# overview
A native of the Lower Valley of Texas, professor Alonzo received his Ph.D. in History from Indiana University in 1991 and has taught at Southwest Texas State University and the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests are the history of Tejanos and Borderlands of Mexico and the U.S. He is the author of Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900, published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1998. With funding from the National Research Council, he is currently studying the history of Texas and Northern Mexico in the period 1700-1865.

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - (Edinburg, Texas, United States)

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University of Notre Dame - (Notre Dame, Indiana, United States)

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Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas (review)

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River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands by Omar S. Valerio-Jimnez (review)

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Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900

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L'impacte dels mexicans en el creixement econmic del Texas del sud, 1848-1930

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A History of Tejano, Anglo, and Black Relations in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1750-1980s

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Knight without armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958

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Spanish Colonial Research Center at the University of New Mexico

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Review of The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, David R. Maciel

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Mexicanos: A history of Mexicans in the United States

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Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900

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The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876

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Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water Conservation Movement in South Texas, 1940s to Present

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Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900.

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Communidades mexicanas en Texas: Oportunidades economicas y conflicto social, 1848-1880

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Hispanic farmers and ranchers in the soil and water conservation movement in South Texas, 1940s to present

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Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora: The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser

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Commentary on 'Reconditioning History' (M.T. Hernandez)

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A history of ranching in Nuevo Santander's Villas del Norte, 1730s-1848

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CESU-Researching Indigenous Communities along El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail in Central and Southwest Texas

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National Park Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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Historians question Texas' push to promote 'patriotic education' through new laws