The Mexican-American Borderlands Culture and History

Abstract

This course includes a variety of modules concerning Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, border histories, migration, Spanish colonialism, and health care. AP history teachers might use this course or individual modules within it to help teach sections on transatlantic encounters and colonial beginnings, colonial North America, territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the development of the West in the late nineteenth century. These modules represent the following themes: American diversity, American identity, culture, religion, demographic changes, economic transformations, religion, and war and diplomacy.