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We would also like to thank the UTSA History Club, UTSA Department of History, UTSA Mexico Center, UTSA CEDISH, and the Mija, Listen podcast. We hope that you join us for our episode “Mexican American Women Warriors.” (3/3)

There is still much scholarship left to discuss on the topic but we hope that we were able to give you brief insight into a different perspective regarding the war. (2/3)

@UTSA_CEDISH @utsa_history Thank you for sticking along as we briefly discussed our project into the role of women during and after the U.S. war with Mexico. (1/3)

Sources: Christopher Conway, “SISTERS AT WAR: Mexican Women’s Poetry and the U.S.-Mexican War,” Latin American Research Review 47, no. 1 (2012): 8. doi:10.1353/lar.2012.0031. “Women in the U.S.-Mexican War (U.S. National Park Service),” n.d. nps.gov/articles/women…. (2/2)

This poem written by a group of female authors in, “Marcha que la junta patriótica”, depicts the how many women were feeling in regard to the U.S. war with Mexico. Please join us to further discuss how the U.S.-Mexico war impacted women during and after. (1/2)

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Sources: George Kendall, “The Mexican Joan of Arc.” In The U.S. War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents, ed. Ernesto Chavez, (Boston, Mass: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008).

Their role in the war was widely discussed by both sides as seen in George Wilkins Kendall’s, an American correspondent during the Mexican American war, article, ““The Mexican Joan of Arc. (2/3)

@UTSA_CEDISH @utsa_history Did you know that women during the U.S.- Mexico war worked as nurses, spies, smugglers, soldiers, and more. (1/3)

Scharf, Thomas. “María Amparo Ruiz Burton .” San Diego History Center | San Diego, CA | Our City, Our Story, 27 Sept. 2016, sandiegohistory.org/journal/1984/j…. (4/4)

Sources: Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 164. (3/4)

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Source: Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 163. (3/3)

The book was originally published under the pseudonym H. S. Burton. Join us in our podcast, part of the AmpID series, to learn more about Maria Amparo various accomplishments. (2/3)

@UTSA_CEDISH @utsa_history Did you know that Maria Amparo de Burton published the first English-language book written by a Latina in the United States in 1872 called, “Who Would Have Thought It?.” (1/3)

Source: Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 165.

Originally published under the pseudonym, C Loyal, this novel was where she was able to bring attention to the struggles that many Californians, and Mexican Americans, were dealing with after the U.S. Mexico war. (2/3)

@UTSA_CEDISH @utsa_history María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the author of The Squatter and the Don, written in 1885. (1/3)