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Remember Goliad!
A History of La Bahía
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
When Sam Houston's revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence for Texas, their battle cry was "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Everyone knows about the Alamo, but far fewer know about the stirring events at Goliad. Craig Roell's lively new study of Goliad brings...
Violence in Lincoln County, 1869-1881
Facsimile of 1957 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Lincoln County, New Mexico was once one of the largest counties in the United States and was the setting for a famous feud which lit up the horizon of history. Here between 1869 and 1881 were all the explosive ingredients for violence. On one side of the county was the Mescalero Apache reservation....
Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they...
A Knight of Another Sort
Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made him popular. The stuff of legend, he was part monster, part Robin Hood. In the early days, he would emerge from...
Kentucky Confederates
Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase -- bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east...
by James W. Pohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world." James W. Pohl, a noted military historian, tells the exciting story of the pivotal battle of the Texas Revolution.
Imperial Texas
An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Imperial Texas examines the development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state. In this study in cultural geography set into a historical framework, D. W. Meinig, professor of geography at Syracuse University, discusses the...
by Angela Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents...
Connecticut Town Greens
History of the State's Common Centers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The state of Connecticut has 170 town or village greens that still exist today. These greens date back to Colonial times where they served as the physical and spiritual centers for these early towns. Today many town greens continue to be the center of town events, fairs, and other gatherings. Connecticut...
Fort Worth
A Texas Original!
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None of these descriptions quite tells the story of this city and its people. Since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century as a military outpost, Fort Worth has gone...
It Happened in Ohio
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thirty episodes from the history of the Buckeye State, including memorable events such as the Kent State Riots, but also featuring lesser-known tales.
Bayou Classic
The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. The most significant national game to feature historically black colleges and universities is more...
Ante-Bellum Alabama
Town and Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Ante-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country was written to give the reader insight into importaant facers of Alabama’s ante-bellum history. Presented in the form of case studies from the pre—Civil War period, the book deals with a city, a town, a planter’s family, rural social life, attitudes...
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 5 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert...