Chapter 7
Video Resources
- This video illustrates the history of the Zócolo, the huge plaza in Mexico City, from pre-Hispanic era to the present. Although it's in Spanish, the video in rich in images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZwzzwTMm7k (5:58)
Links
- 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 PBS website contains biographical information about Antonio López de Santa Anna: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/santaanna.htm
- This website contains a biography of the conservative thinker and politician Lucas Alamán: http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/alamanbio.htm
- This website contains photographs of key sites of the Caste War in Yucatán: http://www.genocidetext.net/gaci_yucatan.htm
- This website contains an overview of the Caste War in Yucatán and suggests related bibliography: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0039.xml
- This website contains poems that make fun of Santa Anna's leg: http://inside.sfuhs.org/dept/history/Mexicoreader/Chapter4/poemssantaannaleg.htm
- This website discusses the Plan of Ayutla and the liberals who fought for it: http://mexicanhistory.org/Ayutla.htm
- This website contains letters from the Francis Calderón de la Barca, wife of the Spanish ambassador and astute observer of nineteenth-century Mexico: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/calderon/mexico/mexico.html
- This website contains key selected writings from
nineteenth-century Mexico: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook32.asp#Mexico