University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Parks for Texas
Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining...
Texas by Terán
The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Texas was already slipping from the grasp of Mexico when Manuel Mier y Terán made his tour of inspection in 1828. American settlers were pouring across the vaguely defined border between Mexico's northernmost province and the United States, along with a host of Indian nations driven off their lands...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation...
The Laws of Slavery in Texas
Historical Documents and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas...
Red State
An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. The newly elected vice president, Lyndon Johnson, was a Texan. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions. The state legislature had 181 Democrats and no Republicans or anyone else. Then fast forward fifty years to November 2010....
The Power of the Texas Governor
Connally to Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
George W. Bush called it "the best job in the world," yet many would argue that the Texas governorship is a weak office. Given few enumerated powers by the Texas Constitution, the governor must build a successful relationship with the state legislature—sometimes led by a powerful lieutenant governor...
Texas Through Women's Eyes
The Twentieth-Century Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Texas women broke barriers throughout the twentieth century, winning the right to vote, expanding their access to higher education, entering new professions, participating fully in civic and political life, and planning their families. Yet these major achievements have hardly been recognized in histories...
Texas Takes Wing
A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Tracing the hundred-year history of aviation in Texas, aviator and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of this industry in the state. Weaving stories and profiles of aviators, designers, manufacturers, and those in related...
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico
Urbanization by Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available...
The Governor's Hounds
The Texas State Police, 1870–1873
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever...
Políticas
Latina Public Officials in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
In the decades since Latinas began to hold public office in the United States in the late 1950s, they have blazed new trails in public life, bringing fresh perspectives, leadership styles, and policy agendas to the business of governing cities, counties, states, and the nation. As of 2004, Latinas...
by Marilyn McAdams Sibley
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761–1860. This was the century of exploration and settlement for the big new land, and many thousands of people traveled its trails: traders, revolutionaries, missionaries, warriors, government agents, adventurers, refugees, gold...
Once Upon a Time in Texas
A Liberal in the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Once upon a time in Texas...there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant and more tolerable. David Richards was one of them. In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and...
by Patrick Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the...