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A blueprint for sustainable growth in a vital, emerging urban corridor . . .
The Austin–San Antonio Megaregion
Opportunity and Challenge in the Lone Star State
Henry Cisneros, Robert Rivard, and David Hendricks
A cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured—population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, tra c counts, in-migration, school a endance, and airport enplanements—highlighting the dynamism of the two “anchor cities” of Central Texas: Austin and San Antonio. In e Austin–San Antonio Megaregion: Opportunity and Challenge in the Lone Star State, authors Henry Cisneros, Robert Rivard, and David Hendricks re ect on the implications of this growth in light of what will be required to sustain the economic a ractiveness and quality-of-life a ributes that sparked this moment of expansion.
In asking fundamental questions such as “Is this much growth actually good for the region?” and “If it is, are we prepared for it?” this book grapples with the realities of infrastructure. What emerges is a vision for this burgeoning urban corridor that, if implemented, can position the region to continue to thrive: a racting economic development and supporting a superior standard of living for its citizens for years to come.
In their preface, the authors state, “ e task before us is not easy, but it can be done. It is not a ma er of liberal or conservative politics, of red or blue ideologies; it is a ma er of realistic leadership and practical public consensus. e reality of the Austin–San Antonio megaregion is becoming more evident every day to those of us who live here. We try in this book to undergird those impressions with facts, data, and scenarios for the future.” e Austin–San Antonio Megaregion can serve as both a blueprint for future planning and a springboard for informed discussion about growth in this vital region.
The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark ’77 Philpy
HENRY CISNEROS, formerly the mayor of San Antonio, served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration, 1993–97. He is the coauthor of Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy. ROBERT RIVARD is the cofounder of e San Antonio Report, a free online news source. A journalist for more than 45 years, he formerly served as editor and vice president of the San Antonio Express-News. DAVID HENDRICKS recently retired a er 42 years at the San Antonio Express-News, where he was a business editor and columnist. He is a coauthor of Texas Triangle
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Austin to ATX e Hippies, Pickers, Slackers, and Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of Texas
Joe Nick Patoski
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e Texas Revolution, from a new perspective . . .
Santa Anna’s Army in the Texas Revolution, 1835
Gregg J. Dimmick
Translations by John R. Wheat
Illustrations by Manuel Hinojosa
e history of the Mexican Army’s activity in the Texas Revolution is well documented but o en hidden away. Many important primary sources have been lost or destroyed, but an impressive amount of period documentation has survived. And yet many of these handwri en Spanish documents have been shelved in the back rooms of museums and libraries long enough to have been forgo en. Various archives are sca ered in locations across Spain, Mexico, and the United States, with very few documents having been translated into English until now. Li le can be found in Texan sources that addresses the actions, motivations, and opinions of the Mexican participants in the Texas Revolution. What does exist in Texan accounts was either added in passing or, worse, grossly fabricated. In short, the Texan side of the story has been told, and o en at the expense of the perspective of Mexican participants. Author Gregg J. Dimmick makes available this new perspective, including a consideration of the many external forces a ecting the Mexican government and its military leaders. At the same time Texans were ghting for independence, Mexican o cials faced revolts across several states, ba led each other for political control, responded to Spain’s a empts to reacquire Mexico, and contended with numerous foreign powers, including the United States and Britain. In Santa Anna’s Army in the Texas Revolution, 1835, Dimmick sheds new light on the complex motivations of the Mexican Army facing the Texas Revolution.
The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark ’77 Philpy
GREGG J. DIMMICK is the author of Sea of Mud: e Retreat of the Mexican Army a er San Jacinto, An Archeological Investigation, 2007 winner of the San Antonio Conservation Society’s Publications Award, and editor of General Vicente Filisola’s Analysis of Jose Urrea’s Military Diary: A Forgo en 1838 Publication by an Eyewitness to the Texas Revolution. An independent scholar, he has given lectures across the state, appeared on the Discovery and History channels, and serves as chair of the archaeology commi ee of the San Jacinto Ba leground Association.
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6x9. 352 pp. 8 b&w photos, 3 drawings. 26 tables. 25 appendixes. Glossary. Bib. Index. Revolution/Republic. Military History, Texas. Mexican War. Texas Military History. December
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With Santa Anna in Texas
A Personal Narrative of the Revolution
José Enrique de la Peña
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How Did Davy Die? And Why Do We Care So Much?
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Dan Kilgore and James E. Crisp
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What is the true, historical meaning of the Spanish missions of San Antonio, Texas?
San Antonio and Its Missions
Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
Joel Daniel Kitchens
Characterizing San Antonio’s ve Spanish colonial–era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the missions a er the Spanish colonizers le , and how and why the missions came to weigh so heavily in American imagination and identity, even into the twenty- rst century.
While the Alamo gures prominently in these discussions, nonetheless all ve missions collectively are an enduring and deeply rooted part of the city’s cultural legacy, as recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2015. is careful study aims to tease out the means and process by which the missions of San Antonio came to represent much more than the original religious and educational functions that began three centuries ago at what was then a remote site on the Spanish colonial frontier.
Incorporating deep research into Spanish Colonial documents, census data, travel narratives, advertisements by railroad companies, tourist guides, and even the buildings themselves, San Antonio and Its Missions: ree Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage adds nuanced layers of understanding to the ways in which these buildings and the stories they embody continue to contribute to cultural and historical memory.
Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&M University–San Antonio
JOEL DANIEL KITCHENS retired in 2021 as associate professor and humanities reference librarian at Texas A&M University and is the author of Librarians, Historians, and New Opportunities for Discourse: A Guide for Clio’s Helpers. He lives in College Station, Texas.
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A Field Guide to the Vernacular Buildings of the San Antonio Area Edited by Brent Fortenberry
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We Dance for the Virgen Authenticity of Tradition in a San Antonio Matachines Troupe Robert R. Botello
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Hiking Texas while experiencing the state’s best cra breweries . . .
Texas Hikes and Brews
A Rambler’s Guide to a Perfect Day
Jay Maddock and Debra Kellstedt
Is there a be er way to spend a Texas a ernoon than outdoors on a trail and then si ing back to relax with a cold one? Authors Jay Maddock and Debra Kellstedt would say there isn’t. Texas Hikes and Brews: A Rambler’s Guide to a Perfect Day presents twenty-four di erent hiking itineraries throughout the Lone Star State, each coupled with an outstanding independent brewery.
While Texas abounds with hiking opportunities, Maddock and Kellstedt focus on exploring the less-traveled spots across the state, selecting routes primarily located in state parks and an occasional national park and local greenway. Divided into four geographic sections radiating outwards from their home base of College Station, readers will nd sites local to Central Texas and stretching all the way out to Big Bend. From short hikes of just over a mile to some of more than ten miles, there’s a hike for those of all skill levels, designed to reveal the beauty of Texas. e breweries represent the independent avor of Texas cra brewing, providing a full picture of the specialties, the physical space, and food o erings.
Each hike includes data points such as type of trail, completion time, miles, number of steps, and other vital information (restroom facilities, for example) for readers. Maddock and Kellstedt further expound on individual subjects such as landscape features, Texas history, facts about beer and brewing, and “pro tips” from the authors (state park annual passes are a must).
Whether you’re interested in discovering new sites for ge ing into the Lone Star State’s great outdoors or are a cra beer a cionado looking to support small business breweries—or maybe even both—Texas Hikes and Brews is for you.
The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark ’77 Philpy
JAY MADDOCK is a Regents Professor at Texas A&M University and directs the Center for Health & Nature. DEB KELLSTEDT is an assistant professor and extension specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
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Texas Dives
Enduring Neighborhood Bars of the Lone Star State
Anthony Head
Photography by Kirk Weddle
Foreword by Jesse Dayton
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Enjoying Big Bend
National Park
A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone
Gary Clark
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e women behind the conservation of Texas nature . . .
Wild Women for Good Stories of Conservation in Texas
Jennifer L. Bristol
Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are rarely told. Women played an invaluable role in the establishment of parks, protection of wildlife, developing policies that value nature, and defending communities against pollution and destruction of habitat. eir e orts enriched and reinforced the natural heritage of Texas. Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in Texas celebrates those who dared to step forward to make a di erence and to tell the complex story of conservation in the Lone Star state.
Wild Women for Good spans a century and a half of conservationists—rural and urban—contributing to policy that protected natural resources and bolsters our relationship with the resources. Opening with the rst Texas Audubon Clubs and early birdwatchers, author Jennifer L. Bristol details their banding together to prevent the extinction of many native bird species killed for their plumage. is joining of forces culminated in the passage of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, criminalizing the selling or hunting of migratory birds, their eggs, or their feathers. From there, Bristol explores the key roles women played in creating additional policies and parks to ensure the beauty and biodiversity of Texas for generations to come. Wild Women for Good concludes with an eye toward the future and an environmental movement that is more diverse and politicized than the original activists—then primarily wealthy white women—who started it over a century ago.
Bristol covers over forty individuals and groups: environmental policy makers, famous rst ladies, and those who were early champions of land trusts and conservation easements. ese are women whose stories are as integral to the state’s history as the natural landscapes they worked to preserve.
Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, sponsored by Nancy and Ted Paup, Texas Woman’s University
JENNIFER L. BRISTOL is the author of Cemetery Birding: An Unexpected Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas and Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas. She was previously director of Texas Children in Nature and a park ranger with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
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A multicultural blend of voices noting nature’s place in our literature and lives . . .
