University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Real Role Models
Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
All young people need good role models, and black youth especially need positive and real examples beyond the famous and wealthy people they see on SportsCenter highlights and MTV Cribs. While success as a celebrity athlete or entertainer may seem like an achievable dream, the reality is that young...
The Texas Book Two
More Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In every corner of the sprawling enterprise that is the University of Texas at Austin, you will find teaching, research, artistic creation, and sports achievement that are among the best in the world. Mandated by the Texas constitution to be “a university of the first class,” UT Austin strives...
Texas Crossings
The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!” exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and “get-ahead” spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the “crossings” that have characterized...
by Walter Keene Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Conservation and development of natural resources are issues of critical importance throughout the world. These issues have been matters of public concern in Texas since legislators first adopted the state-sponsored geological survey as a means of extending government funds to private citizens who...
by Robert A. Vines
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas, an area roughly the region of the Edwards Plateau and bordered by the Balcones Escarpment on the south and east, the Pecos River on the west, and the Texas Plains and the Llano Uplift...
by Harry Huntt Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the best in the nation. No one had more to do with that extraordinary achievement than Harry Huntt Ransom. From 1935 to his death in 1976, he served the University...
George W. Brackenridge
Maverick Philanthropist
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
George W. Brackenridge (1832–1920) was a paradox to his fellow Texans. A Republican in a solidly Democratic state, a financier in a cattleman's country, a Prohibitionist in the goodtime town of San Antonio, he devoted his energies to making a fortune only to give it to philanthropic causes. Indiana...
Parson Henry Renfro
Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The years following the Texas Revolution held even more turbulent events as diverse droves of pioneers crossed the Sabine and Red Rivers to start new lives in Texas. Early Texas society contended with religious issues, family life in a rugged environment, and the Civil War. This cultural history was...
The Galveston Era
The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The "Queen City" of Texas they called her—or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas—or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was...
The Trail Drivers of Texas
Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas—those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life stories—some humorous,...
The Taft Ranch
A Texas Principality
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as the...
by Richard "Cactus" Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
From the town that brought you Molly Ivins, Liz Carpenter, John Henry Faulk, and Greater Tuna, here's Cactus Pryor. For decades, Cactus' wit and wisdom have delighted radio listeners, as well as the many social, political, business, and philanthropic groups throughout the United States whose functions...
by Katie Robinson Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radical...
by Robert A. Vines
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state—the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas. Eastern, northern, Gulf coast, and western Texas trees occur together in the Big Thicket area of the Pineywoods, where...