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New Books in Texas History, 2019

Researching Texas History

To find books, search the library catalog for the following subject headings.
Brackets indicate examples and may be substituted with similar concepts.

[African-Americans]--Texas--History
Frontier and Pioneer Life--Texas
[Indians of North America]--Texas
[Legends]--Texas
[Mexicans]--Texas--History
Pioneers--Texas
Texas--Biography
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Texas--History--Local
Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846
Texas--History--Revolution, 1835-1836
Texas--History--[to 1846; 1810-1821; 1846-1950; 1865-1950; 1951-]
Texas--History--Sources
Texas--Politics and Government
Texas--Social Conditions
Texas--Social Life and Customs
Women--Texas--History

If you want to browse the stacks, try the following call number ranges
E - History: America
F - History: America; state histories
GR - Folklore -- Texas. Legends -- Texas.

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Selected Books about the Texas Revolution

Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835 by Alwyn Barr The battles of 1836--the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto--are well known moments in the Texas Revolution, but the battle for Bexar in the fall of 1835 is often overlooked. Yet this lengthy siege, which ended in a Texan victory in December 1835, set the stage for those famous events. Drawing on extensive research and on-site study around San Antonio, Barr completely maps the ebbs and flows of the Bexar campaign and sheds new light on the roles of the Texan and Mexican commanders.
Call Number: F390 .B339 1990
Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by H. W. Brands Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in history. Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking in the massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad, its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, and its day of liberation as a republic.
Call Number: F390 .B834 2005
The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution, 1836 by Carlos E. Cortes (Editor); Carlos E. Castenada (Translator)
Call Number: F390 .C317 1976
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis by William C. Davis The definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.
Call Number: F390 .D276 1999
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 by Stephen L. Hardin; Gary S. Zaboly (Illustrator) In this highly readable history, drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield, Hardin offers the first complete military history of the Revolution. From the war's opening at Gonzales to the capture of General Santa Anna at San Jacinto, he clearly describes the strategy and tactics of each side. This award-winning book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in Texas or military history.
Call Number: F390 .H29 1994 | F390.H29 1994 ebk ebooks on EBSCOhost
Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West by Jonathan W. Jordan Lone Star Navy chronicles the little fleet of wooden warships, bought on credit by an impoverished band of revolutionaries and sent to sea on a singular mission: to win Texas's independence from Mexico. The upstart flotilla became a vital counterpart to Texan armies fighting for an independent republic. Indeed, Capt. Jeremiah Brown's naval battle off Matamoros in April 1836 helped save the fledgling republic from a premature end.
Call Number: F390 .J67 2006
The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives by Timothy M. Matovina Matovina gathers all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo: first reports of the battle, Juan N. Seguín's funeral oration at the interment ceremony of the Alamo defenders, conversations with local Tejanos, unpublished petitions and depositions, and published accounts from newspapers and other sources. This communal response to the legendary battle deepens our understanding of the formation of Mexican American consciousness and identity.
Call Number: F390 .M485 1995
With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution by Jose E. De La Pena; Carmen Perry (Editor); Llerena Friend (Introduction by) When it was first translated and published in English in 1975 by Carmen Perry, this book unleashed a fury of emotion and an enduring chasm between some scholars and Texans. The journal of de la Peña, an officer on Santa Anna's staff, reported the capture and execution of Davy Crockett and several others and also stated the reason behind Santa Anna's order to make the final assault on Travis and his men. Whether or not scholars agree with de la Peña's assertions, his journal remains one of the most revealing accounts of the Texas Revolution ever to come to light.
Call Number: F390 .P34313 1997 | Also F390 .P3313
A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguin by Juan N. Seguin; Jesus F. de la Teja, Ed. Scion of one of San Antonio’s leading families, during the 1820s his family welcomed Stephen F. Austin, and like many prominent Tejanos, young Seguín came to see Anglo-Americans as a boon to the development of his beloved homeland. In October 1835, he volunteered for service in the Texas army and was in some of the most memorable events in the War of Independence, from the siege of Bexar to the battle of San Jacinto.
Call Number: F390 .S465 2002