We Are Nature Defending Itself
An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place
Cordelia E. Barrera
In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives.” Not least of the many bene ts to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as advocates for the environment. ough this theme has long existed in Chicana literature, it has never been positioned as front and center as it is in this anthology.
Volume editor Cordelia E. Barrera also includes notable Anglo, African American, and Indigenous contributors, cra ing a true cultural blend of distinctive writing that will appeal to older generations while inspiring new ones. By incorporating these border voices, this collection e ectively challenges long-dominant mythologies of the American West and o ers a prominent place for literatures of social justice and the environment.
e mix of poems, stories, and essays are divided into three sections: Bodies, Landscape, and Practices. Part I begins with the idea of experiencing and feeling a history of the body’s contact with landscapes and places as repositories of knowledge. Part II extends beyond particulars of private or public life to consider issues of place as sites and locations of radical action. Part III features ruminations and traditions of remembering, highlighting reciprocal relationships to the natural world that extend outward to the ways “women’s work” in and around the home shapes communal processes that reinforce continuity across time and space.
We Are Nature Defending Itself adds important new work to the growing canon of nature and borderlands writing by women of color. In turn, these new voices deepen and broaden our understanding of humanity and its relationship to the natural environment.
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CORDELIA E. BARRE is a professor of English at Texas Tech University, where she specializes in Latinx and borderlands literatures. She is also the author of e Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature.
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Nepantla Familias An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds
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I Know About a Thousand Things e Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas
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Stories of love, family, joy, and resistance in the outdoors . . .
A Latine Outdoor Experience
Remembering, Resisting, and Reimagining Olivia Aguilar
A myriad of social media pages as well as professional and scholarly conferences targeting diverse stakeholders and in uencers in environmental and outdoor recreation elds has blossomed over the past decade, illustrating an “awakening” of sorts in the environmental arena. At the same time, there is an underlying critique that mainstream environmental organizations—and the eld at large—remain exclusive to a certain demographic in both messaging and representation. is disconnect is indicative of the situation that many people of color in the environmental eld have been talking about for quite a while, that is: “We’ve been here, but our stories are di erent.”
A Latine Outdoors Experience: Remembering, Resisting, and Reimagining provides a much-needed narrative at a time when the absence of such a narrative is both glaring and in demand.
Contributing to literature that has laid the groundwork for reexamining the relationships between communities of color and the environment, this book further illustrates how the outdoor and nature experiences of people of color in the United States, speci cally the Latine community, may be di erent than those predominantly represented in the environmental eld. Olivia Aguilar collects and shares cuentos (stories) from members of the national organization, Latino Outdoors, while weaving her own narrative throughout, to provide a rich description of what being a Latine outdoors means in their own words. From spending time with familia to enjoying public spaces and creating outdoor oriented communities on social media, the memories and stories collected here show a thread of resistance and resilience throughout. rough remembering, Aguilar and the contributors in her book reclaim their narrative and reimagine the outdoor experience from the Latine perspective, ultimately charting a course towards a more inclusive environmental eld.
OLIVIA AGUILAR is the Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment and an associate professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachuse s.
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Lilace Mellin Guignard
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“We Want Better Education!” e 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas
James B. Barrera
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Rebuilding his life a er the devastation of the Civil War, Wesley Clark Dodson designed “cathedrals of justice” for Texas . . .
The Architecture of Wesley Clark Dodson
Legacy of a Good Name
Mary Helen Dodson
Raised the son of a Methodist circuit-riding minister, Wesley Clark Dodson had just begun establishing himself as a civic-minded architect in Alabama when the outbreak of the Civil War dramatically altered his life. He fought with the 40th Alabama Infantry Regiment and emerged from the war disabled. In 1866, unable to nd work as an architect in his home state, he was determined to begin again in Texas.
Starting over would prove far from simple. Postwar Texas had a depressed economy, and the con icts of Reconstruction plagued the state. Dodson lost his beloved wife, Sarah, to illness during a severe winter. Nevertheless, he persevered, gradually building a career designing courthouses, jails, churches, and schools; institutions he saw as necessary to create a good, strong society in Texas. Eleven of Dodson’s public buildings are still in use today and nine of Dodson’s buildings in Texas, including the First Presbyterian Church in Palestine and the courthouses of Parker, Hill, and Lampasas Counties, are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
e Architecture of Wesley Clark Dodson reveals how Dodson transitioned from being a pre–Civil War master builder to a late nineteenth century professional architect with a membership in the prestigious American Institute of Architects; details the important role he played in elevating architecture to the status of a licensed profession; and provides insights into the process of building these public institutions and the di culties encountered. Drawing from extensive research in public records, personal le ers, collected papers, and memoirs dra ed by Dodson in his eighties, Mary Helen Dodson has assembled a portrait of an important and in uential architect during the “golden age of courthouse construction” in Texas.
MARY HELEN DODSON is retired from her career as a test developer for Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey, where she was awarded a US patent for online assessment technology. She lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
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e most signi cant ba le of the Civil War in Indian territory was fought by Black, Indian, and White combatants . . .
Honey Springs, Oklahoma
Historical Archaeology of a Civil War Battlefield
William B. Lees
e sectional con ict between North and South was di erent in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). ere, the Civil War was only a veneer over the competition among the United States, the Confederacy, and sovereign Indian Nations known as the Five Civilized Tribes whose citizens, in turn, had multiple motives that drove divided loyalties.
Historians have long recognized the Ba le of Honey Springs on July 17, 1863, for its unusual makeup of Black, Indian, and White combatants and as the most signi cant ba le of the Civil War in Indian Territory. Honey Springs, Oklahoma: Historical Archaeology of a Civil War Ba le eld is the rst book to focus solely on this event. It is unique in that its discourse and conclusions ow from the convergence of three lines of evidence: wri en history (memory), scienti c archaeological ndings, and military terrain analysis of the landscape. is triangulation of sources o ers a place for long overlooked perspectives and returns an otherwise missing voice to Native American and Black participants.
One of the synthesizing questions addressed by author William B. Lees is how to explain rebel loss. Given the participants’ cultural diversity, the question has many answers; victory and defeat are, a er all, in the eye of the beholder. Honey Springs, Oklahoma makes clear the location of skirmishing, the lopsided a ack of Union troops on the right of the Confederate line, and precise locations of ghting during the rebel retreat. is analysis is the fulcrum in the re-envisioning of the agency of Native American participants. is groundbreaking study will provide new insights for students and scholars of historical archaeology, and military historians and general readers with an interest in the Civil War and its archaeological record will also bene t from Lees’s research into this important but heretofore li le-studied engagement.
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WILLIAM B. LEES is the retired executive director of the Florida Public Archaeology Network. He previously directed the Historic Sites Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society and is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals.
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Archaeology. Civil War. Native American Studies. September
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The Archaeology of Engagement Con ict and Revolution in the United States
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Texas athlete, Texas soldier, Texas hero . . .
Beyond the Bataan Death March
The Life and Times of K. L. Berry
Dana Berry Frazee
K. L. (Kearie Lee) Berry was a star athlete at the University of Texas at Austin from 1912 to 1916, playing on the undefeated national championship football team of 1914. Upon graduation, he began his military career with postings along the Mexican border. Berry served as an o cer and advisor overseas, including an assignment in Siberia just a er the Bolshevik Revolution, where he was a member of the 27th Infantry “Wol ounds” of the American Expeditionary Force. Prior to and during World War II, he was stationed in China and the Philippines, where he was captured by the Japanese army on Bataan in 1942. He survived the infamous Bataan Death March and was incarcerated in various POW camps over a period of forty months until his liberation in August 1945.
Upon returning to his home state, Berry was promoted to brigadier general, serving one more year as an active-duty o cer before retiring in 1947. He didn’t stay retired for long; ve days later, Berry was appointed as Adjutant General of the Texas Military Department, a post he held for fourteen years. Upon his “second retirement” in 1961, he served as president of the University of Texas’s Forty Acres Club (now Forty Acres Society). He remained active with various alumni activities of the University of Texas until his death in 1965.
Dana Berry Frazee, granddaughter of Lieutenant General Berry, has prepared this biography with the aid of her grandfather’s POW journal and considerable outside research. What unfolds in the pages of Beyond the Bataan Death March: e Life and Times of K. L. Berry is a story of honor, courage, and dedicated service over a lifetime and o en under the most di cult of conditions.
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DANA BERRY F ZEE, a retired educational consultant and educational counselor, is the granddaughter of Lt. Gen. K. L. Berry.
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Biography. World War II. Military History, Texas. December
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Discovering a father’s wartime experience . . .
A German Texan in World War II
The Diary, Letters, and Memorabilia of an 88th Infantry Officer
Marilyn Melcher Maddox Foreword by John A. Adams Jr.
A memoir within a memoir, A German Texan in World War II: e Diary, Le ers, and Memorabilia of an 88th Infantry O cer tells the story of Robert Lee Melcher, wri en by his daughter, Marilyn Melcher Maddox. Melcher served as a major in the US Army from 1943 to 1945 in North Africa and Italy, leaving the war decorated with a Bronze Star Medal for his heroism. Highlighting the strong German Texan background and perspective of a loyal American o cer who fought against the army of his ancestral homeland, Melcher’s story comes to life through an abundance of personal le ers, diary, memorabilia, and memories from his daughter.
