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Andrew Johnson
A Bibliography
Inbunden, 1992
950 kr
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Andrew Johnson remains a paradox to those who study the controversial era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The effort to understand Johnson has produced a tremendous outpouring of works that provide fascinating perspectives on one of our most contradictory chief executives. Many scholars …
Tainted Breeze
The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Book Prize and a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five North Texas counties and brought …
Lee in the Shadow of Washington
Häftad, 2004
351 kr
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Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize and the Virginia Historical Society's Richard L. Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia BiographyWhile most historians agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard …
Galveston's Maceo Family Empire: Bootlegging and the Balinese Room
Av Richard B. McCaslin, Scott Belshaw
Inbunden, 2014
364 kr
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Portraits of Conflict
A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War
Inbunden, 2007
869 kr
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It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It's quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically …
Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright
Inbunden, 2021
422 kr
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William L. Wright (1868–1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it did not suit him. Instead, he became a deputy sheriff and then a Ranger in 1899, battling a mob in the Laredo Smallpox Riot, policing both sides in …
Washington on the Brazos
Cradle of the Texas Republic
Häftad, 2016
171 kr
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With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconicTexas town.The story of the Texas Republic begins and ends at Washington,but the town’s history extends much further. Texas leadersgathered in the new town on the west …
Texan in Blue
Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan of the First Texas Cavalry, USA
Av Richard B. McCaslin, J. Wayne Stewart
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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Francis Asbury Vaughan left his home in Guadalupe County, Texas on July 4, 1862, to fight in the Civil War. But he did not join a Confederate unit. Unlike twenty-one of his brothers and cousins, and most white male Texans who fought in that conflict, he became a captain in the First Texas Cavalry, …
Black Gold in Texas
Oil and Gas History in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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Oil redefined Texas in the twentieth century. During the nineteenth century, Texans had won their independence from Mexico, joined fellow Southerners in losing the Civil War, and made a great economic recovery with cattle and cotton. All of that provided more than enough history to give Texas a …
Making the Unknown Known
Women in Early Texas Art, 1860s-1960s
Av Sarah Beth Wilson, Michael R. Grauer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
754 kr
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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 …
Texas Cotton and Confederate Finance, Volume 3
Blockade Runners, Border Merchants, and Government Agents
Av L. Tuffly Ellis, Richard B. McCaslin
Inbunden, 2026
409 kr
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Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, the commander of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, wrote in January 1864 about the Cotton Bureau, "In my judgement it is destined to be one of the most powerful agencies upon which we must rely in the inevitable struggle for supremacy in this Department." …
Fighting Stock
John S. ""Rip"" Ford of Texas
Inbunden, 2011
363 kr
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McCaslin’s in-depth historical detail paints a full picture of this famous Texan, a fighter not only on the battlefield, but on the civic and political fields as well.
At the Heart of Texas
One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997
Inbunden, 2007
467 kr
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History like that of Texas is rare...Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of material for the history of the State to the great endowed Northern libraries?...Let Texas arouse herself for very shame, and begin at once the discharge of her filial duty. …
Photographic History of South Carolina in the Civil War
A Photographic History of South Carolina in the Civil War
Av Richard B. McCaslin, Carl H. Moneyhon m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
869 kr
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With over 240 photographs, maps, and related documents, McCaslin details the physical and spiritual suffering of the ordinary recruit in his fight for his country, its land, and his family's way of life.
Photographic History of North Carolina in the Civil War
Av Richard B. McCaslin, Carl H. Moneyhon m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
869 kr
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This Corner of Canaan
Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell
Av Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
294 kr
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Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell’s collective …
Sutherland Springs, Texas
Saratoga on the Cibolo
Inbunden, 2017
294 kr
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In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate …
Last Stronghold
The Campaign for Fort Fisher
Häftad, 2003
194 kr
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The huge earthen mounds silhouetted in the darkness of Southern nights near Wilmington, North Carolina, were signs of safety for Rebel ship captains and symbols of defiance to their Federal counterparts. These earthworks, the gun emplacements of Fort Fisher, embodied the hopes of the South and …
