Texas (U.S. State)#Bibliography

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Alvin R. Bailey Jr. and Light Townsend Cummins, eds. A Guide to the History of Texas. Greenwood Press. 1988.

Surveys[edit]

Calvert, Robert A., Arnoldo De Leon, and Gregg Cantrell. The History of Texas (2002)
Campbell, Randolph B. Gone to Texas: a History of the Lone Star State (Oxford University Press, 2003, 500 pages.], standard scholarly survey excerpt and text search; complete online edition
Fehrenbach, T. R. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (2007), popular survey excerpt and text search
McDonald, Archie P. Texas: A Compact History (2007) excerpt and text search
Wooster, Ralph A. and Robert A. Calvert, eds. Texas Vistas (1987) reprinted scholarly essays

Localities and regions[edit]

Hill, Patricia Evridge. Dallas: The Making of a Modern City (1996).
Horgan, Paul. Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History, reprint, 1977, ISBN 0-03-029305-7
Jordan, Terry G. Texas, a Geography (1984) online edition
McComb, David G. Houston, a History U of Texas Press, 1981.
Meinig, D. W. Imperial Texas: An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography, (1969), 145 pages.
Melosi, Martin V., and Joseph A. Pratt, eds. Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. (2007), 350ppISBN 978-0-8229-5963-2. online review

Ethnicity and race[edit]

Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995 (1996) excerpt and text search
De Leon, Arnoldo. Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History 2nd ed. Harlan Davidson, 1999.
Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 University of Texas Press, 1987.

Pre–1865[edit]

Baum, Dale. The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Bell, Walter F. "Civil War Texas: A Review of the Historical Literature" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2005 109(2): 204-232. Issn: 0038-478x
Binkley, William C. "The Activities of the Texan Revolutionary Army after San Jacinto," The Journal of Southern History> Vol. 6, No. 3 (Aug., 1940), pp. 331-346 in JSTOR
Buenger, Walter L. Secession and the Union in Texas. University of Texas Press, 1984.
Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 Louisiana State University Press, 1989. excerpt and text search
Campbell, Randolph B. Sam Houston and the American Southwest HarperCollins, 1993.
Campbell, Randolph B., and Richard G. Lowe. Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas Texas A&M University Press, 1977.
Cantrell, Gregg. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. Yale University Press, 1999. excerpt and text search
Carroll, Mark M. Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823–1860 University of Texas Press, 2001.
Chipman, Donald E. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 University of Texas Press, 1992.
Chipman, Donald E., and Harriett Denise Joseph. Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas. University of Texas Press, 1999.
De Leon, Arnoldo. The Tejano Community, 1836–1900 University of New Mexico Press, 1982.
Friend, Llerena B. Sam Houston: The Great Designer University of Texas Press, 1954.
Haley, James L. Sam Houston (2004) excerpt and text search
Hardin, Stephen L. Texan Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836 University of Texas Press, 1994.
Jordan, Terry G. German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth Century Texas University of Texas Press, 1966.
Jordan, Terry G. "The Imprint of the Upper and Lower South on Mid-Nineteenth-Century Texas," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Dec., 1967), pp. 667-690 in JSTOR
Kerby, Robert L. Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863–1865 Columbia University Press, 1972.
Lack, Paul D. The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835–1836 Texas A&M University Press, 1992. excerpt and text search
Lowe, Richard G., and Randolph B. Campbell. Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas Southern Methodist University Press, 1987.
Lowrie, Samuel H. Culture Conflict in Texas, 1821–1835 Columbia University Press, 1932.
Pace, Robert F., and Donald S. Frazier. Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 (2004) excerpt and text search
Poyo, Gerald E., ed. Tejano Journey, 1770–1850 University of Texas Press, 1996.
Rives, George Lockhart. The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848 (2 vol 1913) vol 1 to end of 1845
Siegel, Stanley. A Political History of the Texas Republic University of Texas Press, 1956.
Silverthorne, Elizabeth. Plantation Life in Texas Texas A&M University Press, 1986.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. Yale University Press, 1992. excerpt and text search

1865–1920[edit]

Barr, Alwyn. Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876–1906 University of Texas Press, 1971.
Buenger, Walter L. The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression University of Texas Press, 2001.
Campbell, Randolph B. Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865–1880 Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Clampitt, Brad R. "The Breakup: the Collapse of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army in Texas, 1865" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2005 108(4): 498-534. Issn: 0038-478x
Cotner, Robert C. James Stephen Hogg: A Biography . University of Texas Press, 1959.
Crouch, Barry A. The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. University of Texas Press, 1992.
Gould, Lewis N. Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era University of Texas Press, 1973.
Jordan, Terry G. Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893–1918. University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Martin, Roscoe C. The People's Party in Texas: A Study in Third Party Politics University of Texas Press, 1933.
Pitre, Merline. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: The Black Leadership of Texas, 1868–1900 Eakin Press, 1985.
Ramsdell, Charles William. Reconstruction in Texas Columbia University Press, 1910.
Rice, Lawrence D. The Negro in Texas, 1874–1900 Louisiana State University Press, 1971
Spratt, John Stricklin. The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901. Southern Methodist University Press, 1955.
Utley, Robert M. Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers Oxford University Press, 2002.

1920–2006[edit]

Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939. Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Brown, Norman D. Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921–1928 Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Robert A. Caro. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) (1990); Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) (1991)
Cox, Patrick. Ralph W. Yarborough, The People's Senator. University of Texas Press, 2001.
Dallek, Robert. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Davidson, Chandler. Race and Class in Texas Politics. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture University of California Press, 1997.
Green, George Norris. The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938–1957 Greenwood Press, 1979.
Knaggs, John R. Two-Party Texas: The John Tower Era, 1961–1984 Eakin Press, 1986.
Lee, James Ward, et al., eds. 1941: Texas Goes to War. University of North Texas Press, 1991.
Char Miller. Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas Trinity University Press 2004.
Olien, Diana Davids, and Roger M. Olien. Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945 University of Texas Press, 2002.
Patenaude, Lionel V. Texans, Politics, and the New Deal Garland Publishing, 1983.
Perryman, M. Ray. Survive and Conquer, Texas in the '80s: Power—Money—Tragedy … Hope! Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1990.
James Reston. The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally (1989)
San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. “Let All of Them Take Heed”: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910–1981 University of Texas Press, 1987.
Whisenhunt, Donald W. The Depression in Texas: The Hoover Years Garland Publishing, 1983.
The End of Cheap Oil National Geographic Society, 2004.

Primary source collections[edit]

Gallaway, B. P., ed. Texas, The Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War 3rd. Ed. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.