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Jenkins published his first book Recollections of Early Texas History the year he graduated from high school. He went on to become a well-known dealer in antiquarian books and documents, primarily of Texas history. Unlike many booksellers, he read much of what he bought and sold, resulting in his ten-volume Papers of the Texas Revolution. His ...
Jerry Don Thompson (born November 21, 1942) is Regents Piper Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. [1] He is a prolific author of books on a variety of related topics, specializing in the American Civil War, the history of the Southwestern United States, and Texas history. [2]
Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico, 1973, LCCN 72-91265. Republished in 1995, ISBN 0-306-80628-2, LCCN 94-45811; Comanches: The Destruction of a People, 1974, LCCN 73-20761. Republished in 2003 as Comanches: The History of a People, ISBN 1-4000-3049-8, LCCN 2003-267713; Seven Keys To Texas, 1983, ISBN 0-87404-069-8, LCCN 82-74272
The cover to the 1928 edition of Texas History Movies, which was given out to schoolchildren in Texas. Texas History Movies was a "popular racist comic strip that ran in The Dallas Morning News in the late 1920s". [1] [2] The strip had text by John Rosenfield, Jr., and pictures by Jack Patton. [3] Book collections of the strip were published ...
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]
In mid-October 2017, The History Press released Bills’ fifth book, Texas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg's Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales. [17] In August 2018, Bills published 100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die with the Reedy Press [ 18 ] and was the sole editor of Road Kill: Texas Horror by ...
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The Terrell Election Law was part of a wave of election reform legislation instituting a poll tax, secret ballot, and a closed primary system in Texas from 1902 to 1907, [1] during the Progressive Era of United States history.