Texas A M University Press imprint: 357 books

by David La Vere
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003

During an excavation in the 1950s, the bones of a prehistoric woman were discovered in Midland County, Texas. Archaeologists dubbed the woman “Midland Minnie.” Some believed her age to be between 20,000 and 37,000 years, making her remains the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere. While...
by John A. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

By any measure, the battles of Bataan and Corregidor were among the most intensely fought and devastating episodes in the World War II Pacific theater. Beginning in early 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines in an attempt to control the Pacific region and expand its sphere of influence....
by Angela Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018

Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents...

Changing Texas

Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge

by Steve H. Murdock, Michael E. Cline, Mary A. Zey
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge examine key issues related to future Texas population change and its socioeconomic implications....

Clovis Lithic Technology

Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas

by Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015

For fifteen years, the Texas Master Naturalist program has been hugely successful, training more than 9,600 volunteers who have given almost 2.8 million hours to nature education. This dedicated corps of naturalists provides teaching, outreach, and service in their communities, promoting the appreciation...
by James B. Blackburn Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of...

Jane's Window

My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin

by Jane Dunn Sibley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...

Texas State Parks and the CCC

The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps

by Cynthia A. Brandimarte, Angela S. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013

From Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border, the state parks of Texas are home not only to breathtaking natural beauty, but also to historic buildings and other structures built by the Civilian...

Recovering Five Generations Hence

The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

by Bruce A. Glasrud, Alisha Knight, M. Giulia Fabi
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that...

Contested Empire

Rethinking the Texas Revolution

by Eric Schlereth, Sam W. Haynes, Miguel Soto
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

To a large degree, the story of Texas’ secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars of the state. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionary period, most notably Eugene Barker and William Binkley, characterized the conflict as a clash of two opposing cultures, yet their exclusive...
by Arnoldo De León
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De León shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or, worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the center of it. The collection of essays in Tejano West Texas—many...

River of Contrasts

The Texas Colorado

by Margie Crisp
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas’ Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus’s ancient dictum, the river’s character...
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