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The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
James Oakes · Knopf
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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This study analyzes the market economy of the South, the people and groups that constituted the class of slaveholders, and the paradox of a Southern ideology, rooted in the economy, that emphasized equality of opportunity, patriotism, democracy, and racism |
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The North American Indians in early photographs
Paula Richardson Fleming · Harper & Row
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A photographic book providing a record of the Indians of North America between 1850 and the First World War as seen by early photographers. From the first pictures, prompted by a sense of curiosity, to the later images capturing the change in the Indian way of life, these photographs document... |
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Why Texans Fought in the Civil War
Charles D Grear · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover
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In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources - including thousands of letters and unpublished journals - he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants'... |
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Texas in Transition
Bill Broyles · Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
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Among those contributing to the volume are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry; Journalist Bill Broyles, Paul Burka, Alison Cook, Ronnie Dugger, and Molly Ivins; humorist John Henry Faulk; San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros; Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower; State Senator... |
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Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph
Ruthe Winegarten · Univ of Texas Pr
Pages: 427
Format: Hardcover
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Women of all colors have shaped families, communities, institutions, and societies throughout history, but only in recent decades have their contributions been widely recognized, described, and celebrated. This book presents the first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously... |
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Napoleon: A Biography
Frank McLynn · Arcade Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Author McLynn explores the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the chaotic years of the French Revolution and his extraordinary military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, to his fatal decision in 1812 to add Russia to his seemingly endless conquests, and his ultimate... |
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They Came from the Sky: The Spanish Arrive in Texas
Stephen Harrigan · University of Texas Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 2018, the University of Texas Press will publish the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf, a major new history of Texas by Stephen Harrigan, the New York Times best-selling author. The Texas Bookshelf promises to be the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor... |
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Wesselhoeft: Traded to the Enemy
Shirley Anderson Wesselhoeft · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
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Wesselhoeft is the story of an innocent six-year-old American boy who was caught up in the events of World War II. No longer playing on the beach in Chicago, going to school and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, he and his parents were suddenly taken away to a desolate internment camp... |
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The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
Mike Cox · Forge
Pages: 512
Format: Book
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Texas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas... |
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The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City
Jan-Andrew Henderson · Mainstream Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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The story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall and, unable to expand its boundaries, it became the most densely populated city in Europe. When buildings could... |
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Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past
William Cronon · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past |
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Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Thomas M. Myers · Puma Pr; 1st edition
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders. Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation... |
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The Innovative University
Daniel Philip Resnick · Carnegie Mellon
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
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How can a small university like Carnegie Mellon have such a big impact on the world? Ironically, being small is a key reason the university is so prolific. An intimate environment, coupled with an extraordinary ratio of world-class thinkers, has produced a culture of collaboration that... |
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