Texas

As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatizes, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger throughout the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the …

Galveston Bay is the recreational center of the Texas coasta fishing, boating and birdwatching playground for the almost four million people who live on or near it. A shallow …

One of the largest higher education networks in the United States, the Texas A&M University System, with a budget of some $6.3 billion, educates more than 150,000 students annually …

Edwin "Bud" Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of …

Nineteenth-century editorial cartoons often pictured government and industry hand-in-hand. Yet as early as 1889 Texas had enacted an antitrust law to curb the power of monopolies. …

Language as Cultural Practice:Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in …

Once upon a time in Texas...there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant and more tolerable. David Richards was one of them. In this …

Beer Lover's Texas features state-wide breweries, brewpubs and beer bars for those looking to seek out and celebrate the best brews--from bitter seasonal IPAs to rich, dark …

From bestselling author Kelly Elliott comes the first book in her brand new Cowboys and Angels series.Moving back home to my parents' cattle ranch in Texas was the last thing I …

Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarshiparticles, book excerpts, and new, original essaysto offer for the first time an overview of the …