Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History

The 2013 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History

$2,000

The Tullis Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the best book on Texas published during the calendar year. The winning author for 2013 will be presented a certificate and $2,000 at the Association's annual meeting in March 2014. Judges may withhold the award at their discretion.

Publishers should submit an entry form and three (3) copies of each entry published and copyrighted in 2013 to the TSHA office by October 11, 2013. Books published after October 11.  but copyrighted during the calendar year will be accepted until December 15.

Tullis Memorial Prize
Texas State Historical Association
1155 Union Circle #311580
Denton, TX 76203-5017

The Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize was established in 1967 by her children, John L. Tullis and Mrs. W. D. (Jean Tullis) White Sr. The prize honors Mrs. Tullis for all that she accomplished on behalf of history while teaching at the University of Texas at Austin for thirty-five years and during her forty-year tenure as treasurer and corresponding Secretary of the Texas State Historical Association.

Past Recipients

2012 Jan Reid Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
2011 Michael Ariens Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas
2010 Gary M. Lavergne Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
2009 Emilio Zamora Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II
2008 James Smallwood The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin and Violence in Texas
2007 Jane C. Monday and Frances B. Vick Petra's Legacy
2006 Dwonna Goldstone Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas
2005 Andrés Reséndez Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico 1800-1850
2004 Carlos Kevin Blanton The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1936-1981
2003 Patrick Carroll Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
2002 James L. Haley Sam Houston
2001 Walter L. Buenger The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
2000 Ignacio M. García Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot
1999 Rebecca Sharpless Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
1998 Elizabeth York Enstam Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920
1997 Elizabeth Hayes Turner Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
1996 Mark J. Stegmaier Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis
1995 Robert S. Weddle Changing Tides: Twilight & Dawn in the Spanish Sea, 1763-1803
1994 Richard B. McCaslin Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
1993 Gregg Cantrell Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Discontent
1992 Paul D. Lack The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836
1991 Cynthia A. Brandimarte Inside Texas: Culture, Identity, and Houses, 1878-1920
1990 Harold M. Hyman Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854-1980
1989 Randolph Campbell An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865
1988 J'Nell L. Pate Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987
1987 Robin Doughty At Home in Texas: Early View of the Land
1986 Don Carleton Red Scare: Right-wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas
1985 Dan L. Flores Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806
1984 Marilyn M. Sibley Lone Stars and State Gazettes
1983 Elizabeth Silverthorne Ashbel Smith of Texas

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