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A list of key readings about Texas (U.S. state).

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## Contents

* 1 Bibliography
* 2 Surveys
* 2.1 Localities and regions
* 2.2 Ethnicity and race
* 2.3 Pre–1865
* 2.4 1865–1920
* 2.5 1920–2006
* 2.6 Primary source collections

## Bibliography[edit]

* The Handbook of Texas Online \- Published by the Texas State Historical Association thousands of scholarly articles on every aspect of Texas history
* 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.