunch Of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, And Racism In South Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
“Everybody knew the McAllen police were a bunch of tough hombres, especially the Boys on C shift,” reported the Dallas Morning News on March 29, 1981. “Working the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift along the border is like being at war, the cops said. You have to be tough. The Boys on C shift worked at being tough.” Many of the “Boys” wore black T-shirts with gold letters bearing “the legend, ‘C Shift Animals.’ They even had their own slogan: ‘Kick…and Ask Questions Later.’ ” Only days earlier, the public had become aware of their misdeeds, revealed in six years of booking …
Mexico's 2018 Election, Irving W. Levinson
Mexico's 2018 Election, Irving W. Levinson
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
On July 1, 2018, Mexico held elections for the presidency, for all seats in the federal Chamber of Deputies, and for one third of the seats in the federal Senate.
Where There’S A Wall There’S A Way: The End (?) Of Democratic Discourse Regarding Immigration And Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
Where There’S A Wall There’S A Way: The End (?) Of Democratic Discourse Regarding Immigration And Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Border walls have become part and parcel to corporate strategies to garner profits in the new era of post-911 insecurity. Combined with pre-911 agribusiness, service industry and other corporateindustrial expansion including encouraging the “ongoing” recruiting of undocumented cheap labor, the twin corporate policy directives are achieving profits at the expense of the people migrating from Latin America. Building on previous work, the authors analyze the problems created by corporations, complicit government agencies and elected officials in terms of maintaining a status quo that effectively exploits communities from both sides of the US/Mexico border. Policy alternatives are developed, offered and examined …