A proli c writer and careful record keeper, Melcher wrote eloquently about the human aspect of war, asking agonizing questions about his German Texan heritage. As his time in combat unfolded, Melcher came to see a di erent side of the German traditions and pride that had molded him as a youth. On May 3, 1945, he wrote, “I’m sure the pictures and stories of German prison camps are convincing as to the true nature of Germans. And convincing as to what the US would have been in for, had we not fought when we did. My idea of a German is lots di erent than what it was. Some of my friends were in those prison camps.”
Years a er his active military career was over, Maddox, daughter of then-Colonel Melcher, discovered the dusty cardboard boxes stu ed with le ers, scrapbooks, photographs, hand-drawn maps, and other reminders of her father’s time in World War II. Drawn into the story of her father’s past, she embarked on a journey of discovery that resulted in A German Texan in World War II. is book o ers important perspectives on the internal struggles faced by Americans of foreign heritage who serve in con icts that place them at odds with their own cultural legacies.
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
MARILYN MELCHER MADDOX is a former history and language arts educator who focuses on writing non ction. She lives in College Station, Texas.
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Bringing Davy Home
In the Shadow of War, a Soldier’s Daughter Remembers
Sherri Steward
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Liberating the largest Japanese internment camp in the Philippines . . .
Sixty-Six Hours to Manila
Survival and Liberation at Santo Tomas, 1942–1945
Edward G. Miller
At 85 years of age, re ecting on his experiences in the Paci c eater in World War II, former US Army cavalry soldier Warren E. Murtha said, “ e proudest moment of my life occurred when I went through the gate at Santo Tomas in Manila and I saw the faces of the prisoners—the men, women, and children—their smiles, their expressions of relief and gratitude. . . . Suddenly I knew why we were on this mission . . . I thought to myself . . . all of it had been worthwhile in return for this one moment.”
During World War II, the Japanese government held over 130,000 “enemy alien” civilians throughout the Paci c—including nearly 78,000 women and children. Most of the 7,800 civilians rounded up in the Philippines were American expatriates, and at any one time, about half of these were held at the campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. By late 1944, Washington, DC, was concerned that any ground gained as the US Army approached Manila in the early days of the new year would result in execution of the prisoners. Out of other options, a risky behind-the-lines a ack was launched with 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 100 miles standing between the captives and their liberators.
Until now, no book has e ectively blended the story of the internees with the military operation to free them. Discussing uncomfortable topics such as racism, collaboration with the enemy, and illicit personal relationships, Sixty-Six Hours to Manila: Survival and Liberation at Santo Tomas, 1942–1945 shines new light on what has largely been a neglected chapter in the story of World War II in the Paci c.
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
EDWARD G. MILLER is the author of A Dark and Bloody Ground: e Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944–1945 and Nothing Less an Full Victory: Americans at War in Europe, 1944–1945. A retired US Army logistics o cer, he is also a defense industry consultant and graduate of several military schools. He lives in Danville, Kentucky.
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Victory Fever on Guadalcanal
Japan’s First Land Defeat of World War II
William H. Bartsch
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December 8, 1941
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William H. Bartsch
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In the global future, safety and security in the physical space will require victory online . . .
Digital Dominance
Winning in a Socially Networked World
James Jay Carafano
“In the modern world,” author James Jay Carafano asserts, “winning online could be the key to being free, safe, and prosperous—or being consumed.” In his previous book, Wiki at War: Con ict in a Socially Networked World, Carafano explored how social networks operate; how digital networks could impact contemporary national security a airs; and how to dominate the “high ground” in cyberspace. In the ensuing decade, real-world actors have put this knowledge into practice.
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Wri en as a sequel, Digital Dominance: Winning in a Socially Networked World is divided into four parts. e rst explores the time from Wiki at War to now, updating the ideas and domination strategies through a modern lens as the digital world impacts the physical. e second and third parts break down both sides of the national security challenge: how to not only build an e ective, powerful, and impactful network of your own, but how to take apart the networks of adversaries. Carafano concludes with an eagle’s-eye view of the environment where this digital war is playing out, what public and private sector actors are participating, and the role of emerging new technologies.
Digital Dominance looks at both sides of the national security challenge: how to build networks and make them powerful and impactful, while also weakening the enemy’s. Given the growing impact of the “metaverse,” the questions raised in this book are only likely to become more crucial over time. Digital Dominance promises to guide and shape our understanding of how strategic success or failure online could increasingly predict outcomes in real time.
JAMES JAY CA FANO is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges and the author of Wiki at War: Con ict in a Socially Networked World, Waltzing into the Cold War, and numerous other titles. An E. W. Richardson Fellow of the Heritage Foundation, he also serves as vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
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James Jay Carafano
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Victory through Influence
Origins of Psychological Operations in the US Army
Jared M. Tracy Foreword by Dr. Troy J. Sacquety
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A collection of essays on the modern social and historical implications of aviation. . .
Flight Culture and the Human Experience
Edited by Scott W. Palmer
Adapted from the 55th Annual Walter Presco Webb Lecture Series held in 2021, Flight Culture and the Human Experience sheds new light on the myriad ways aviation has transformed ideas, cultures, and societies across time and around the globe. In bringing together seven established and emerging scholars to explore li le known chapters in the history of aviation, this collection transports readers back to “a time when ight was new, while opening analytical paths for interpreting the future.”
Following an introduction, selections include:
• e Utopian Machine: Lighter-than-Air Flight and Romantic Socialism in Nineteenth Century France
• e British Mechanic at War and Aircra Innovation
• Gender, Race, and Heroic Aviation in Interwar Argentina
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• Civil Air Transport and the Colonial Context in the Interwar Period
• Détroya aboy: Michel Détroyat and the 1936 National Air Race
• Chasing the Future: Why US Airports Seem Always Under Construction
• Selling the Fighter Pilot’s Dream Machines: e F-15 and F-16 in the Public Eye
Students, scholars, and other readers interested in modern aviation and its historical context will appreciate Flight Culture and the Human Experience
Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
SCO W. PALMER is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia and coeditor of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia’s Great War and Revolution.
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Air Force
Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures
1940–1990
Kenneth P. Werrell
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Richard Byers
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e biography of a pioneering African American educator in Texas . . .
Edward L. Blackshear at Prairie View
Texas Education Crusader
John A. Adams Jr.
Foreword by John Sharp
Many Texans will recognize schools and buildings across Texas bearing the name “Blackshear,” but few know the story of the man behind the name. Author John A. Adams Jr. seeks to rectify that in the rst full-length biography of Edward L. Blackshear, bringing to light previously unexplored aspects of the life and work of a man Adams characterizes as “a pivotal leader, educator, strategist, essayist, poet, agriculturist, and advocate in the struggle to advance opportunities for Blacks across Texas in spite of a rigid, post-war white power structure.”
Born to enslaved parents in 1862, Edward Lavoisier Blackshear seized every opportunity he had to learn, succeed, and raise others up with him as he became a leader and legislative activist for Black education in Texas. In a period deemed as the “New South” by historians, Blackshear distinguished himself as a foundational leader in Black education: teaching at historically Black schools and colleges in Dallas and Austin; serving as the supervisor of all African American schools in Austin; and appointed by Governor Charles Culberson as principal of what was then known as Prairie View Normal and Industrial College from 1896 to 1915. His tenure at Prairie View—now Prairie View A&M University—was characterized by leadership and wisdom during tumultuous times. He o en worked quietly with Texas’s power brokers to ensure that the university received the necessary support.
Adams’s research, focused on archival records and previously unpublished documents, reveals the lengths Blackshear went to help not just the students and faculty of Prairie View, but African Americans across Texas, succeed in a starkly segregated society. Students and scholars alike will be fascinated by this wealth of important material that expands our knowledge of this in uential, yet heretofore scantly chronicled educational and social pioneer.
Prairie View A&M University Series
JOHN A. ADAMS JR. is the author of numerous titles including Sul Ross at Texas A&M and William F. Buckley, Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908–1922.
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6x9. 360 pp. 8 b&w photos. 4 gures. 17 tables. Appendix. Bib. Index. African American Studies, Texas. Biography. Education History.
January
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The Texas Lowcountry Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895
John R. Lundberg
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African American State Volunteers in the New South Race, Masculinity, and the Militia in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, 1871–1906
John Patrick Blair
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“I didn’t come here to share my opinions because I think they’re smart . . . I came to share them because they rhyme.”
East Nashville Skyline
The Songwriting Legacy of Todd Snider
Brian T. Atkinson
Forewords by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Loretta Lynn, and Richard Lewis
In his introduction, author Brian T. Atkinson calls singersongwriter Todd Snider “a marvel and a mystery” who “creates at any cost.” Snider, originally hailing from the Portland, Oregon, area, arrived in Texas as a teen and was captured by the troubadour life while at a Jerry Je Walker show at venerable Gruene Hall in 1986. He honed his cra for the next three years at the feet of legendary muse and mentor Kent Finlay at Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos.
A er moving to Nashville—or, more properly, East Nashville— around the turn of the twenty- rst century, Snider has garnered a loyal following from regular fans to in uential industry leaders like MCA Records executive Tony Brown, iconic producer Don Was, respected artists like Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Jason Isbell, and Hollywood heroes such as the late comedian Richard Lewis and notorious scenester Pamela Des Barres (I’m with the Band). His songs have been recorded and performed by artists as diverse as Garth Brooks, Lore a Lynn, Elvis Costello, and Tom Jones.