Selected New Titles

The Secret War for Texas by Stuart Reid 2007 Summerfield G. Roberts Award, presented by The Sons of the Republic of Texas
Call Number: F390 .R39 2007
Matamoros and the Texas Revolution by Craig H. Roell Awarded First Place, Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio La Bahia Award
Call Number: F390 .R685 2013
Storm over the Bay: the People of Corpus Christi and their Port by Mary Jo O'Rear A finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Most Scholarly Book Award in May 2010.
Call Number: F394 .C78 O74 2009
San Antonio: A Tricentennial History by Char Miller This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation.
Call Number: F394 .S21157 M55 2018
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Martinez, Monica Munoz Awarded the Lawrence Levine Award, Organization of American Historians; the Best Non-Fiction Book Award, National Association for Chicano Chicana Studies Tejas FOCO; and was a finalist for the Fredrick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians.
Call Number: F395 .M5 M375 2018
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands by Nicholas Villanueva Jr. Winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award; Winner of the 2017 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
Call Number: F395 .M5 V56 2018
Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century by Cristina Salinas Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019
Call Number: HD1527 .T4 S35 2018
Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell Winner of the Liz Carpenter Award, the Lone Star Book Award, and the Robert A. Calvert book prize.
Call Number: HQ1438 .T4 B69 2018

Austin History

Alphonse in Austin: Being Excerpts from the Official Letters Written to the French Foreign Ministry ; with Diverse Notes Concerning the Pig War by Dubois de Saligny, A.
Call Number: F390 .D82 1972
History of Travis County and Austin : 1839-1899 by Barkley, Mary Starr.
Call Number: F392.T7 B3 1963
City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin,Texas by Andrew M. Busch In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.
Call Number: F394 .A957 B87 2017
Austin in the Jazz Age by Richard Zelade Though renowned, Austin's contemporary music scene pales in comparison with the explosion of creative talent the city spawned during the Jazz Age. Dozens of musicians who started out in the capital city attained national and international fame--but music was just one form of artistic expression that marked that time of upheaval.
Call Number: F394.A95 Z45 2015
Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Jason J. McDonald This pioneering study sheds new light on racial dynamics in the urban Southwest at a critical juncture in the history of the region and the nation. It focuses upon the experiences of ethnoracial minorities, particularly African Americans and Mexican immigrants in Austin, Texas from the dawn of the Progressive Era to the onset of the Great Depression. Through this lens, McDonald explores the issues of migration, proletarianization, marginalization, adaptation, identity, and community."
Call Number: F394.A99 N464 2012 | F394.A99 N464 2012 EBK
And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865-1928 by Michelle M. Mears After the Civil War ended in 1865, many freed slaves in central Texas began new lives in or near the capital city. At least fifteen freedmen communities formed in Austin proper and nearby rural settlements, but most, for various reasons, had disappeared by 1928, when the city implemented a master plan that encouraged blacks to move into a single, racially-segregated section of town.
Call Number: F394.A99 N465 2009
Austin by David C. Humphrey
Call Number: F394.A957 H86 1985
Austin, Cleared for Takeoff by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. This popularly written history tells the story of aviation in Austin from 1911 to the opening of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 1999.
Call Number: TL522.T4 R34 2004 EBK

