Texas State Historical Assn Press: 21 books
José Antonio Navarro
In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas. The product...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
FEATURES OF THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2014–2015• Sketches of eight historic ranches of Texas by Texana writer Mike Cox.• Article on the Texas art and artists by Houston businessman and art collector J.P. Bryan, who has amassed the world’s largest Texana collection.• Coverage of the 2012 elections,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State and its residents. The Almanac's 66th edition is printed in full color and includes hundreds of photographs from every region of the state. Color maps of the state and each of its 254 counties show relief,...
Stephen F. Austin
Empresario of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to offer a reprint edition of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, Gregg Cantrell’s path-breaking biography of the founder of Anglo Texas. Cantrell’s portrait goes beyond the traditional interpretation of Austin as the man who spearheaded American...
A Southern Community in Crisis
Harrison County, Texas 1850-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes...
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...
Fort Concho
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. For centuries, this high open plateau had remained barren except for passing expeditions or Native American hunting parties. The establishment of Fort Concho provided...
Galveston
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Indians! Pirates! Rebels! Blockade Runners! Smugglers! Murder! Beaches! Beauty Contests! Hurricanes!
These are all a part of the colorful history of an island city that once called itself “The Free State of Galveston.” Located at a natural harbor on the northeastern part of a thirty-mile-long...
Old Red
Pioneering Medical Education in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinating page in Galveston and Texas history....
Fort Lancaster
Texas Frontier Sentinel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Today Fort Lancaster sits as a ghostly ruin in west Texas, far removed from any major highway. However, this frontier post once played a major role in the protection of the primary southern route to California after the discovery of gold. Built along Live Oak Creek near the junction with the Pecos,...
Fort Davis
Outpost on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards...
Lone Star Blue and Gray
Essays on Texas and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives...
Ima Hogg
The Governor's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daughters Ima and Ura, but that is only half-true: there never was a Ura. Ima had three brothers, Will, Mike, and Tom. Ima Hogg, who was born in 1882 and died in 1975 at age 93, became a legend in her own right,...
Texas and the Mexican War
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Written for both the specialist and the casual reader, Texas and the Mexican War discusses the pivotal role Texas played in the Mexican War, battles fought on Texas soil, and the contributions—for better or sometimes worse—of Texas troops throughout the war.
Since the opening of hostilities...
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