Alex Mendoza
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Alex Mendoza

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Alexander Mendoza is an associate professor at the University of North Texas. He is the author of the book, Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2026).

Prior publications include Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West (2008), Chickamauga, 1863: Rebel Breakthrough (2013). His articles, “‘For Our Own Best Interests’: Nineteenth Century Laredo Tejanos, Military Service, and the Development of American Nationalism,” in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (October 2011) and “‘I Know No Other Country’: Mexican Texans and the Wars of the Twentieth Century, 1917-1970,” in Military History of the West (February 2012), analyze the rationale of Mexican Texans behind military service. He is also a co-editor, along with Charles D. Grear, of Texans at War: New Interpretations of the State’s Military History (2012). His current research focuses on War and Society and Texas History with an emphasis on Tejanos and the Border.

A native of the Texas-Mexico border, Mendoza received his PhD at Texas Tech University.
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