The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the most important document in United States history after the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,†said Michael Dear, professor and chair of USC’s department of geography. Along with the USC Libraries’ collection of maps and photographs from border-drawing expeditions in the 1850s and 1890s, the treaty “tells our nation’s origin story,†Dear said.
The treaty arrived at USC as the result of a 20-year quest to bring this rare edition – one of only 17 in the United States – into the USC Libraries’ collections. “I’ve been trying to acquire the treaty since I came to USC in 1985,†said Barbara Robinson of the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.
Source: USC
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