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These daily events, recorded in the collections from before Texas’ birth as a Republic to the present, link Texas and Texans past with those of today. This rich history includes diaries, letters, photographs, and other materials on all things Texas. Collection strengths include early Texas, Baptist and missionary history, the Civil War, World ...
Dallas crime family; Founded: c. 1910; 115 years ago () Founder: Carlo Piranio: Founding location: Dallas, Texas, United States: Years active: c. 1910–1990s Territory: Primarily the Dallas metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
The book won the Texas Historical Commission's T. R. Fehrenbach Award for best book on Texas history in 2007. [4] [5] Phillips’ book chronicles white domination of Dallas during its first 150 years and how religion and definitions of whiteness influenced the status of marginalized groups such as the city's Jewish residents and the Tejano ...
He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 [2] with a degree in modern languages ("he never pursued graduate study or held a faculty post") [3] and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestseller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans [4] and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire is a 2010 book by Robert Perkinson, published by Metropolitan Books.. Perkinson, an American Studies professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa, [1] describes the criminal justice system in Texas and how it formed in the context of the post-United States Civil War environment. [2]