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Twenty-One Texas Heroes

Author : Eileen Santangelo Hult
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460210123
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-One Texas Heroes written by Eileen Santangelo Hult and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-One Texas Heroes is a book of informational and historical poems about twenty-one Texas heroes in many fields of accomplishment. It spans the history of Texas from the beginning of the Texas Revolution to Statehood and to the 20th Century. It presents a grand tour of our brave founders, our historic U.S. Presidents, our celebrated athletes, our notable musicians, our illustrious war heroes, our philanthropists, and our political representatives. The poems introduce our heroes and the significant parts of their lives and contributions. Children and adults learn history in an enjoyable format that sings the praises and salutes the Texas heroes of the past and present. The reader is empowered by pride in the history of the Lone Star State....

Twenty-One Texas Heroes

Author : Eileen Santangelo Hult
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733538046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-One Texas Heroes written by Eileen Santangelo Hult and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Over the Map

Author : Michael Corcoran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Over the Map written by Michael Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themselves to be daring innovators who often call the tune for musicians around the country and even abroad. To introduce some of these trailblazing Texas musicians to a wider audience and pay tribute to their accomplishments, Michael Corcoran profiles thirty-two of them in All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music. Corcoran covers musicians who work in a wide range of musical genres, including blues, gospel, country, rap, indie rock, pop, Cajun, Tejano, conjunto, funk, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and Western swing. His focus is on underappreciated artists, pioneers who haven't fully received their due. He also includes well-known musicians who've been underrated, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Selena, and invites us to take a closer look at the unique talents of these artists. Corcoran's profiles come from articles he wrote for the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Press, and other publications, which have been expanded and updated for this volume. His musical detective work even uncovers a case of mistaken identity (Washington Phillips) and corrects much misinformation on Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes. Corcoran closes the book with lively pieces on the Austin music scene and its most famous, if no longer extant, clubs, as well as his personal lists of the forty greatest Texas songs of all time and the twenty-five essential CDs for Texas music fans.

The Texas Rangers in Transition

Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163658
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Rangers in Transition written by Charles H. Harris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.

Galveston

Author : Gary Cartwright
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875651903
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Galveston written by Gary Cartwright and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number eighteen: The TCU Press Chisholm Trail Series of significant books dealing with Texas, its life and history.

Inherit the Alamo

Author : Holly Beachley Brear
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292763239
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Alamo written by Holly Beachley Brear and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the multiple histories and mythologies of San Antonio’s famous Spanish mission and Texas Revolution battle site. The Alamo Mission still evokes tremendous feeling among many Americans, and especially among Texans. For Anglo Texans, it is the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” and a symbol of Western expansion. But Hispanic Texans increasingly view the Alamo as a stolen symbol, its origin as a Spanish mission forgotten, its famous defeat used to rob Hispanics of their place in Texas history. In this study, Holly Beachley Brear explores what the Alamo means to the numerous groups that lay claim to its heritage. Brear shows how—and why—Alamo myths often diverge from the historical facts. She decodes the agendas of various groups, including the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (who maintain the site), the Order of the Alamo, the Texas Cavaliers, and LULAC. She also probes attempts by individuals and groups to rewrite the Alamo myth to include more positive roles for themselves. With new perspectives on all the sacred icons of the Alamo and the Fiesta that celebrates (one version of) its history each year, Inherit the Alamo challenges stereotypes and offers a new understanding of the Alamo’s ongoing role in shaping Texas and American history and mythology.

J. Frank Dobie

Author : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782357
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book J. Frank Dobie written by Steven L. Davis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view—a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie's life (1888–1964), Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on "free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas's leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.

Our Pioneer Heroes and Their Daring Deeds

Author : D. M. Kelsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Pioneer Heroes and Their Daring Deeds written by D. M. Kelsey and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

Author : Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of Houston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195358678
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 by : Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of Houston

Download or read book Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 written by Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of Houston and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-11-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Elizabeth Turner addresses a central question in post-Reconstruction social history: why did middle-class women expand their activities from the private to the public sphere and begin, in the years just before World War I, an unprecedented activism? Using Galveston as a case study, Turner examines how a generally conservative, traditional environment could produce important women's organizations for Progressive reform. She concludes that the women of Galveston, though slow to respond to national movements, were stirred to action on behalf of their local community. Local organizations, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, and traditional everyday social activities provided a nurturing environment for budding reformers, and a foundation for activist organizations and programs such as poor relief and progressive reform. Ultimately, women became politicized even as they continued their roles as guardians of traditional domestic values. Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to scholars and students of the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, activist history, and religious history.

