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  • Making the Unknown Known

    Women in Early Texas Art, 1860s–1960s

    by Sarah Beth Wilson, Michael R. Grauer, Kenneth Hafertepe, Francine Carraro, Mark Kever, Sam DeShong Ratcliffe, Randy Tibbits, Scott Grant Barker, D. Jack Davis, Amy Fulkerson, Eleanor Barton, Richard B. McCaslin ...
    In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from the nineteenth century through the latter part of the twentieth century. The biographies presented here allow readers to compare these women’s experiences across time as they negotiated the gendered expectations about artists in society at large and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Louisiana

    A History

    by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz ...
    Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Texas Women and Ranching

    On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities

    by John T. Becker, Light Townsend Cummins, Alex Hunt, Jean Stuntz, Renee M. Laegreid, Amy M. Porter, Brooke Wilbracht ...
    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas

    by Light Townsend Cummins ...
    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    Winner, 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for the Research in the History of Women, presented at the Texas State Historical Association Annual MeetingAt Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. Tejas Warrior has welcomed thousands of visitors since the Texas Centennial Exposition opened in the 1930s. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Discovering Texas History

    Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, Cary D. Wintz ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Conceived as a follow-up to the award-winning A Guide to the History of Texas (1988), Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in the study of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Texan Identities

    Moving beyond Myth, Memory, and Fallacy in Texas History

    Edited by Light Townsend Cummins, Mary L. Scheer ...
    Texan Identities rests on the assumption that Texas has distinctive identities that define “what it means to be Texan,” and that these identities flow from myth and memory. Each contributor to this volume provides in some fashion an answer to the following questions: What does it mean to be Texan? What constitutes a Texas identity and how may such change over time? What myths, memories, and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • To the Vast and Beautiful Land

    Anglo Migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s–1820s

    by Light Townsend Cummins ...
    Series Book 47 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
    To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume. A new bibliography ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Famous and Forgotten Faces

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    Series Book 2 - Canadian Heroines
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  • Franklin Pierce

    The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

    by Michael F. Holt ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.Michael F. Holt, a leading ... Read more

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  • The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made

    A Family Memoir

    by Flora Miller Biddle ...
    Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”-Library JournalUntil Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio-which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later-on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan in 1914, there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for ... Read more

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  • My Face Is Black Is True

    Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized ... Read more

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