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Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery, the American Revolution, and the early republic. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for William Cooper's Town in 1996 and for The Internal Enemy in 2014. The Internal Enem...
Patricia Limerick is an American historian whose work focuses on the history of the American West, including questions of conquest, race, environment, and relations between different communities. Her 1987 book The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West challenged accounts that tr...
David J. Weber (1940-2010) was an American historian whose scholarship focused on the Spanish borderlands, Mexico, and the American Southwest. His books, including The Spanish Frontier in North America, examined the interaction of Indigenous peoples, Spanish institutions, Mexican society, and the ex...
Tex-Mex cuisine is a regional American style originating in Texas, created by Tejanos as a fusion of traditional Mexican food and American ingredients. It differs from interior Mexican cooking by relying heavily on yellow cheese, ground beef, wheat flour, and cumin, which was introduced by immigrant...
The Rio Grande Plain is a vast agricultural and ranching area in southern Texas, notable for its subtropical climate and proximity to the Mexican border.
