History

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - 1753-1811. Catholic Encyclopedia gives a summary of the life of the priest whose "Grito from Dolores" launched the war for independence.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16045a.htm

Historical Text Archive - An online collection of relevant historical texts on Mexico.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=21

Retracing the Route of the Conquistadors across Contemporary Mexico - Articles by Peter Rashkin on the Spanish conquest and the Zapatista revolt, with travelogues and photos. <small>(1997)</small>
http://thedagger.com/archive/conquest/conquest1.html

National Security Archive's Mexico Project - US and Mexican government documents relating to the "dirty war", foreign policy, and the role of the military.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/mexico/

Brown University Library: Three for Three Million - Information about the Paul R. Dupee Jr. '65 Mexican History Collection in the John Hay Library, including maps and photos of books.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/ThreeForThree/Mexican.html

The Cristeros - Article and photos on the 20th century Catholic uprising. <small>(January, 2002)</small>
http://www.sspx.ca/Angelus/2002_January/The_Cristeros.htm

Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico - In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were written shortly after the conquest. From the Modern History Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html

Mexico in the Context of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - A discussion of the slave trade which brought Africans to the country, and contemporary issues of their descendents in Veracruz and Costa Chica. <small>(January, 2001)</small>
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dialogo/back_issues/issue_5/mexico_slave_trade.htm

History of Mexico - Provides a history of Mexico from ancient times to today.
http://www.historyofnations.net/northamerica/mexico.html

The History of Mexico - A host of links to information about the people, wars, events, and milestones in Mexican History, including the Aztecs, the Mayans, Pancho Vila, Santa Anna, the Mexican-American War, NAFTA, the Alamo, Cortez, and a timeline of Mexican history.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/mexico/

Mexico: From Empire to Revolution - Photographs from the Getty Research Institute's collections exploring Mexican history and culture though images produced between 1857 and 1923.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/