Atkinson interviewed Snider, members of his family, and other artists and musicians, to construct a narrative that captures the loopy kineticism of Snider’s career trajectory. He carefully peels back Snider’s barefoot hippie public persona to reveal the soulful poet and writer who “believes everything and nothing at the same time, yet has faith in himself, even when no one else does.”
Atkinson’s latest book adds another layer to his already-impressive oeuvre on in uential singer-songwriters by shi ing focus onto younger musicians who were creatively formed by “ rst generation” artists like Townes Van Zandt and Mickey Newbury. East Nashville Skyline: e Songwriting Legacy of Todd Snider provides a pivotal chapter in this evolving story.
Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
BRIAN T. ATKINSON, an Austin-based music writer, producer, and record label owner, is the author of I’ll Be Here in the Morning: e Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt; Love at the Five and Dime: e Songwriting Legacy of Nanci Gri th; and other titles.
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Brian T. Atkinson
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Life behind the scenes at the historic Y.O. Ranch . . .
Eight Miles from the Front Gate
My Life on the Y.O. Ranch with Charles Schreiner III
Norma Schreiner
“It was the summer of 1977, and I was at the Texas Capitol researching voting pa erns for the political campaign I was working for,” writes author Norma Schreiner as she describes her meeting with rancher Charles Schreiner III. “I decided to drop by the o ce of one of my favorite house members, Jim Nugent. . . . Before his sta could announce me, he was bellowing, ‘Norma, come in here. ere’s someone I want you to meet.’”
So began the tempestuous, yet mostly good-natured relationship between the author and the man she o en called “Charlie ree,” scion of the historic Schreiner ranching family of the Texas Hill Country. eir subsequent marriage would last only two years, but that time would place her on the legendary Y.O. Ranch during the centennial of its founding in 1880. Since the 1950s, the ranch began to stock exotic animals for hunting and breeding purposes year-round, a practice that has since become vital to many Texas ranches’ economic survival. Schreiner would see Y.O. as one of the rst Texas ranches to add a pair of gira es that have decedents still on the ranch to this day.
Told with candor and good humor, Schreiner’s memoir of her time on the ranch and how those experiences have continued to shape her life to the present makes for entertaining and enlightening reading. A broad audience of general readers interested in Texas ranching culture and Texana will enjoy Eight Miles om the Front Gate: My Life on the Y.O. Ranch with Charles Schreiner III.
Nancy and Ted Paup Ranching Heritage Series
NORMA SCHREINER, a sixth-generation Texan, was the fourth wife of Charles Schreiner III. e rst woman elected to the board of directors of a livestock association (South Texas Longhorn Association), she is a former lobbyist, political consultant, adjunct political science professor, and corporate executive. She lives in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas.
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Cedar held in check and native grasses replenished to resurrect the springs . . .
A Resurrection of Springs
Krause Ranch and the Frio River Hill Country Thad Sitton, Cynthia H. Nesser, and Adrian F. Van Dellen
e Krause Ranch is not the usual Hill Country landscape one might expect—it has bo omless holes, dinosaur tracks, high limestone river cli s where golden eagles nest, and occasional visits by pumas and black bears. Historian ad Si on paints a detailed portrait of the 1,670-acre property, its human history, its natural history, and Gary Krause—the man who spent several decades clearing cedar to bring grass and good water back to the land. Krause “resurrected” the land’s natural springs using native grasses with deep roots that act as conduits, pulling water down into the ground. A Resurrection of Springs describes the land before se lement, the Auld family, who rst homesteaded the land, and Krause’s commitment to returning the land to its original state. It’s no wonder that the Texas Nature Conservancy is working with Krause so assiduously to preserve it. Coauthor Cynthia H. Nesser, a professional conservationist, provides a valuable set of resources for readers who may be inspired to practice conservation in their own backyards.
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Over 200 photographs by Adrian F. Van Dellen capture the Krause ranchland in sweeping vistas across all seasons, examining everything from the rivers and water features— such as Englishmen’s Well, rumored to be over 200 feet deep—to the minutiae of individual plants and animals. Special sections on Texas grasses, Texas cedar, water management in the riparian habitat, and wildlife provide factual grounding illustrated by speci c examples from Krause’s ranchlands.
THAD SI ON is a Texas historian and is author or coauthor of numerous books, including Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake. He lives in Austin, Texas. CYNTHIA H. NESSER is an entrepreneur and a conservation, sustainability, and environmental enthusiast. She splits her time between Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. ADRIAN F. VAN DELLEN is a wildlife and landscape photographer, black bear recovery activist, and nature enthusiast. He lives in Woodville, Texas.
Seasons at Selah e Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve
Andrew Sansom
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Rusty Yates and David K. Langford
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Caddo
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Narrated by Thad Sitton
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Connecting Mesoamerican creation myth to the modern psyche . . .
The Splendor of the Maya
A Journey into the Shadows at the Dawn of Creation
Nancy Swift Furlotti
Foreword by Michael Escamilla
“Explore the collective unconscious from a di erent angle and perspective than we have seen in the European, Slavic, Celtic, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cultures,” says series editor Michael Escamilla in the foreword to Nancy Swi Furlo i’s e Splendor of the Maya: A Journey into the Shadows at the Dawn of Creation. is examination and ampli cation of K’iche’ Maya creation mythology from Mesoamerica lls a gap in Jungian literature by illustrating the contributions to the collective psyche of an important indigenous American culture with which readers may not be familiar. Furlo i’s work o ers an interesting juxtaposition with the prevailing Western scienti c-rationalistic views that have typi ed psychological inquiry for the past twoand-a-half centuries.
Contrasting with the mostly linear orientation of Western scienti c and literary traditions, Maya mythology and culture are typi ed by a cyclical view of time, creation, and experience coupled with an understanding of humanity as in community with—rather than hierarchically superior to—the natural world. Turning to Popol Vuh, or “Dawn of Life,” the Maya creation myth that details the repeated creation and destruction of the world, Jungian analyst and scholar Furlo i seeks “to extract the psychological meaning of the myth that may be pertinent to both the collective understanding of myth as well as the individuals’ process of what Jung described as individuation.”
Noting how a culture’s myths move hand in hand with its development, Furlo i forges connections with ancient wisdom to reconnect with the foundational metaphors that guide all human experience. e Splendor of the Maya brings fresh perspectives to the collective, o en unconscious associations that link the human psyche across time and culture.
Number Twenty-three: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
NANCY SWIFT FURLO I, a Jungian analyst and author in Aspen, Colorado, is a founding member and past president of the Philemon Foundation and was actively involved in the publication of Jung’s Red Book. She also served on the board of the Kairos Film Foundation, which contributed to the preservation of the movies, Ma er of Heart, e World Within, and the Remembering Jung video series.
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Lost Maya Cities Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle Ivan Sprajc Translated by Petra Zaranšek, Dean Joseph DeVos
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Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy Hayao Kawai Foreword by David H. Rosen
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e story of a pioneering research center at Texas A&M University . . .
Advancing Excellence
The History of Texas A&M University’s Hagler Institute for Advanced Study
Tim Gregg
Forewords by Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Junkins
From its post–Civil War beginnings as a land-grant institution, Texas A&M has become a place where great minds are cultivated, nurtured, and given free rein. It is in that spirit that a center was established on campus to enhance excellence through the exchange of ideas and collaboration with the world’s nest scholars, researchers, and industry leaders. at goal, cultivated in large part by the university’s Vision 2020 aspirational plan launched in 1997, eventually took shape as the Texas A&M University Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.
Building on this enhanced base to continue the momentum toward Vision 2020’s rst imperative of “elevating the faculty and their teaching, research, and scholarship,” the Hagler Institute brings outstanding senior scholars to the Texas A&M campus on a temporary basis. e institute thus enhances research productivity among the faculty and enriches the educational experience for students. ese top visiting scholars contribute new research ideas, engage in collaborative research, provide mentoring for younger faculty, and contribute to the development of inspired graduate students.
Providing a catalyst for high-quality, innovative research across the multiple disciplines represented in the university, the Hagler Institute continues to enhance the intellectual climate of the university in multiple ways. By a ording faculty and students the perspectives of Nobel laureates and winners of various awards from national academies, the Hagler Institute continues to re ect the vision of its founding director, John Junkins, enhancing the academic reputation and innovative leadership of Texas A&M University.
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RELLIS Recollections 75 Years of Learning, Leadership, and Discovery
Tim Gregg Foreword by John Sharp
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TIM GREGG is the author of RELLIS Recollections: 75 Years of Learning, Leadership, and Discovery and Breaking Away: How the Texas A&M University System Changed the Game. An award-winning journalist and communications consultant, he lives in College Station.
Breaking Away How the Texas A&M University System Changed the Game
Tim Gregg Foreword by Henry Cisneros
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ree visionary women built lasting institutions in Houston, Texas . . .
Building Community in Houston
Alice Baker, Julia Ideson, and Ima Hogg
Kate Sayen Kirkland
Kate Sayen Kirkland’s Building Community in Houston: Alice Baker, Julia Ideson, and Ima Hogg presents three Houston women who used their family, nancial, and aspirational capital to bring social justice to citizens of a rapidly growing Southern city from 1903 to 1975. eir inclusive civic service and philanthropy paved the way for Houston’s desegregation and laid the foundation for the city’s openness to hundreds of immigrant communities. Baker, Ideson, and Hogg each listened, convened, cooperated, and built institutions that continue to serve Houston’s majority-minority population today.
