He has been doing research on Texas and Northern Mexico history, a study that focuses on the rise of border society during the early nineteenth century. Armanado C. Alonzo did his bachelors degree on American Government in the University of Notre Dame in 1972. He later pursued a master’s degree in history in University of Texas at Pan American in 1983. During his master’s course, he successfully defended and wrote his thesis on “A History of the Mexicans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Their Role in Land