Texas A M University Press: 358 books
by Bullock Texas State History Museum, Jan Felts Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
After two decades of searching for La Salle’s lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from the waters bore late...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press’s publication of the first volume reporting the Yassiada shipwreck site. Seventeen papers from that symposium featured in this book broadly illustrate such varied...
Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M
The First Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering. The Biological and...
Life in Bronze
Lawrence M. Ludtke, Sculptor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929–2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion.
As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball...
by Lawrence T. Jones III
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Photographs of Texas’ frontier past are valuable as both art and artifact. Recording not only the lives and surroundings of days gone by, but also the artistry of those who captured the people and their times on camera, the rare images in Lens on the Texas Frontier offer a documentary record that...
Architecture That Speaks
S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path,...
History along the Way
Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state’s highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers.
Peopled with colorful characters—a national...
Twelve Texas Aggie War Heroes
From World War I to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Following on the success of Texas Aggie Medals of Honor, James R. Woodall now returns with a new book that focuses on the military service by graduates of Texas A&M University from World War I to Vietnam. Of the tens of thousands of Aggies who served in the nation’s military, Woodall has selected...
Circuit Riders for Mental Health
The Hogg Foundation in Twentieth-Century Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Circuit Riders for Mental Health explores for the first time the transformation of popular understandings of mental health, the reform of scandal-ridden hospitals and institutions, the emergence of community mental health services, and the extension of mental health services to minority populations...
Miles and Miles of Texas
100 Years of the Texas Highway Department
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast...
Enduring Legacy
The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing,...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
The Texas Hill Country
A Photographic Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Like many Texans, Michael H. Marvins has been making regular pilgrimages to the Hill Country for much of his life. Traveling the back roads of the Texas Hill Country, cameras always poised for action, Marvins has captured the excitement of small-town rodeos, savored the mesquite-smoked atmosphere...
Letters to Alice
Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, “Princess...