Wesleyan University Romance Languages and Literatures Mexican History, through the Lens of it’s Lexicographers: Accompanied by a Dictionary of Present-day Mexican Slang, Created by the Author by Michael Solomon King Class of 2016 A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in Hispanic Language and Literature Middletown, Connecticut April 2016