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History Faculty Publications and Presentations

1993

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Living On ,The Edge Of America: At Home On The Texas-Mexico Border By Robert Lee Maril (Review), Robert M. Salmon Jul 1993

Living On ,The Edge Of America: At Home On The Texas-Mexico Border By Robert Lee Maril (Review), Robert M. Salmon

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Barbara Stanwyck: Uncommon Heroine, Sandra Schackel Apr 1993

Barbara Stanwyck: Uncommon Heroine, Sandra Schackel

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

"Barbara Stanwyck, an intrepid citizen who has shown no fear of man, terrain, or scripts over a long and illustrious career, is tackling all three in Cattle Queen of Montana," reported the New York Times when the film opened in that city in 1954.1 Thirty years into her movie career, Stanwyck indeed had demonstrated her ability in more than eighty roles by the late 1950s. Nominated for four Academy Awards in her career, none of them for Westerns, Stanwyck professed to love that genre best; she starred in ten Western movies during the 1940s and 1950s.2 In these …


Sam Perl: Mr, Friendship And Mr. Temple Beth-El Of Brownsville, Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph, Sondra Shands Apr 1993

Sam Perl: Mr, Friendship And Mr. Temple Beth-El Of Brownsville, Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph, Sondra Shands

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This article presents a detailed look at an individual Jew's contributions to Brownsville and the adjacent border area. It illustrates the need for more local studies of a biographical nature to add to our knowledge of Jewish Texans. Research into related topics, such as the role of lay rabbis in maintaining Jewish religious life in other small towns in the Southwest and the degree to which Jewish immigrants entered the mainstream of community life in America, is also needed.


Army Of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier In The Mexican War,1846-1848 By James M. Mccaffrey (Review), Joseph E. Chance Apr 1993

Army Of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier In The Mexican War,1846-1848 By James M. Mccaffrey (Review), Joseph E. Chance

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May 13, 1996, marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the United States' declaration of war against Mexico. Interest in a modern reassessment popular war of conquest is beginning to stir throughout both Hidalgo County Historical Museum has mounted an important and a bill to create a military park at Palo Alto has been introduced In fact, the prospect of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico acted as a catalyst to stimulate a more general and deeper interest and culture of the borderlands.


The Spanish American Homeland: Four Centuries In New Mexico's Rio Arriba By Alvar W. Carlson (Review), Robert M. Salmon Apr 1993

The Spanish American Homeland: Four Centuries In New Mexico's Rio Arriba By Alvar W. Carlson (Review), Robert M. Salmon

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This comprehensive examination of Spanish, Mexican, and United States land tenure systems in New Mexico's Rio Arriba is based on the discipline of geography Alvar Carlson undertakes his journey into land grant history in order to ex- amine cultural and environmental changes visible in the region after some 400 years of history. He finds that land grant history is certainly in need of revision as he focuses upon the incorporation of subsistence agriculture and land use pat- terns in Rio Arriba.