Bauer, Karl Jack (1992). The Mexican War: 1846–1848. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6107-5.
De Voto, Bernard, Year of Decision 1846 (1942), well written popular history
Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2012). ISBN 9780307592699 and Corresponding Author Interview at the Pritzker Military Library on December 7, 2012
Guardino, Peter. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2017). ISBN 978-0-674-97234-6
Henderson, Timothy J. A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (2008)
Meed, Douglas. The Mexican War, 1846–1848 (2003). A short survey.
Merry Robert W. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009)
Smith, Justin Harvey. The War with Mexico, Vol 1. (2 vol 1919).
Smith, Justin Harvey. The War with Mexico, Vol 2. (1919).