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From Can See to Can’t
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can …
Nameless Towns
Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical CommissionSawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest …
Harder than Hardscrabble
Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005Until the U.S. Army claimed …
Freedom Colonies
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006 Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African …
Oral History
More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups …