Module Four Activity: Historical Narratives

HIS 100 Module Four Activity: Historical Narratives

Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary Sources

• brown university. (1848). Abraham Lincoln on the Mexican-American War. Retrieved

from https://library.brown.edu/create/modernlatinamerica/chapters/chapter-14-the-united-

states-and-latin-america/primary-documents-w-accompanying-discussion-

questions/abraham-lincoln-on-the-mexican-american-war-1846-48/.

• Fernández de Madrid y Canal, J. (1846). Dupee Mexican History Collection Broadsides.

Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_670/

Secondary Sources

• Watson, S. J. (2018). The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War.

• Rodríguez Sumano, A. (2020). Avoiding conflict? United States and Mexico future

security and defense scenarios.

Compare the narratives presented in your primary and secondary sources relevant to your

historical event.

There are four sources mentioned above and all of them are relevant to the USA Mexican

war. there are two primary sources and two secondary sources. The narrative presented in both

the primary and secondary sources are about the consequences and history of war but there are

some significant differences among them. The primary sources addressed the one side of

incident. For example, the speech by King Martin and Dupee documents presented the positive

side of Mexico and did not inform us of the details of history of event. On the other hand, the

secondary sources published by Watson and Rodriguez presented the different narrative. Martin

released a speech in House of Representatives and showed that Mexico took the right step by