Kirkland examines public records, reports in the media, and family papers to explore Baker’s founding and oversight of the Houston Se lement Association, now BakerRipley, the region’s largest nonpro t community building agency. Kirkland’s research in public library records reveals that Ideson, whose activities and in uence have not received scholarly a ention, established the Houston Public Library as a progressive municipal asset. Using extensive family papers and diaries, Kirkland presents Hogg, whose work as a promoter of the arts is broadly known, as a complex visionary of the urban ideal who also called a ention to mental health care, public education, historic preservation, and volunteerism.
ese history makers and in uential leaders commi ed their lives to improving the quality of life for Houstonians of every ethnicity and social stratum, becoming important, albeit unintentional, pioneers for social justice.
Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
TE SAYEN KIRKLAND has participated in Houston’s nonpro t sector for many years. She is the author of e Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal and Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941, which received the Texas Institute of Le ers award for the Most Signi cant Scholarly Book and won honorable mention for the Texas State Historical Association’s Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History in 2013.
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Ima Hogg’s Diaries, 1907–1918
Virginia Bernhard 978-1-64843-102-9 hardcover $29.95s 978-1-64843-103-6 ebook
Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941
Kate Sayen Kirkland
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From an isolated se lement beside a swampy bayou to an international center for business, medicine, and technology . . .
The Rise of Houston as a Global City
Geoffrey Scott Connor
Foreword by Cecilia Abbott
Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the nation. It has long been regarded as the “Energy Capital of the World.” Trademarked boasts frequently refer to the “world’s busiest commercial seaport,” “world’s biggest medical complex,” and “world’s control center for space exploration.” Houston has been home to some of the most politically powerful people in the world, some of the most in uential businesspeople, and some of the most dazzling social gures.
In e Rise of Houston as Global City, Geo rey Sco Connor follows the ascent of Houston from its founding by the Allen Brothers in 1836 as a edging port to its growth into a global center of international trade. Such rapid expansion began in earnest when, in 1901, a hurricane devastated Galveston and the Spindletop oil gusher changed Houston’s fortune forever. e city absorbed much of Galveston’s international trade even as it developed into the world’s largest site for re neries and chemical plants.
Connor also shows how local wealth and political power facilitated the establishment of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Hospital during World War II and its transformation into the world’s largest medical complex and a leading center of advanced medicine. e continually expanding Texas Medical Center treated the world’s elite while also developing new medical technologies for the general public. Having thus established itself as a center of technology, Houston again used its wealth and power to draw the Manned Space ight Center to the city in 1961. Space science depended on and a racted massive private sector investment, se ing the stage for yet another technological expansion in the age of computing. e Rise of Houston as a Global City will contribute to the growing corpus of studies focused on the history of a major city that, especially in the twentieth and twenty- rst centuries, blends “boots and oil” with technology, innovation, and ambition.
Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
GEOFFREY SCO CONNOR is a National Security Fellow at the Clements Center, University of Texas at Austin. He served as Texas Secretary of State from 2003 to 2005.
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Marguerite Johnston 978-1-60344-523-8 paper $29.95
Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center
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Noted by Barbara Bush
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Spindletop Boom Days
Paul N. Spellman
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You Saw Me on the Radio Recollections and Favorite Calls as the Voice of Aggie Athletics
Dave South
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The Texas Hill Country A Photographic Adventure
Michael H. Marvins
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The Cedar Choppers Life on the Edge of Nothing
Ken Roberts
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Grasses of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide
Brian Loflin and Shirley Loflin
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King Ranch
A Legacy in Art
Noe Perez
Edited by Bob Kinnan, William E. Reaves Jr. and Linda J. Reaves
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Texas Almanac 2026–2027
Edited by Brett Regan
The 2026–2027 Texas Almanac is ready for liftoff !
The 73rd edition—produced by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)—is loaded with more than 700 pages of all things Texas.
Unlock the history and future of space in the Lone Star State. Learn the importance of Spanish exploration to the area. Discover new lists of top attractions to add to your travel list.
Printed in full color, the feature articles only scratch the surface of what’s inside the state’s most popular reference book.
If you’re looking for the next landmark or state park to visit, wanting to know the movies filmed in your city, needing the date and time of the next eclipse, excited to relive your alma mater’s state championship, intrigued by the population of your hometown, or curious about the new bills passed during the 89th Legislative Session, it’s all there.
Plus, there’s hundreds of updated tables, maps, and facts for people of all ages to explore.
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Texas on This Day
Gary Vliet
Texas has a long and colorful history, and the highlights are presented in this well researched work from Gary Vliet. From Cabeza de Vaca’s shipwreck in 1528 through the Texas Revolution to the present day—almost 500 years of recorded history—a myriad of significant events in Texas history are recounted in an easily accessed style. These events are arranged by day of the year to allow readers to see into the past on any specific day. Expanding upon the author’s first day-by-day look at Texas history, this new and enhanced version offers many more vignettes on the story of the Lone Star State.
GARY VLIET, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He grew up in Alberta, Canada, and then studied and worked in California before joining the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), where he taught for 35 years. His other publications, besides a number of technical papers, are a book on solar energy, a biography of a family member, and a forthcoming centennial history of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT. He resides in Austin.
978-1-62511-081-7 paper $49.99
6x9. 525 pp. 22 illus. Texas History. Trivia. Reference. Available
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Under the Double Eagle Citizen Employees of the U.S. Army on the Texas Frontier, 1846–1899
Thomas Ty Smith
978-1-62511-072-5 hardcover $100.00
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Eleven Days on the Colorado
The Standoff Between the Texian and Mexican Armies and the Pivotal Battle Unfought
James E. Brasher
978-1-62511-077-0 paper $40.00
978-1-62511-078-7 ebook
Reinventing Texas
The Legacy of Santa Rita No.1
The oil well known as Santa Rita No. 1 had a tremendous effect on both higher education in Texas, especially the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, and the region in which it was drilled, the Permian Basin. Santa Rita No. 1 became the spark for reinventing Texas, igniting an economic conflagration that transformed the Permian Basin into the nation’s most productive oil producing region, reshaped the local ranching population into an urban, petroleum-oriented culture, and created one of the largest endowments supporting higher education in the United States. In 2023, one hundred years after Santa Rita No. 1 began producing, its legacy is alive and well. In the Permian Basin, a dynamic oilfield culture continues to produce a significant part of the nation’s energy, while it supports higher education at the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, and the many schools associated with each through their respective systems.
BOBBY D. WEAVER, born on November 6, 1936, in Coryell County, Texas, near Gatesville, graduated from high school in 1955 and sporadically attended night school at Odessa College while working in the oilfield and later a petrochemical plant. In January 1969, he transferred to Texas Technological College, whence he graduated in December 1970 with a B.A. in History. Weaver then moved to Corpus Christi to work for Reynolds Metal Company but enrolled in night classes at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville). He graduated with an M.A. in History in August 1972. In the Fall of 1974, he entered the Ph.D. program in History at Texas Tech University. He was a Field Representative for the Southwest Collection while working on his dissertation. In 1979, he went to work for the PanhandlePlains Historical Museum in Canyon, where in 1984 he completed his dissertation on Castro’s Colony, which was published by Texas A&M University Press. In the spring of 1988 Weaver went to work for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City as its Assistant Director, whence he retired at the end of 2001. Weaver has published several books including Panhandle Petroleum, European Folk Islands in Northwest Texas, Oilfield Trash, Hotter Than Pecos, and History of the National Cowboy Museum. He has also written more than 350 articles.
978-1-62511-079-4 paper $35.00
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6x9. 144 pp. 25 illus.
Energy. Business History. Texas History. Available
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Red Water, Black Gold
The Canadian River in Western Texas, 1920–1999
Margaret A. Bickers
978-1-62511-002-2 paper $30.00
Giant Under the Hill A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901
Jo Stiles, Judith
Walker Linsley and Ellen Walker Rienstra
978-0-87611-236-6 paper $29.95
University of North Texas Press
Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967–1973
Martin J. Murray
In Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State, Martin J. Murray uses his own personal engagement in the antiwar movement in Austin, Texas, to make sense of the entanglements between cycles of protest against the Vietnam War and the efforts of security agencies intent on suppressing dissent. Murray used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain FBI documents related to the Austin antiwar movement. He also examined the papers of three prominent Austin and University of Texas officials, enabling him to broaden his inquiry into uncovering the strategies and tactics of security agencies intent on undermining the antiwar movement.
In his autobiographical account, Murray tells two parallel stories. In the first he recounts his own experiences, starting with the Students for a Democratic Society. Following its collapse in 1969, Murray then discusses more militant direct actions, including the Waller Creek incident (October 1969), the Chuck Wagon police riot (November 1969), and a rising number of unauthorized marches, culminating in the massive twenty-five-thousandperson march on the State Capitol (May 7, 1970). Murray also draws a link between the participation of the Austin-based Armadillo Mayday Tribe in the 1971 Maydays demonstrations in Washington, DC, and the protests in May 1971 at the dedication to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library on the UT campus. He ends with the May 1972 National Guard occupation of the UT campus.
In the second story, Murray focuses on the security apparatuses and their far-reaching efforts to monitor political activists, infiltrate the antiwar movement with undercover informants, and disrupt protest activities. Murray argues that one cannot make sense of the cycles of insurgent protest in Austin without understanding the secretive role of law enforcement agencies that were committed to breaking the antiwar movement, whether within the framework of the law or outside it.
