Chapter 6
Video Resources
- This movie provides an overview of the wars of independence: http://www.teachertube.com/video/mexican-independence-196626 (04:58)
- Produced by the National Institute of Historical Studies of the Revolutions of Mexico, this video provides a biography of José María Morelos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGZ9-jGqZM (01:00)
- This video shows how the present-day village of Paintla de los Reyes reenacts the War of Independence (note the mixing of characters and imagery from pre-Hispanic, independence, and revolutionary eras): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYTir-spTY (03:27)
Links
- This PBS website offers an overview of the Napoleonic war in the Iberian Peninsula: http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_9.html
- This Library of Congress website contains Mexico's founding documents and constitutions: http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/02/the-history-of-the-mexican-constitution/
- This University of Toronto website features political pamphlets from the time of the War for Independence: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/mexicanpamphlets/
- This website provides history and images of San Miguel de Allende, especially regarding its importance to Hidalgo's rebellion: http://vivasanmiguel.com/history.htm
- This website contains biographical information about independence war heroine Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: https://www.inside-mexico.com/dona-josefa-ortiz-de-dominguez-mexican-independence-heroine/
- This interactive website discusses women's roles in independence movements in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America: http://www.historvius.com/women-and-independence-in-latin-america/fr271
- This website contains Miguel de Hidalgo's decree abolishing slavery: http://corvallistoday.com/Americas/latinamericacarribean/abolition_of_slavery_in_mexicoall.htm
- This website contains documents related to Agustín de Iturbide, including the Plan of Iguala and the decree in which congress sent him into exile: http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/iguala.htm#exile
- This Library of Congress website contains information about the Spanish Constitution of 1812, which was the foundation for Mexican constitutions: http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/08/discovering-the-constitution-of-cadiz/