A History of Texas Baptists

Author : James Milton Carroll
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725284367
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A History of Texas Baptists written by James Milton Carroll and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alamo Story

Author : J. R. Edmondson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493057596
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Alamo Story written by J. R. Edmondson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, J. R. Edmondson's The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts thoroughly examines the famous "Shrine of Texas Liberty" from its origin as a Spanish New World mission to its modern status. It has been lauded as the “best" and "most readable” of all historical accounts devoted to the legendary mission-fortress. The original edition has been celebrated for over twenty years for its comprehensive approach to Alamo scholarship and for presenting the famous battle in the context of both American and Mexican history. This second edition of The Alamo Story includes new information about the battle and those involved, including expanded stories on the roles of minorities and some illustrations by noted artist Mark Lemon. The book also features a new chapter on Benjamin Rush Milam's assault on San Antonio with only three hundred Texians, the battle that set the stage for the siege of the Alamo less than three months later. And there is an extensive epilogue on the present-day conflicts about the physical Alamo compound, as historic preservationists clash with political and popular opinions in San Antonio.

A Texan's Choice

Author : Shelley Shepard Gray
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426714653
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A Texan's Choice written by Shelley Shepard Gray and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes heroes are disguised as gunslingers . . . and sometimes the most unlikely dreams really can come true.

Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540497
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Latinx motion pictures are built on the struggles—and victories—of prior decades. Earlier filmmakers threw open doors and cleared new paths for those of the twenty-first century to willfully reconstruct Latinx epics as well as the daily tragedies and triumphs of Latinx lives. Twenty-first-century Latinx film offers much to celebrate, but as noted pop culture critic Frederick Luis Aldama writes, there’s still room to be purposefully critical. In Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century contributors offer groundbreaking scholarship that does both, bringing together a comprehensive presentation of contemporary film and filmmakers from all corners of Latinx culture. The book’s seven sections cover production techniques and evolving genres, profile those behind and in front of the camera, and explore the distribution and consumption of contemporary Latinx films. Chapters delve into issues that are timely, relevant, and influential, including representation or the lack thereof, identity and stereotypes, hybridity, immigration and detention, historical recuperation, and historical amnesia. With its capacious range and depth of vision, this timeless volume of cutting-edge scholarship blazes new paths in understanding the full complexities of twenty-first century Latinx filmmaking. Contributors Contributors Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou Frederick Luis Aldama Juan J. Alonzo Lee Bebout Debra A. Castillo Nikolina Dobreva Paul Espinosa Mauricio Espinoza Camilla Fojas Rosa-Linda Fregoso Desirée J. Garcia Enrique García Clarissa Goldsmith Matthew David Goodwin Monica Hanna Sara Veronica Hinojos Carlos Gabriel Kelly Jennifer M. Lozano Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez J. V. Miranda Valentina Montero Román Danielle Alexis Orozco Henry Puente John D. “Rio” Riofrio Richard T. Rodríguez Ariana Ruiz Samuale Saldívar III Jorge Santos Rebecca A. Sheehan

This Band of Heroes

Author : James M. McCaffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Band of Heroes written by James M. McCaffrey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigadier General Hiram Bronson Granbury led a brigade of Texans, fighting in the Army of Tennessee, for only nine months. Others had preceded him, and others would follow--only to be snatched away by death, transfer, or promotion. But Granbury remained the most popular of the brigade's lengthy list of commanders--so much so that after Granbury's death and well after the end of the Civil War, men referred to themselves as members of Granbury's Brigade, one of Texas' most famous fighting units. James M. McCaffrey traces the history of the brigade, from the formation of the individual regiments by Texas' citizen-soldiers to the last days of the war, when heavy losses had reduced the brigade to a single regiment. The brigade's involvement in early confrontations, such as the Battle of Arkansas Post, are discussed. First published in 1985, This Band of Heroes is now once again available to readers drawn to Civil War history and researchers and historians interested in Texas' military heritage. McCaffrey supplements his text with maps, drawings, historical photographs, and appendixes that describe the flags and weapons of Granbury's Brigade. Of particular interest to genealogists researching the period is a comprehensive list of the men who served in the brigade.

Christian Advocate

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cattle Clatter; a History of Cattle from the Creation to the Texas Centennial in 1936

Author : Joe Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cattle Clatter; a History of Cattle from the Creation to the Texas Centennial in 1936 written by Joe Cross and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fly Boy Heroes

Author : James H. Hallas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811771326
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Fly Boy Heroes written by James H. Hallas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.