MARTIN J. MURRAY is professor of urban planning in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and adjunct professor in the department of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870–1940; Taming the Disorderly City; and City of Extremes: Spatial Politics in Johannesburg.
978-1-57441-981-8 cloth $29.95
978-1-57441-989-4 ebook
6x9. 480 pp. 41 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Texas Political History. Political Science.
August
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If White Kids Die Memories of a Civil Rights Movement
Volunteer Dick S. Reavis
978-1-57441-129-4
cloth $22.95
Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience
The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics during the Vietnam War
James C. Kearney, William H Clamurro
978-1-57441-896-5
cloth $34.95
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber
Henry Starr
From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
Mark Archuleta
In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era.
Born in 1873, Cherokee outlaw Henry Starr had survived shootouts and death sentences and lived long enough to witness the invention of moving pictures. In 1919, after Starr was released from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, a hotshot movie producer convinced him he had the looks, charisma, and “wild and woolly” life story to become the next big movie star.
When filming began in 1920, powerful organizations aligned to censor Starr, attempting to prevent him from exposing Oklahoma’s corrupt legal system and the government’s mistreatment of the Cherokee. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union pressured theater owners to ban his film, state and federal lawmakers drafted legislation to stymie theatrical distribution, and police and district attorneys threatened to send him back to prison.
Starr’s only film, the biographical movie A Debtor to the Law, is lost to history, but through surviving memorabilia, newspaper accounts, and interviews with people who worked with him on set, author Mark Archuleta traces how the reformed gentleman bandit attempted to use the power of cinema to reframe his life story and redeem himself in the eyes of the public, his family, and the Cherokee Nation.The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr is about more than heists and Hollywood glamor. Starr’s journey is about the American myth of reinvention, recidivism, and the founding of the motion picture industry when racial tensions were simmering to a boil.
MARK ARCHULETA is an Emmy-winning screenwriter, journalist, and performer. A fifth-generation Coloradoan of Spanish Basque descent, he grew up steeped in the history of the American West and the colorful characters who inhabited it. He lives in Green Valley, California.
978-1-57441-978-8 cloth $32.95
978-1-57441-986-3 ebook
6x9. 320 pp. 46 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Western History. Biography. Film.
July
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John Ringo, King of the Cowboys His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone, Second Edition
David Johnson Foreword by Chuck Parsons
978-1-57441-672-5
paper $19.95
Billy the Kid
El Bandido Simpático
James B. Mills
978-1-57441-878-1
cloth $34.95
Have Horn, Will Travel
The Life and Music of Herman “Junior” Cook
Courtney M. Nero
Have Horn, Will Travel is the first full-length biography of tenor saxophone virtuoso and in-demand sideman Herman “Junior” Cook, chronicling his life and impact from his Pensacola, Florida, origins to his New York City–based career. Best known for his association with pianist Horace Silver’s iconic quintet from 1958 to 1964, Cook continued as a mainstay in some of jazz’s hardestdriving ensembles—with trumpeters Blue Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, and Bill Hardman; drummers Louis Hayes and Elvin Jones; and the McCoy Tyner Big Band, among others—through the decades until his death in 1992.
Highlights of Cook’s life and career are retold from meticulous research and interviews with friends and musicians who knew and played with him, including Mosaic Records founder Michael Cuscuna, SteepleChase Records founder Nils Winther, and Cook’s right-hand bandmate and roommate, vocalist Timmy Shepherd. The book also relays some of Cook’s “lessons”—best practices of musicianship that young jazz fellow travelers learned from his example as a master musician in the 1980s New York City jam session scene. Those lessons embody the sense of deep community and the apprenticeship tradition of twentiethcentury jazz—a tradition that some musicians perceive is now lacking. Have Horn, Will Travel offers the reader a window into the life of arguably one of jazz’s great underrated practitioners, laying bare the triumph and tragedy of a musician whose career largely missed the spotlight and the marquee. While the name of Junior Cook is unknown to many who have heard his signature tenor on several of Horace Silver’s heralded compositions— including “Sister Sadie,” “Blowin the Blues Away,” and “Cookin’ at the Continental”—he was the inspiration of many of his contemporaries and marshaled a generation of young musicians into the jazz idiom while living a sideman’s life.
Number Twenty-one: North Texas Lives of Musician Series
COURTNEY M. NERO is a saxophonist, born and raised in Washington, DC, and a lover of jazz biographies. His debut solo album, Make Me Walk, was nominated for a Stellar Award in 2009. He earned a BS in Russian language from Georgetown University and an MA in International Affairs from American University. He lives in northern Virginia.
978-1-57441-982-5 cloth $29.95
978-1-57441-990-0 ebook
6x9. 288 pp. 47 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Biography. Music Studies.
October
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On the Way to the Sky Remembering Bob Brookmeyer
Michael Stephans
978-1-57441-969-6
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Soul Serenade
King Curtis and His Immortal Saxophone
Timothy R. Hoover
978-1-57441-881-1
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Yo Soy
From a Migrant Field Worker to a University Professor Roberto E. Villarreal
Yo Soy is a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal’s life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his childhood in the 1930s. Racism, bigotry, violence, and subordination formed a shell difficult to overcome. The “Mexican problem,” as it was known, was deeply ingrained in the life of the Anglo community, creating a perpetual labor class. As a result, Mexican Americans were poverty-stricken sharecroppers and migrants, with a complete disconnect between families and the school system.
This was the setting in South Texas where Villarreal grew up in the 1930s to 1950s. His desire to learn English and the American culture were blocked by various obstacles, such as school attendance in the spring semester only and migrant work in lieu of a fall semester. The best route for success was a formal education, but many Hispanic students dropped out of school at the fourth or fifth grade. Villarreal, however, fought to surmount the odds and an internal lack of confidence in order to achieve the highest level of education possible.
Villarreal first graduated from elementary school at the age of 18 and high school at 22. He soon became an unprepared university student but proceeded to acquire a bachelor’s degree in four years, followed by two master’s degrees and a PhD. In the process he taught migrants and elementary, high school, community college, and university-level students. While at the University of Texas at El Paso, Villarreal became highly productive as a teacher, author, administrator, president of the University Graduate Council, Fulbright Scholar, and community activist. Ultimately, the efforts of his generation’s entry into higher education brought greater integration between Anglos and Mexican Americans, better access to universities, greater graduation rates, and larger recognition and importance to the Mexican American community.
Number Fourteen: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
ROBERTO E. VILLARREAL received a PhD in political science from the University of Oklahoma and taught for nearly thirty years at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Chicano Elites and Non-Elites and coeditor of Latino Empowerment and Latinos and Political Coalitions
978-1-57441-985-6 cloth $34.95
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6x9. 240 pp. 37 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Mexican American Studies. Memoir. Texas History. November RELATED
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The Bell Ringer Victor Rodriguez
978-1-57441-846-0
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Americo Paredes In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography
Manuel Medrano
978-1-57441-847-7
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Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Outer Stars
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
In these seven short stories, both realist and speculative, Sundberg Lunstrum considers life in the Anthropocene, an era marked by individual isolation, environmental degradation, and the erosion of our relationships with one another and our land. As they encounter heartbreak and new love, the aches and joys of parenthood, and the grief of bodies in decline, her characters seek connection, identity, and purpose. They ask the questions we all ask: Can we hold on to each other across the fractures that divide us? How do we find belonging in the face of great loss? And is it possible to locate meaning—and even beauty—in our darkest moments? The stories in Outer Stars present the tensions of our age with clarity, but they also leave the reader with hope, affirming the truth of human resilience and compassion.
“Puzzle-box narratives containing secret spaces within secret spaces within secret spaces, some concealed so carefully among the interlocking literary mechanisms that one suspects there are secrets in this text that may not be discovered for centuries to come. This book is an extraordinary achievement.”—Matthew Baker, judge and author of The Sentence
Number Twenty-four: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM is the author of the novel Elita and three collections of short fiction. Her short fiction has been honored with a PEN / O. Henry Prize and she has been the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Sewanee and has held residencies through the Jack Straw Writers Program and the Willa Cather Foundation. Kirsten lives with her family near Seattle, where she teaches English in a K–12 school.
978-1-57441-980-1 paper $16.95
978-1-57441-988-7 ebook 51/2x81/2. 256 pp. Collection of Short Fiction.
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Where to Carry the Sound
Nina Sudhakar
978-1-57441-949-8 paper $16.95
What Did You Do Today?
Anthony Varallo 978-1-57441-915-3 paper $16.95
Fort Worth from World War II to 1960
Harold
Rich
Harold Rich reviews Fort Worth’s history during the challenging times of World War II, the postwar adjustment period, and the first full decade of the Cold War. What emerges is a portrait of a growing city developing major urban accoutrements such as industrialization, freeways, and an art infrastructure while also struggling with an active and sizable criminal underworld and the emerging Civil Rights Movement.
Fort Worth would achieve significant economic progress in the 1940s, especially from the addition of Convair, that would expand its population at a fast pace but would lose much of that momentum in the 1950s. During both decades the police confronted rising demands related to traffic control and internal corruption that most notably affected their ability to deal with gambling and prostitution, both of which seemed to be everywhere. As the 1950s drew to a close, both vices began to subside, more from a decline in public acceptance than from police activity. In contrast, little changed regarding race relation. More significant progress would come in the 1960s and accelerate thereafter.
