October 2011
Vol No.:
CXV
Refugio Benavides, Atanacio Vidaurri, Cristobal Benavides, and John Z. Leyendecker, Confederate officers from Laredo, Texas. UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 072-3258, Courtesy St. Mary’s University Archives (San Antonio, Texas). In this month’s issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Alex Mendoza examines the complex factors that shaped the loyalties of Tejano soldiers from Laredo, such as the Benavides brothers pictured here, in his article, “For Our Own Best Interests”: Nineteenth-Century
Laredo Tejanos, Military Service, and the Development of American Nationalism.”
Table of Contents:
Contents
“FOR OUR OWN BEST INTERESTS”: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAREDO TEJANOS, MILITARY SERVICE, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM
By Alex Mendoza
CONQUERING THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE: LYNDON JOHNSON, C. VANN WOODWARD, AND “THE IRONY OF SOUTHERN HISTORY”
By Mitchell Lerner
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
FROM THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM SHIRLEY DAY: HIS JOURNEY FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO TEXAS IN 1881
By Chris Weaving
Southwestern Collection
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Richard C. Rattenbury, Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo.
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Bobby D. Weaver, Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch.
BY KAY GOLDMAN
James R. Woodall, Texas Aggie Medals of Honor.
BY WILLIAM MCWHORTER
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Melodie Cuate, Journey to La Salle’s Settlement.
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BY STACEY L. SMITH
Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico.
BY WILLIAM M. CLEMENTS
Craig Miner, A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862.
BY MARSHALL SCHOTT
Tom Reilly, War with Mexico! America’s Reporters Cover the Battlefront.
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Stephen L. Moore, Volume IV 1842–1845: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas.
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David McDonald, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas.
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Kimberly Harper, White Man’s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894–1909.
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BY T. LINDSAY BAKER
Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith., Texas through Women’s Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience.
BY JESSICA R. PLILEY
Charles S. Martin, Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890 –1980.
BY JORGE IBER
Neil Foley, Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity.
BY CYTHNIA OROZCO
William S. Clayson, Freedom is Not Enough: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas.
BY MARY C. BRENNAN
Elizabeth B. Murfee and Jack L. August Jr., Play by Play: Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater.
BY JOHN AKERS
