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Photograph. portrait, head and shoulders, facing right.

This advertisement from the Department of the Interior, circa 1911, offers surplus Indian land for sale.  After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional…

Portrait, Jane Maria Eliza McManus Storms Cazneau

John L. O'Sullivan, portrait photograph

News regarding the war, ship movements

Up to date news on the progress of the war, from Vera Cruz

Peonage and slavery

Peon slavery in New Mexico

Portrait, photograph

The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In…