April 2009
Cover: Map of the San Jacinto Battleground
from Henderson K. Yoakum's
History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685
to its annexation to the United States in 1846
AN ALTERNATIVE POLITICS: TEXAS BAPTISTS AND THE RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, 1975–1985
BY Blake A. Ellis
FRONTIER OF DISSENT: EL REGIDOR, THE REGIME OF PORFIRIO DÍAZ, AND THE TRANSBORDER COMMUNITY
By Ana Martinez-Catsam
REASSESSING THE LOCATION OF VINCE’S BRIDGE: CRITICAL PRELUDE TO THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
By C. David Pomeroy Jr.
SOUTHWESTERN COLLECTION
BOOK REVIEWS
Gary Hartman, The History of Texas Music.
BY STEPHEN DAVIS
Roberto M. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia, editors, Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices.
BY PATRICK FOLEY
Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre, editors, Black Women in Texas History.
BY SCOTT HOLZER
Irwin Tang, editor, Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives.
BY MARY L. KELLEY
Richard Flint, No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada.
BY DONALD E. CHIPMAN
Gloria Fraser Giffords, Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530–1821.
BY JESÚS F. DE LA TEJA
H. Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith, Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier.
By FRANCIS X. GALAN
Marshall E. Kuykendall, They Slept upon Their Rifles.
By JODY EDWARD GINN
John R. McLean, editor, Voices from the Goliad Frontier.
By CAROLINA CASTILLO CRIMM
Raúl Ramos, Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861.
By GILBERTO HINOJOSA
Mary Jane Gentry, The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886–1933.
BY KEVIN M. BRADY
Casey Walsh, Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.
BY JANE MANASTER
Ellen Buie Niewyk, Jerry Bywaters, Lone Star Printmaker: A Study of His Printing Notebook with a Catalogue of His Prints and a Checklist of His Illustrations and Ephemeral Works.
BY AL LOWMAN
Evelyn Barker, A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith.
BY DAN K. UTLEY
William Roger Holman, The Orphans' Nine Commandments: A Memoir.
By HEATHER K. MICHON
Ronald L. Davis, Mary Martin, Broadway Legend.
BY BRENDA JACKSON-ABERNATHY
David Welling, Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex.
BY RON BRILEY
Gary A. Keith, Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman from Texas.
BY JEFFREY A. JOHNSON
Ruth Lance Wester and June Proctor, Ropin’ the Dream: The Story of the Ken Lance Sports Arena, 1964–1994.
BY COURT CARNEY
David Roybal, Taking on Giants: Fabián Chávez Jr. and New Mexico Politics.
BY SEAN P. CUNNINGHAM
John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley, editors, Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History.
BY JAMES B. BARRERA
Steve Bickerstaff, Lines in the Sand: Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay.
BY JAMES E. COUSAR
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