Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 1:30pm
Enrique Lazcano, Quincy Saul, David Schwartzman & Harry Targ
- 2014 Moving Beyond Capitalism Conference
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more