Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Cadets on Campus
History of Military Schools of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Since the founding of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1802, more than eight hundred military schools have existed in this country. The vast majority have closed their doors, been absorbed into other educational institutions, or otherwise faded away, but others soldier on, adapting...
Called to Serve
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs.
The...
Art from the Trenches
America's Uniformed Artists in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Since ancient times, wars have inspired artists and their patrons to commemorate victories. When the United States finally entered World War I, American artists and illustrators were commissioned to paint and draw it. These artists’ commissions, however, were as captains for their patron: the U.S....
The Nueces River
Río Escondido
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history both...
Taking the Measure
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Some of today’s most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.
With...
Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior
Term Limits and Executive Action in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Presidents of nations with constitutionally imposed term limits are often viewed as growing weaker as they approach the end of their time in office. However, in this important new study, political scientist Genevieve M. Kehoe argues that because such chief executives are free from reelection constraint...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
Reagan at Westminster
Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones...
by Norman C. Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older...
Spirit
The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the...
Blind over Cuba
The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the “photo gap”: five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...
A Raid Too Far
Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border. This movement would be the first real test of Vietnamization, Pres. Richard Nixon’s program...
From the Frio to Del Rio
Travel Guide to the Western Hill Country and the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy...