TSHA Publications: Books by Title

"History like that of Texas is rare. . . . Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of...

State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with...

The single most important book about Texas books.

"I cannot imagine a book collector, or any Texas scholar, without a copy . . . of...

Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive...

The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter of Texas Christian University. Procter describes in...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a tradition of biracial unionism sprang up among waterfront workers along the Gulf Coast....

During the 1980s, when J. R. Ewing reinforced the stereotype of the Texas oil man as a conservative, unprincipled rogue on the long-running...

With this companion volume to Winkler's great 1846-1860 checklist, the Check List of Texas Imprints became the most nearly complete...

Written by one of the deans of Texas history, Civil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil War...

Historic maps are a great untapped resource for studying aspects of social, political, and diplomatic history, the history of art, and linguistics...

Dallas first grabbed the national attention in 1936 when it hosted the Texas Centennial Exposition. Since then, the fascination with "Big D...

Eugene C. Barker, one of the most influential historians to teach at the University of Texas, has been described as "a granite monolith,...

In this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, Goetzmann argues that the exploration of the American West was not a series of...

Fifty Miles and a Fight is a rare and dramatic firsthand account of one of the most volatile and traumatic events in the long history...

In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. For...

Wooster relates the history of Fort Davis from the days when Indians and later Spaniards and Mexicans inhabited the area. Fort Davis, one of the...

Today Fort Lancaster sits as a ghostly ruin in West Texas, far removed from any major highway. However, this frontier post once played a major...

Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth...