University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Hugh W. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On April 16, 1947, a small fire broke out among bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the hold of the ship Grandcamp as it lay docked at Texas City, Texas. Despite immediate attempts to extinguish the fire, it rapidly intensified until the Grandcamp exploded in a blast that caused massive loss of life...
Another Year Finds Me in Texas
The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War made returning home impossible. Stranded in enemy...
by Fred Tarpley
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
From Notrees to Pine Island, from Scotland to Moscow, from Dickens to Tennyson, from Spur to Lariat, from Buck Naked to Bald Prairie—Texans are unsurpassed for the imaginative names they give their towns and cities. Fred Tarpley has chosen 1001 of the most unusual and interesting of the 75,000 place...
They Called Them Greasers
Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.This seminal work in the historical...
by Howard Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Whether you're a first-time homeowner, dedicated gardener, or landscape professional, if you're gardening on the Gulf Coast, you need Howard Garrett's Plants for Houston and the Gulf Coast. Garrett is one of Texas's top organic gardening experts, and gardeners rely on him for accurate, sensible advice...
LULAC
The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is one of the best-known and active national organizations that represent Mexican Americans and their political interests. Since its founding in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1929, it has served as a vehicle through which Mexican Americans can strive...
by Juan Bautista Chapa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nuevo León for the years 1630 to 1690. Although his Historia de Nuevo León was not published until 1909,...
by Robert E. Veselka
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning...
Texas in 1837
An Anonymous, Contemporary Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Written anonymously in 1838–39 by a "Citizen of Ohio," Texas in 1837 is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic. Providing information nowhere else available, the still-unknown author describes a land rich in potential but at the time "a more suitable arena for those who...
Red Scare
Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.
Bob Bullock
God Bless Texas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texas—as well as his equally fierce rages and unpredictable temper—Bob Bullock was the most powerful political figure in Texas at the end of the twentieth century. First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1956, Bullock held several...
The Texas Supreme Court
A Narrative History, 1836–1986
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women’s rights and the protection of debtors.” Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court....
Texas Log Buildings
A Folk Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log...
The State Library and Archives of Texas
A History, 1835-1962
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this...