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Great publications from our members and award recipients.

These books were authored by members of TSHA or received one of TSHA’s book awards. They are provided here for reference and support of the historical content they contain.

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Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862

In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five North Texas counties and brought them to Gainesville, the seat of Cooke County. In the ensuing days, at least forty-four of the prisoners were hanged, and several other men were lynched in neighboring communities. This event proved to be the grisly climax of a heritage of violence and vigilantism in North Texas that began before the Civil War and lasted long afterward.

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By Richard B. McCaslin

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Discontent

In this fascinating story of two nineteenth-century southern political mavericks, Gregg Cantrell details their fate as dissenters, telling a human story at once heroic and shameful, hopeful and tragic. The two mavericks were the slaveholding congressman and planter Kenneth Rayner of North Carolina and his illegitimate mulatto son, John B. Rayner of Texas.

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By Gregg Cantrell, Ph.D.

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854-1980

The complete archives of the Kempner family papers housed at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston provided the primary source material for this work, and Harold Hyman's further research provides a backdrop of social, political, and religious factors affecting four generations of Kempners in Galveston. The result is a story about large, diverse family businesses, Progressive urban reform and community development, the acculturation of American and Southern Jews, and the dynamics of life, politics, and the economy in Southeast Texas.

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By Harold M. Hyman

Available for purchase at Legacy of Texas .

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865

Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and incorrectly perceived as fundamentally western in its political and social orientation. In fact, most of the settlers of this area were emigrants from the South, and many of these people brought with them their slaves and all aspects of slavery as it had matured in their native states.

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By Randolph B. Campbell, Ph.D.

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987

A hundred years ago a simple business arrangement changed the course of Fort Worth's economy for years to come and its character perhaps forever. On July 26, 1887, the Union Stock Yards Company received a charter to do business in an area just north of town. The legacy of that charter: Cowtown.

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By J'Nell L. Pate

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

At Home in Texas: Early View of the Land

By Robin Doughty

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Red Scare: Right-wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

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By Don Carleton

Available for purchase at Legacy of Texas .

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806

The complete story of a scientific expedition planned by President Thomas Jefferson to reconnoiter the recently purchased Louisiana Territory by ascending the Red River to its supposed sources n the mountains near Santa Fe, then traveling overland to the Arkansas River and down that stream to civilization.

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By Dan L. Flores

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Lone Stars and State Gazettes

Uncommon men spread the uncommon news of Texas. From the time a press first reached Texas in 1813 until the Civil War, some four hundred newspapers appeared to chronicle the development of a nation, then a state. Most were propaganda or special-purpose sheets that allowed their owners to support or oppose the day’s leading figures–including Mirabeau B. Lamar and Sam Houston–or causes–the Texan Revolution, annexation, Know-Nothingism, secession. A few papers brought the higher standards of journalism to Texas and preserve, through their reports and comments, much of the history they also influenced.

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By Marilyn McAdams Sibley

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Ashbel Smith of Texas

Though three times burned in effigy for his political activities, Ashbel Smith was an admired and influential leader in nineteenth-century Texas. A doctor educated at Yale and abroad, the "father of Texas medicine" championed higher standards of medical practice and helped found the state's medical society. He worked persistently to establish free public education in Texas and in his later years led the way in founding Prairie View State Normal School, the University of Texas (which he also served as regent), and the university's medical school at Galveston.

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By Elizabeth Silverthorne

Available for purchase at Legacy of Texas .

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Time of Hope, Time of Despair

By James M. Smallwood

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.

Marvin Jones: The Public Life of an Agrarian Advocate

Son of a north Texas wheat- and cotton-farming family, Marvin Jones grew up with strong agrarian roots and a taste for Democratic politics. Elected to Congress in 1916, he joined the Texas delegation and learned the political ropes from John Nance Garner. Named to the House Agriculture Committee, Jones later became its chairman and directed the destiny of New Deal agricultural legislation in the House of Representatives.

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By Irvin May

Recipient of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History.