TSHA Publications: Books by Title
For more than five years award-winning photographer Geoff Winningham explored and photographed Buffalo Bayou, the Houston Ship Channel, and the... |
First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State and its residents. The Almanac's 66th edition is... |
Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas's easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern town of 7,500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial... |
The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as the Lone Star State's landscape. According to Casey Monahan, Director of the... |
Shortly before his fourteenth birthday, John Christopher Columbus Hill left home with his father and older brother to join the ill-fated 1842... |
Women played a vital and, until recently, frequently overlooked role in the settlement of the American West. They were not only mothers,... |
With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William... |
Abner Cook has long been acknowledged as the most important architect in antebellum Texas, but this extensively illustrated volume is the first to... |
"This is a highly significant, major contribution to the documentation of early Texas history, and greatly adds to the broadening... |
Cabeza de Vaca's mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the sixteenth century, fits one dictionary... |
First published in 1959, this book tells the story of the U.S. Army's role in exploring the trans-Mississippi West, particularly the role of the... |
Named after Mexican War general William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1849. More than a century and a half later, the...
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Black leaders in Texas, both men and women, have contributed numerous examples of perseverance and triumph. This volume examines the lives of... |
Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter... |
The Civil War on the Rio Grande frontier began in Zapata County only days after the first shots of the bloody conflict were fired at Fort Sumter,... |
Documents of Texas History, a valuable reference work for students, teachers, scholars, and history aficionados, provides an in-depth,... |
El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
El Llano Estacado, a major new work of Western history, reveals the historical heart of one of the world's unique regions—the enormous... |
The First Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau, compiled in 1887, is an unique window into understanding the people, towns, countries,... |
This long-forgotten eyewitness account of the Texas Revolution has been translated into English for the first time. Gen. Vicente Filisola was... |
How did they do it? How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy,... |