Texas Cultural & Ethnic Histories

The Texas Indians by David La Vere David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from 12,000 years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining their interactions--both peaceful and violent--with Europeans, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans.
Call Number: E78.T4 L32 2004
Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995 by Alwyn Barr African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years—longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement.
Call Number: E185.93.T4 B37 1996 | E185.93.T4 B37 1996 ebk eBooks on EBSCOhost
The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans by Barry A. Crouch "Crouch skillfully presents the Freedmen's Bureau as one of the most unique, misunderstood, and maligned ad hoc reform agencies ever devised by a democratic government in the name of social and political freedom and equality."--East Texas Historical Journal." Crouch's study is among the first on the bureau in Texas and the first to focus on the subdistrict agent, the subassistant commissioner."--Journal of Southern History Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials.
Call Number: E185.93.T4 C76 1992
Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 by Andres Tijerina Historians have recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands after 1836. Few studies have documented the reverse flow in the interchange while both groups co-existed under the Mexican flag. Focusing on Texas between 1821 and 1836, Andrés Tijerina's work is a foundation for study of the early Mexican-American culture in Texas and its influence on Texans of all ethnic backgrounds.
Call Number: F389 .T53 1994
Black Cowboys of Texas by Sara R. Massey The life of a cowboy was hardly glamorous. Poorly fed, underpaid, overworked, deprived of sleep, and prone to boredom and loneliness, cowboys choked in the dust, were cold at night, and suffered broken bones in falls and spills from horses. African American cowboys, however, also had to survive discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice.
Call Number: F391 .B58 2000
The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas by Nick Kotz Both historical study and ancestral narrative, Kotz's work received recognition by the Texas Jewish Historical Society for eloquently depicting the reality of life for Jewish immigrants in Texas during the turn of the 20th century. Kotz tells the story of seventeen-year-old Ukrainian Nathan Kallison and his brothers who were among over two million Jews emigrating from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Kallison, a harness maker, moved to San Antonio, Texas where he founded one of the largest farm and ranch supply businesses in south Texas and eventually ran one of the region's most innovative ranches. Nathan and his beloved wife Anna managed to maintain their cultural heritage by raising their children in the Jewish faith, teaching them that family values and a strong sense of character are more important than any worldly achievement. Kotz's insight into the inspiring life of his grandfather will prompt readers to consider their own connections to America's immigrant past and recognize the beauty of our nation's diverse history.
Call Number: F394.S2119 J5 2013 ebk eBooks on EBSCOhost
Invisible Texans: Women and Minorities in Texas History by Donald Willett; Stephen J. Curley This anthology about women and minorities in Texas collects eighteen essays by highly respected scholars, examining the latest multicultural interpretations of the Lone Star state and placing them in a historical perspective. The distinctive and diverse nature of Texas history comes alive through the book’s focus on topics that have been under-represented in Texas history literature.
Call Number: F395.A1 I57 2005
Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives by Tang, Irwin A.
Call Number: F395.A75 A83 2008
The Asian Texans by Marilyn Dell Brady; University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio Staff (Contribution by) Marilyn Brady introduces readers to the languages, religions, and cultures of those who immigrated to the Lone Star State from Asia. Organized by region, she discusses the lives and contributions of Chinese, Japanese, East Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Laotian, and Cambodian Texans.
Call Number: F395.A75 B73 2004
Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s by Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann, Eds. Perilous Voyages combines the original text of Kingsbury's 1877 pamphlet: A description of south-western and middle Texas (United States), a private diary kept by an Englishman named William Wright, and oral histories by descendants of a group of thirty-six men, women, and children who left their rural Moravian homeland in 1873 to pursue dreams of prosperity in Texas. The realities faced by the early settlers stand in sharp relief to Kingsbury's sometimes extravagant claims. The stories share hopes and perils, hardships and enthusiasms. Kingsbury's pamphlet gives insight into the sparsely settled region and the dreams that led not only to the cultivation of the land but eventually to the cities that now rise from once-barren plains of Texas.
Call Number: F395.B67 P47 2004
The English Texans by Thomas W. Cutrer This is a cursory study of a neglected topic of Texan history, prepared for the The Texians and the Texans series, but it appears to be the only book in print that focuses solely on the contributions of English and Welsh immigrants to Texas.
