Mitchel P. Roth. Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016. 448 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-652-7.
Reviewed by Zachary Montz (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Texas (August, 2019) Commissioned by Linda Powell (Amarillo College and Wayland Baptist University)
Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo. Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 277 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9679-4.
Reviewed by Tracey Hanshew (Washington State University Tri-Cities) Published on H-Texas (July, 2019) Commissioned by Linda Powell (Amarillo College and Wayland Baptist University)
Monica Munoz Martinez. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 400 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97643-6.
Reviewed by Timothy Bowman (West Texas A&M) Published on H-Texas (June, 2019) Commissioned by Linda Powell (Amarillo College and Wayland Baptist University)
Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds. Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-651-0.
Reviewed by Rebekah Crowe (Wayland Baptist University) Published on H-Texas (December, 2018) Commissioned by Linda Powell (Amarillo College and Wayland Baptist University)
Harriett Denise Joseph. From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2018. Illustrations. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-715-9.
Reviewed by Ian A. Lee (University of Texas at El Paso) Published on H-Texas (November, 2018) Commissioned by Linda Powell (Amarillo College and Wayland Baptist University)
Char Miller, ed. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 304 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4163-7.
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Johnson (Department of History, Southern Methodist University) Published on H-Texas (September, 2004)
The Alamo City from the Ground Up
FranÖ§ois Lagarde, ed. The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii + 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-292-74734-0; ISBN 978-0-292-70528-9.
Reviewed by H. Sophie Burton (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Texas (September, 2004)
Common Ground: French Contributions to Texas
Amilcar Shabazz. Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 301 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2833-5; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5505-8.
Reviewed by Charles H. Martin (Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso) Published on H-Texas (July, 2004)
Don Erler. Lone Star State of Mind: A Former Political Theorist Explores Real World Issues. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002. xiv + 181 pp. $69.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0449-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7391-0450-7.
Reviewed by Laura L. McLemore (Austin College) Published on H-Texas (June, 2004)
The News From Texas
Benjamin Heber Johnson. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 272 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-09425-1.
Reviewed by Victoria Hennessey Cummins (Department of History, Austin College) Published on H-Texas (June, 2004)
Randolph B. Campbell. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii+ 500 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-513842-9; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-513843-6.
Reviewed by Mary L. Kelley (Lamar University) Published on H-Texas (January, 2004)
Nancy Baker Jones, Ruthe Winegarten. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. x + 328 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-292-74062-x; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-292-74063-1.
Reviewed by Linda Hudson (Department of History, East Texas Baptist University, Marshall) Published on H-Texas (September, 2002)
Empowered Texas Women
Richard Bruce Winders. Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002. xxx + 172 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8420-2801-1; $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2800-4.
Reviewed by James E. Crisp (Department of History, North Carolina State University) Published on H-Texas (July, 2002)
Gregg Cantrell. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xiv + 493 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-07683-7.
Reviewed by Ricky Floyd Dobbs (Department of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce) Published on H-Texas (December, 1999)
Lee Winniford. Following Old Fencelines: Tales From Rural Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. viii + 280 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-802-4.
Reviewed by Lois E. Myers (Baylor University) Published on H-Texas (August, 1998)
Folklore from the Family Circle
