Grade Range: 2-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary SourceDuration: 2 MinutesDate Posted: 6/15/2010
Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, acting governor of New Mexico, expresses the pain of changing loyalty from Mexico to the United States.
This video is part of the Price of Freedom learning resources package for use with the Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War lesson plan. It was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
This lithograph illustrates the chaos and conflict engulfing northern Mexico during the years of ...
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