Number Eleven: Texas Local Series
HAROLD RICH, a Fort Worth resident for seventy years, earned his PhD from Texas Christian University. He is the author of Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown and Fort Worth between the World Wars
978-1-57441-984-9 cloth $40.00
978-1-57441-992-4 ebook
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Frontera Freeways
Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas Miguel Juárez
Frontera Freeways explores the origins, development, and dismantling of a major barrio in the Texas city of El Paso. Miguel Juárez uses the case study of the Lincoln Park neighborhood, which emerged from the Village of Concordia, to analyze highway building in the region. It is at Lincoln Park where all of El Paso’s early freeways converge; thus, the community is also the focal point or ground zero of this study. The Lincoln Park Conservation Committee led the community in countering highway building in order to save Lincoln Park School, a former Mexican school in segregated El Paso and the city’s only cultural arts center before its closure in 2006.
“Frontera Freeways is rich in detail and encompasses an expansive historical period.”—Ricardo Romo, author of East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio Number Thirteen: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
MIGUEL JUÁREZ is a first-generation, multidisciplinary scholar/educator at the University of Texas at El Paso and at El Paso Community College. He is coeditor of Where Are All the Librarians of Color: The Experiences of People of Color in Academia and coauthor of Colors on Desert Walls: The Murals of El Paso.
978-1-57441-979-5 cloth $29.95s
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6x9. 288 pp. 10 b&w illus. 9 maps. Notes. Bib. Index. Mexican American Studies. Texas History. September
Reannounced
Gather ’Round
Gatherings in Texas and the Southwest
Edited by Kristina Downs
Compiled by members of the Texas Folklore Society, this collection of pieces that focus on gatherings of all kinds ranges from personal reflections to scholarly analyses. Some authors discuss the place that gatherings have in marking all stages of life, from birth to death, while others consider gatherings based on special interests, such as crafting and music.
A variety of food-related traditions are spotlighted, including canning, tamaladas, and gatherings at local diners. Special attention also goes to distinctive Southwestern traditions such as cattle drives, cowboy poetry gatherings, and rattlesnake roundups.
Throughout the book authors consider the importance of coming together and the ways that communities are built and strengthened through traditional gatherings.
Number Seventy-three: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
KRISTINA DOWNS is the executive director of the Texas Folklore Society and assistant professor of English at Tarleton State University. She is coeditor of Advancing Folkloristics.
978-1-957720-02-9 cloth $29.95s
978-1-957720-03-6 ebook
6x9. 416 pp. 85 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Texas Folklore.
December
New in paper War in the
Villages
The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
Ted N. Easterling
Much of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the US Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of defending them from both the National Liberation Front guerrillas and the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army. The CAPs also worked to improve living conditions by helping the people with projects such as building schools, bridges, and irrigation systems for their fields. In War in the Villages, Ted Easterling examines how well the CAPs performed as a counterinsurgency method, how the Marines adjusted to life in the Vietnamese villages, and how they worked to accomplish their mission.
“Easterling presents a valuable contribution to an understudied topic.”—Journal of Military History
Number Five: American Military Studies
TED N. EASTERLING served as a US Marine in the Vietnam War. He received his PhD in history from the University of Akron, where he taught history. He lives in Munroe Falls, Ohio.
978-1-57441-826-2 cloth $29.95
978-1-57441-994-8 paper $18.95
978-1-57441-834-7 ebook
6x9. 272 pp. 26 b&w illus. 2 maps. Notes. Bib. Index. Vietnam. Military History.
August
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Vol. 12
Edited by Gayle Reaves
This anthology collects the eight winners of the 2024 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Bridget Grumet for “The Butterfly Effect,” a series examining both the problem of teen dating violence and the operation of the Texas prison system through the lens of three people whose lives were changed by the 2003 murder of a 15 year old (Austin AmericanStatesman). Second place: Keri Blakinger for “The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row” (New York Times). Third place: Edgar Sandoval for “Two Children, a Burst of Gunfire and the Year That Came After” (New York Times).
Runners-up include Peter Jamison, “The Revolt of Christian Homeschoolers” (The Washington Post); Sydney Brownstone, “Lost Patients” (Seattle Times); Suzette Hackney, “American Contagion” (USA TODAY); Connor Sheets, “From a One-Way Flight to Sleeping in a Parking Lot” (Los Angeles Times); and Rick Jervis, “We Don’t Seem to Learn” (USA TODAY).
GAYLE REAVES was a projects reporter and assistant city editor for the Dallas Morning News, where she was part of the team that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. In 1990, along with two colleagues, she received the George Polk Award.
978-1-57441-983-2 paper $16.95
978-1-57441-991-7 ebook
6x9. 240 pp. Literary Nonfiction. September
UNT Press Backlist
Rattler One-Seven
A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot’s War Story
Chuck Gross
978-1-57441-221-5 paper $14.95
A Deeper Blue
The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt
Robert Earl Hardy
978-1-57441-285-7 paper $14.95
All Over The Map
True Heroes of Texas Music
Michael Corcoran
978-1-57441-710-4 paper $19.95
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, and Legacy
Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice
978-1-57441-884-2 paper $29.95
Living in the Woods in a Tree
Remembering Blaze Foley
Sybil Rosen
Foreword by Ethan Hawke
978-1-57441-676-3 paper $19.95
State House Press
Ranger Origins
The Republic of Texas 1836–1845
Paul D. Lack
Texans take great pride in having been an independent nation prior to annexation to the United States, but few understand the overwhelming challenges even to the basic demand on all government; i.e., providing protection and security. When the government proved incapable of fulfilling its most basic responsibilities, citizen-soldiers did the job themselves, saving the country until the U. S. came to the rescue. The Rangers prevailed because of captains and volunteers alike who, though having no formal training, grasped key strategic and tactical principles, allowing them to prevail against equally courageous enemies, earning their hold on the land in a primal struggle for survival. The Rangers enrolled hundreds of volunteers; in fact, in the hotly contested areas a clear majority of settlers turned out in response to calls for Ranger companies issued by leaders who would become legendary. They watered the land with their own blood and that of their enemies, a story that has never before been told comprehensively and accurately.
PAUL D. LACK, author of The Texas Revolutionary Experience, was a professor at McMurry University until 2002, when he began working as the executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Stevenson University, where he was awarded the President’s Medal in 2015. He retired in 2016. He is a longtime member of the Texas State Historical Association and has been on the advisory board for the Handbook of Texas.
978-1-64967-030-4 paper $17.95
978-1-64967-032-8 ebook
6x9. 180 pp. 17 maps and illus. Bib. Index. Texas history.
November
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Lust for Glory
An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation
Stephen L. Hardin 978-1-933337-75-3 paper $39.95
Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger
The Life and Times of a Fighting Man
Chuck Parsons, Marianne Hall Little
Introduction by Dolph Briscoe
978-1-880510-74-2 paper $24.95
“From Spindletop to the Permian: How Oil and Grit Built Texas.”
Highlights the journey from the first gusher to modern oil fields, with a nod to Texas tenacity.
Under Texas Skies Oil, Ranches, and the Dreams That Shaped a State Julie DeWees Sparks
Beneath the vast, unyielding Texas sky lies a story of grit, gushers, and grandeur—a tale of how oil, cattle, and the audacious dreams of larger-than-life figures forged a state unlike any other. Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and Dreams that Shaped a State takes readers on a sweeping journey through Texas history, from the explosive birth of the modern petroleum industry at Spindletop to the fracking boom and beyond. This is not just a chronicle of black gold; it’s a vibrant tapestry of ranches sprawling across millions of acres, visionary philanthropists building cities from scratch, and a cowboy culture that defied stereotypes to fuel a global economic titan.
With 22 meticulously researched chapters, Under Texas Skies uncovers the improbable friendships, family dynasties, and technological leaps that defined Texas. Discover how oil taxes—starting with a modest 1905 levy—built a state without income tax, funding highways, Neiman Marcus glamour, and a war-winning effort in World War II with pipelines and synthetic rubber. Texas also played a crucial role during World War I, as the nation relied on its oil to power military vehicles and support the war effort. From the million-acre ranches of Texas to the coastal wells rising from Gulf waves, this book captures the raw energy of a land where dreams were as big as the horizon.
JULIE DEWEES SPARKS retired from British Petroleum in 2016 after a distinguished career in the energy industry in Houston. A proud alumna of LSU with a BS in International Finance and the University of Houston with an MBA in Economics, Julie’s academic achievements laid the foundation for her impressive career. Since 2018, Julie brings her passion for history to life as a docent at the prestigious Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, a jewel in the crown of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her commitment to preserving and promoting Texas heritage doesn’t stop there. Julie lends her expertise to the Advisory Board of The Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville, a newly minted institution dedicated to fostering appreciation for the Lone Star State’s storied past and vibrant present. From 2018 to 2021, she also contributed her insights as a board member of the Texas Historical Foundation. She lives in Houston.