Call Number: F395.E5 C87 1985
The European Texans by Allan O. Kownslar Highlights the contributions of immigrants to the Lone Star State from all over Europe. With numerous photographs and first-hand accounts, the author introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Wend, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, and Slavic Texans.
Call Number: F395.E95 K68 2004
The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture by François Lagarde (Editor) The flag of France is one of the six flags that have flown over Texas, and the French have made lasting contributions to Texas history and culture that deserve to be widely known and appreciated. This book ranks as the best overall study of the French experience in Texas ever assembled. It will be useful to both specialists and general readers curious about the many French accomplishments and failures in Texas. Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005.
Call Number: F395.F8 F74 2003
German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-century Texas by Terry G. Jordan Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled.
Call Number: F395.G3 J6 1994
The German Texans by Glen E. Lich German-Texan culture began in 1831 when Frederick Ernst acquired land in Austin County. A few years later, his neighbors included other German families, but the largest immigration of Germans occurred in the 1840s when the Adelsverein (The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas) assisted thousands in coming to Central Texas and establishing such settlements as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Call Number: F395.G3 L53 1996
The Hungarian Texans by Patrick McGuire
Call Number: F395.H95 M37 1993
The Irish Texans, 2nd rev. ed. by John B. Flannery
Call Number: F395.I6 F55 1995
The Italian Experience in Texas by Valentine J. Belfiglio
Call Number: F395.I8 B45 1995
Lone Stars of David by Kenneth D. Roseman (Editor); Robert S. Strauss (Contribution by); Hollace Ava Weiner (Editor) Winner of the Doelece Parmelee Award for achievement in preservation through historical research and writing from the Texas Historical Foundation. Jewish life in the United States is too often told from an East Coast perspective. Lone Stars of David presents a different panorama, with narratives of Jews who ventured to Texas before the battle of the Alamo, who fought for the Confederacy, who herded cattle up the Chisholm Trail, who drilled for oil, and more.
Call Number: F395.J5 L66 2007
Pioneer Jewish Texans: Their Impact on Texas and American History for Four Hundred Years, 1590-1990 by Ornish, Natalie.
Call Number: F395.J5 O76 1989
The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas by Stone, Bryan Edward. "Bryan Stone is a gifted thinker and storyteller. His book on the history of Texas Jewry integrates the collective scholarship and memoirs of generations of writers into a cohesive account with a strong interpretive message." --Hollace Ava Weiner, editor of Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas
Call Number: F395.J5 S76 2010
The Mexican Texans by Phyllis McKenzie; University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: F395.M5 M38 2004
Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays by Zamora, Emilio, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha This book, "a compilation of papers that were originally presented at the 1991 'Mexican Americans in Texas History,' conference covers a wide variety of topics on the lives of Mexican Americans throughout the history of Texas." --Amazon.com
Call Number: F395.M5 M485 2000
The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas by T. Lindsay Baker This award-winning history was the first to provide a detailed and well-documented account of the first organized Polish immigrant communities in America, the settlements founded in Texas in the mid-1850s. As residents of Upper Silesia, the ethnic Poles bound for Texas had long retained their own language and adhered to their Catholic faith. Arriving on the coast at Indianola, Silesian immigrants moved inland and established the first settlement in present-day Karnes County, naming it Panna Maria. The Silesian settlements of Texas had a far-reaching impact. For example, Peter Kiobassa left Texas after the Civil War and settled in Chicago, where he helped establish that city's first Polish Catholic community and then entered politics, becoming the first Polish-born state legislator in America.
Call Number: F395.P7 B33 1996 | F395.P7 B33 1996 ebk eBooks on EBSCOhost
Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas by Charles H. Russell Elise Waerenskjold, a forward-looking journalist, sent letters and articles back to Norway that encouraged others to follow her footsteps to Texas, where a small colony of Norwegian settlers were making a new life alongside--but distinct from--other European immigrants. Undaunted is the first full biography of Waerenskjold during her Texas years, a life story that shows much about Texas, especially in the Norwegian colonies, from 1847 until near the end of the century. Charles Russell's account of Waerenskjold offers a clear and entertaining window onto immigrant life in Texas and the issues that shaped women's lives and elicited their talents in an earlier century.
Call Number: F395.S2 R87 2006
The Danish Texans by John L. Davis
Call Number: F395.S19 D38 1983
The Swedish Texans by Larry Scott
Call Number: F395.S23 S44 1990
The Wendish Texans by Sylvia A. Grider
Call Number: F395.S68 G74 1982