Documents of Texas History


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Originally published in 1963, this edition has been updated through 1993 and includes 141 documents on a broad range of social, cultural and political events which have shaped the history of Texas and often affected the nation.




The Handbook of Texas


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Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.




Texas Primary Sources


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The Texas Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Texas. The Texas Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: Analysis Critical Thinking Point of View Compare and Contrast Order of Events And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The Texas Primary Sources are: 1. Texas Declaration of Independence formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico during the Texas Revolution 1836 2. Painting depicting the Fall of the Alamo 1844 3. Portrait of General Antonio L"pez de Santa Anna 1847 4. Photograph of Susanna Dickinson, survivor of the Battle of the Alamo mid 1800s 5. Print of Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas 1852 6. Map of the Texas coast showing points of occupation of expedition under Union Major General N. P. Banks November 1863 7. Patent drawing for Joseph Gliddens improvement to barbed wire 1874 8. Photograph of Texas Rangers Company D, Realitos, Texas 1887 9. Photograph of first major oil gusher at Spindletop Hill, Texas January 10, 1901 10. Photograph of branding cattle, XIT Ranch, Texas 1904 11. Replica of the petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association for the passage of the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" - May 2, 1916 12. Photograph of soldiers at bayonet practice Camp Bowie, Fort Wayne, Texas 1918 13. Copy of Bessie Colemans aviation license 1921 14. Photograph of cattle brands, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum 1936 15. Photograph of Te




New Orleans and the Texas Revolution


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"Author Edward L. Miller has delved into previously unused or overlooked papers housed in New Orleans to reconstruct a chain of events that set the Crescent City, in many ways, at the center of the Texian fight for independence. Not only did Now Orleans business interests send money and men to Texas in exchange for promises of land, but they also provided newspaper coverage that set the scene for later American annexation of the young republic."--BOOK JACKET.




Passionate Nation


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Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review




Natural Resources Code


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The Texas Supreme Court


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“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women’s rights and the protection of debtors.” Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court. The first book-length history of the Court published since 1917, it tells the story of the Texas Supreme Court from its origins in the Republic of Texas to the political and philosophical upheavals of the mid-1980s. Using a lively narrative style rather than a legalistic approach, Haley describes the twists and turns of an evolving judiciary both empowered and constrained by its dual ties to Spanish civil law and English common law. He focuses on the personalities and judicial philosophies of those who served on the Supreme Court, as well as on the interplay between the Court’s rulings and the state’s unique history in such areas as slavery, women’s rights, land and water rights, the rise of the railroad and oil and gas industries, Prohibition, civil rights, and consumer protection. The book is illustrated with more than fifty historical photos, many from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It concludes with a detailed chronology of milestones in the Supreme Court’s history and a list, with appointment and election dates, of the more than 150 justices who have served on the Court since 1836.