Las Cruces, in southwestern New Mexico, is nourished by the Rio Grande River and the fertile Mesilla Valley, surrounded by the Chihuahuan Desert and backed in the east ...

Several hundred years later, after the Mexican War culminated in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the United States government acquired jurisdiction over the area. The emergence of ...

The war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the U.S. later purchased a small amount of border land to build a railroad in the Gadsden Purchase. Attracting considerable attention in the ...

Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

Based on this treaty, Mexico ceded 55 per cent of its territory, which included present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: The American spirit.

The member of the left-wing Morena Party lamented that Mexico was "stripped" of about one-third of its territory via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War.

The U.S. actually paid for the states it acquired from Mexico after winning the war and in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo even agreed to pay the debts they owed American citizens.

Photos from the week of June 8: * Williams Valley senior Audrina Fry (8) catches a pop up as Williams Valley takes on South Williamsport in the PIAA 2A semifinals at Central Columbia Elementary ...

Some photos from the press opening of "Superfine" are below. Attendees at a press preview for the Met's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on May 5.

Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.

Here are historic photos from D-Day. 'We had a job' to do: Humble veteran, 100, recalls D-Day 81 years later 'Welcome home': Iowan killed on D-Day to be buried on 81st anniversary of his death ...