FROM THE EDITOR
The Spanish Frontier in North America
David J. Weber

HISTORIOGRAPHY
The Spanish Borderlands of North America: A Historiography
David J. Weber

ARTICLES
How Cruel Were the Spaniards?
Iris H. W. Engstrand

Reconstructing a Spanish Mission: San Luis de Talimali
Bonnie G. McEwan and John H. Hann

Missions and Moral Judgment
Amy Turner Bushnell

A Spanish Borderlands Community: San Antonio
Frank F. de la Teja

Hispanas and Hispanos in a Mestizo Society
Antonia I. Castañeda

LESSON PLANS
Pecos Pueblo: Where Cultures Meet
Frances Levine, Gini Griego, Wendy Leighton,
and Dino Roybal

A Bishop's Description of the Christianized Indians of Spanish Florida, 1675
Peter A. Cowdrey Jr.

Life in Presidial California
Gloria Ricci Lothrop and Michelle Herczog

Spanish Colonization of New Spain: Benevolent? Malevolent? Indifferent?
Melinda K. Blade

Welcome to the Settlement of the New World: A Brochure for Newcomers
Sonia Yvonne Escobedo

PERSONALITY PROFILE
David Hurst Thomas and the Historical Archaeology of the Spanish Borderlands
James E. Snead

HISTORY HEADLINES