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Changing Perspectives
Black-Jewish Relations in Houston During the Civil Rights Era
Inbunden, 2022
352 kr
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Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston's history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of which struggled to claim the rights and privileges they desired. Previous scholars of Southern …
Fort Worth Stories
Inbunden, 2022
294 kr
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Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city's history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American 'Gooseneck Bill' McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth …
Two Counties in Crisis Volume 8
Measuring Political Change in Reconstruction Texas
Inbunden, 2023
409 kr
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Two Counties in Crisis offers a rare opportunity to observe how local political cultures are transformed by state and national events. Utilizing an interdisciplinary fusion of history and political science, Robert J. Dillard analyzes two disparate Texas counties—traditionalist Harrison County and …
Our Stories Volume 7
Black Families in Early Dallas
Av George Keaton, Judith Garrett Segura
Häftad, 2023
251 kr
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Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas enlarges upon two publications by the late Dr. Mamie McKnight’s organization, Black Dallas Remembered—First African American Families of Dallas (1987) and African American Families and Settlements of Dallas (1990). Our Stories is the history of Black …
Duval County Tejanos Volume 9
An Epic Narrative of Liberty and Democracy
Inbunden, 2024
352 kr
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In Texas, to hear the words “Duval County” evokes Archie and George Parr, politics, and corruption. But this does not represent the full truth about this South Texas county and its Tejano citizens. Duval County Tejanos showcases Tejanos engaged in community life: they organized politically, …
Fort Worth Characters 2 Volume 10
Inbunden, 2025
422 kr
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Fort Worth Characters 2 is a sequel to Fort Worth Characters (UNT Press, 2009) by Richard F. Selcer, the preeminent historian of Fort Worth. This book continues the theme of human-interest stories of twenty-five more characters pulled from Fort Worth history. Some, like Frank James, were already …
Fort Worth from World War II to 1960 Volume 11
Av Harold Rich
Inbunden, 2025
467 kr
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Fort Worth from World War II to 1960 reviews Fort Worth’s history during the challenging times of World War II, the postwar adjustment period, and the first full decade of the Cold War. Harold Rich tells the story in broad strokes with foci on local crime and criminals, vice, the police, race …
Progress Denied (Volume 12)
Quakertown, White Supremacy, and the Illusion of Democracy in Denton, Texas, 1850-1925
Inbunden, 2026
403 kr
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Sometimes, history isn't what it appears to be. For instance, in the early 1920s, a thriving Southern Black community was literally voted out of existence by local white citizens. The North Texas city of Denton, which was sometimes described as a "Ku Klux Box," was also home to the Quakertown …
No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell
The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871–1911
Inbunden, 2016
352 kr
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Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means …
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 …
No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell
The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911
Av James C. Kearney, Bill Stein m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
251 kr
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The Stafford-Townsend feud began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, Texas, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will …
Adolphe Gouhenant
French Revolutionary, Utopian Leader, and Texas Frontier Photographer
Av Paula Selzer, Emmanuel Pecontal
Inbunden, 2019
422 kr
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Adolphe Gouhenant tells the story of artist, revolutionary, and early North Texas resident Francois Ignace (Adolphe) Gouhenant (1804-1871). Born at the dawn of the Romantic era, Gouhenant traveled from a small village near the foothills of the Alps to France's second largest city, where he built a …
John B. Denton Volume 6
The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger
Av Mike Cochran
Inbunden, 2021
363 kr
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Denton County and the City of Denton are named for pioneer preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. He was an orphan in frontier Arkansas who became a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and an important member of a movement of early settlers bringing …
