Image of an early U.S.-Mexico border marker. From an article by Rachel St. John, whose book “Line in the Sand” is the recommended starting point for this history.

Ana María Alonso: Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s Northern Frontier.

C. J. Alvarez: Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide.

Geraldo L. Cadava: Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland.

Katherine Benton-Cohen: Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands.

Brian Delay: North American Borderlands.

Gabriela González: Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights.

Bernadine Marie Hernández: Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands.

S. Deborah Kang: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.

Jessica M. Kim: Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941.

Julian Lim: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Robert E. May: Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America.

John Mckiernan-González: Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942.

Eric V. Meeks: Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona.

Anthony P. Mora: Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912.

Andrew Needham: Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest.

Tore C. Olsson: Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside.

Andrés Reséndez: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850.

Rachel St. John: Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border.

Andrew J. Torget: Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.

Samuel Truett: Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Samuel Truett & Elliott Young: Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History.

David J. Weber: The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico.