Trinity University Press: 154 books
The WPA Guide to New Mexico
The Colorful State
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the...
by Gregory McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was born sometime between A.D. 165 and 170 in the hill town of Praeneste, what is now Palestrina, about twenty-five miles from Rome, Italy. He grew up speaking that town’s version of Latin, a dialect...
The WPA Guide to Minnesota
The North Star State
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the...
Enchiladas
Aztec to Tex-Mex
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex is an in-depth exploration of one of Mexico’s most historic and popular foods. Illustrated with sumptuous photography, the book showcases more than sixty traditional and contemporary recipes for enchiladas, as well as recipes for the salsas, salads, and sides that accompany...
Cornyation
San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Massive regional interest in Texas
LGBT interest nationwide
The Fiesta festival happens over 11 days and includes 108 events, 101 local nonprofit member organizations
3.5 million people attend Fiesta each year
Cornyation is one of the most popular events of Fiesta, sells...
Maverick
The American Name That Became a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
By definition, a maverick is a “lone dissenter” who “takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” or “a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.” The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded...
Juan O'Gorman
A Confluence of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
To create the "Confluence of Civilizations" mural commissioned for the 1968 World's Fair in San Antonio, Texas, Juan O'Gorman collected natural stones from all over Mexico-twelve colors in all-field stones that the artist knew would never fade or change their hue. Juan O'Gorman: A Confluence of Civilizations...
by Joe Holley
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Joe Holley has an active column in the Houston Chronicle
Peter Brown's previous books published by Norton
Great regional Texas appeal: Pictures include Ivanhoe State Bank in Lipscomb, Galveston-Bolivar Ferry, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Rio Grande, Davis Mountains,...
Saving San Antonio
The Preservation of a Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three...
San Antonio
Our Story of 150 Years in the Alamo City
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
A richly illustrated compilation of more that 150 years of coverage on the history and culture of San Antonio from the pages of the San Antonio Express-News.
American Venice
The Epic Story of San Antonio's River
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
In American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, Lewis F. Fisher uncovers the evolution of San Antonio’s beloved River Walk. He shares how San Antonians refused to give up on the vital water source that provided for them from before the city’s beginnings. In 1941 neglect, civic uprisings,...
by Helen Kleberg Groves, Bill Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
King Ranch. The name is embroidered in the tapestry of Texas, rising from the sunbaked coastal plains in the infancy of the state itself. King Ranch is the inspiration of legends and speculation, tradition and history. Rawhide-tough through drought, Indian attacks, Civil War, and the Great Depression,...
Powering a City
How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
At the center of San Antonio’s growth from a small pioneering town to a major western metropolis sits CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned energy utility in the United States and an innovator in harnessing, conserving, and capitalizing on natural energy resources.
The story of modern...
The Changing Face of San Antonio
An Insider's View of an Emerging International City
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Popular San Antonio politician
Consistent regional sales on his last title