University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Taking the Waters in Texas
Springs, Spas, and Fountains of Youth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"It is well known that Southern Texas possesses a greater variety of Mineral Waters than any other country on the globe" enthused a promotion for one of Texas' many watering spas of the nineteenth century. Though most are closed and nearly forgotten today, Texas spas and resorts once drew thousands of...
Germans and Texans
Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
During the brief history of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), over 10,000 Germans emigrated to Texas. Perhaps best remembered today are the farmers who settled the Texas Hill Country, yet many of the German immigrants were merchants and businesspeople who helped make Galveston a thriving international...
Where Texas Meets the Sea
Corpus Christi and Its History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
A favorite destination of visitors to the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is a midsize city that manages to be both cosmopolitan and provincial, networked and local. It is an indispensable provider of urban services to South Texas, as well as a port of international significance. Its industries and military...
Telling Stories, Writing Songs
An Album of Texas Songwriters
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Willie Nelson, Joe Ely, Marcia Ball, Tish Hinojosa, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lyle Lovett...the list of popular songwriters from Texas just goes on and on. In this collection of thirty-four interviews with these and other songwriters, Kathleen Hudson pursues the stories behind the songs, letting the singers'...
Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy
Pictures of Governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Long before movie stars Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governors of California, a popular radio personality with no previous political experience—who wasn't even registered to vote—swept into the governor's office of Texas. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was a 1930s businessman who discovered...
Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos
Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This book contains two volumes of African American folk tales collected by J. Mason Brewer. The stories included in Dog Ghosts are as varied as the Texas landscape, as full of contrasts as Texas weather. Among them are tales that have their roots deeply imbedded in African, Irish, and Welsh mythology;...
After San Jacinto
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The stage was set for conflict: The First Congress of the Republic of Texas had arbitrarily designated the Rio Grande as the boundary of the new nation. Yet the historic boundaries of Texas, under Spain and Mexico, had never extended beyond the Nueces River. Mexico, unwilling to acknowledge Texas...
Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
A Frontier Mission in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espritu Santo de Ziga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others in south Texas, was established by the Spaniards in...
The Path to a Modern South
Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and economically prosperous part of the United States. By contrast, this history of Northeast Texas,...
by John Salmon Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected...
by Alfred Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Many visitors to Texas beaches see only the sands between the surf and the first low dunes. Because few plants grow there, it's easy to get the impression that Texas beaches consist mostly of barren sand—while just the opposite is true. Beyond the dunes grow an amazing variety and abundance of native...
by Jacinto Quirarte
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows...
Thursday Night Lights
The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the...
A Thirsty Land
The Making of an American Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
“America’s Future Is Texas,” a recent New Yorker article by Lawrence Wright proclaimed. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there...