978-1-64967-031-1 paper $39.95
978-1-64967-033-5 ebook
6x9. 350 pp. Illustrations. Bib. Index. Texas history. Oil exploration. Ranching. November
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Ever Remember The Days of 1913-14
John A. Pearce
978-1-933337-61-6 paper $19.99
A Private in the Texas Army
At War in Italy, France, and Germany with the 111th Engineers, 36th Division, in World War II
John A. Pearce
978-1-64967-005-2 paper $39.95
978-1-64967-006-9
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TRP: The University Press of SHSU
Anthology of Poems with Extraordinary Endings
Breaking into Blossom Poems with Extraordinary Endings
Luke Hankins & Nomi Stone, co-editors
Breaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal DNA. In their introductory craft essay, co-editors Luke Hankins and Nomi Stone grapple with questions of closure, wholeness, pleasure, power, universalism, subjectivity, discord, exclusion, resistance, surprise, and bewilderment. Finding fracturing points in their own conversation while considering the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of different kinds of endings, the editors consider such questions as the value of epiphany, what kinds of endings might be likelier to be commodified, how the poem and the mind keep going beyond the page, and more. Hankins and Stone also offer a taxonomy of ending types to think with. This groundbreaking anthology includes poems about mystery, love, dread, cruelty, violence and war; poems of motherhood; of disability; of masculinity; of queerness; of baldness. Poems of transforming bodies and Black joy and failure and hope. The poems sometimes break into blossom; other times, they just break. Or they leave us in wonderment with their quiet buds unfolding into the world.
LUKE HANKINS is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Radiant Obstacles and Weak Devotions, as well as a poetry chapbook, Testament (TRP, 2023). He is also the author of a collection of essays, The Work of Creation, and a volume of translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems. With Nomi Stone, Hankins is co-editor of Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems. He is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives. Poet and anthropologist NOMI STONE is the author of three books, most recently the poetry collection Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019), finalist for the Julie Suk Award, and the ethnography Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2023), first prize in the Middle East Studies Award from the American Anthropological Association and Honorable Mention of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize. With Luke Hankins, Stone is co-editor of Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright fellowship, she was most recently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology at Princeton and she is currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas.
978-1-68003-438-7 paper $29.95
978-1-68003-439-4 ebook
7x9. 200 pp. 2 illustrations Poetry. Literary Studies. November
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Literary Writing in the 21st Century Conversations
Anis Shivani
978-1-68003-1294 paper with flaps $24.95 978-1-68003-130-0
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The Southwest Anthology
The Best of the Writing Programs
Edited by Deseree Probasco, Mike Hilbig, and Donna M. Finney et. al.
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Winner of The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss
Fenestration
Poems
Othuke Umukoro
Fenestration excavates public and private history. The poems here bristle with striking clarity and immediacy, confronting subjects such as the transatlantic slave trade, familial memory, environmental perils, and more. What happened inside those terrifying slave depots like Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, where enslaved Africans were caged before facing the horror of the Middle Passage? How does one carry the memory of his dead father? Fenestration, throbbing with an unflinching consciousness that splices history and memory, unfurls with answers.
OTHUKE UMUKORO, Nigerian poet and playwright, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he won the Academy of American Poets University Poetry Prize. Winner of the prestigious Brunel International African Poetry Prize, his work appears in Ploughshares, POETRY, The Hudson Review, The Poetry Review (UK), Poetry Ireland, and elsewhere.
“Othuke’s heart-centric new work, Fenestration, is filled with tender poems of discovery. They stay with the reader long after the end of a page, and the book. The strength of these poems is in the refined delicacy of understanding, through dilated pupils, the bayonets’ knife’s edge. Both through the intimacy of complex love between father and son, and the sweeping and intimate pain of those Africans whose involuntarily journeys created the African diaspora we know today, we comprehend what it means to perceive the world through haunted, multi-century somatic knowing.”—Tracie Morris, author of human/nature poems
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The Book of Drought Poems
Rob Carney
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Sebastian Merrill
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cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity and the female gaze
Boys Behind Glass
Poems
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, art by Jenny Walton
Boys Behind Glass is a cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity through the lens of matchmaking, pop culture, scientific “progress” and female gaze. This third collection from Jennifer Sperry Steinorth continues a trajectory of genre-bending poetry, this time in collaboration with artist Jenny Walton, whose documentary series Match/Enemy creates a visual algorithm of her experience on OKCupid and explores how men-seeking-women represent themselves via anonymity. In the first half of the book, watercolor portraits of single men are paired with irreverent “sonnets” gazing into the mind of a fictional woman looking at the men, looking for love. The second half is a maximalist kaleidoscope, masquerading as elaborate end notes, a diagnostic of loneliness through a wiki-esque labyrinth of technology and iconography. The culmination is a carousal of sex, selfies, heroes, and techies, what we long for & the many ways we hide.
JENNIFER SPERRY STEINORTH’s books include Boys Behind Glass, A Wake with Nine Shades, and Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Fred Whitehead Award and a Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared at The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Plume, and TriQuarterly. She has been awarded grants & fellowships from the University of Michigan, Yale, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers and elsewhere. She lectures at the University of Michigan and is at work on a biography of C.D. Wright. Washington D.C. artist JENNY WALTON holds an MFA from American University. Her work has been critically reviewed and shown in New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle and Italy. Her awards include grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
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8.3x11.7. 140 pp. 52 color paintings Poetry. Art. Women’s Studies.
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Her Read
A Graphic Poem
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Introduction by Eleanor Wilner
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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
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Winner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize
Selected by Kaveh Akbar
About, Above, Around
50 Prepositions
Mark Mayer
“We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by,” William James writes. In About, Above, Around, fifty prepositions reveal the subtle syntax of our inner lives, offering a new yet ancient vocabulary for charting how feeling moves within and between and around us. Kaveh Akbar, selecting the collection for the George Garrett Prize, says: “About, Above, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we’re held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous, impressive books I’ve read in ages.”
MARK MAYER’s first book, Aerialists: Stories (Bloomsbury 2019) was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His stories have been published in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, River Styx, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the University of Memphis MFA program.
“ About, Above, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we’re held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous, impressive books I’ve read in ages.” Kaveh Akbar, contest judge and author of Martyr
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6x9. 160 pp.
Collection of Short Fiction.
November
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Lady Without Land Señorita Sin Tierra Krystal Anali Vazquez
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Urban re-imagining of Dante’s “Inferno”
City of Dis
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Novel-in-Verse
Randall James Tyrone
Randall James Tyrone’s debut collection City of Dis is a searing exploration of contemporary existence intertwined with medieval notions of damnation, invoking Dante’s “Inferno” to craft a modern-day epic. Doubling as a novel-in-verse, City of Dis follows the unnamed protagonist as they navigate a cityscape that is both a circle of hell and also the urban sprawl of 21st-century America. Amidst the cacophony of sirens, construction, and hurricanes fueled by climate change, Tyrone weaves a tapestry where pop culture, late-stage capitalism, and the daily struggles imposed by inequities of race and class in this urban inferno collide with arcane theology, existential dread, and something like divine comedy. Through forms ranging from epistolary to litany, Tyrone’s speaker charts every chaotic inch of this dystopian landscape, encountering Dante himself as they confront the personification of Suicide. City of Dis stands not only as a vivid critique of modern society but also as a haunting testament to resilience in the face of spiritual and environmental decay.
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RANDALL JAMES TYRONE holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. He resides in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Oversound Poetry, and Nomadic Press He has been anthologized in the Bodies Built For A Game Anthology by Prairie Schooner. He has received a scholarship to attend the Tin House Summer Workshop and was awarded the Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend the Writers Week at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. He was a finalist for the Indiana Review’s 1�2 K Prize and a finalist for The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. He’s very excited for you.
“Reginald Shepherd called us out twenty years ago: we’re all urban now, but we’ve been stuck in a rural poetics, ‘still struggling toward a poetic language of the city.’ Until now. Randall Tyrone just invented that language. Tyrone’s city is mythical and abyssal and oracular and real. It is where we live, and who we are. City of Dis is not a place of ‘my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils’; it is a place of ‘Tell me pushpin cubical tapestry / who do I work for,’ packed here ‘like gunpowder / in a suicidal chamber.’ Welcome to the City of Dis. We’re not in the Lake District anymore.”—H. L. Hix , author of American Outrage
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7x9. 80 pp. Poetry. African American Studies, Texas.
September
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Whatever Happened to Black Boys? Poems
James Jabar
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Eschatology in Crayon Wax Poems
Joshua Robbins
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From the author of Quiver
Distributary Poems
Luke Johnson
Distributary picks up where the speaker from Quiver left off and delves deeper in that speaker’s concerns and fears around fatherhood, cultural violence and his daughter’s illness. It is a book of sirens and ghosts, of time collapse. How many moments tangle and spark in the waking moments of our lives. It houses a grainy melancholia, paradigms of grief. Houses hope.
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LUKE JOHNSON’s first book Quiver (TRP, 2023) was named a finalist for the California Book Award and finished finalist for prizes such as the Jake Adam York, The Levis and the Vassar Miller Award. Johnson is the co-author of A Slow Indwelling, a call and response project with the poet Megan Merchant (Harbor Editions). You can read more of his work at Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.
“What’s the sound of a voice wanting to help/but trapped inside the nets of helping? A man who knows loss like he knows rage, a first skin? In Distributary, Luke Johnson speaks that voice in thick and throbbing language, in lines where sound drives desire into burning.” Jan Beatty, author of Dragstripping
“Distributary celebrates renewal. Johnson’s astonishing language surprises and satiates us, reminding us of life’s inevitable joys. Distributary is more than a book— it’s an experience that lingers long after you’ve turned the final page.” Alexis Sears, author of Out of Order
“ These poems are grounded in the physical world, and when you touch these pages, you will get Earth on your fingers.” Jeffrey McDaniel, author of Holidays in the Islands of Grief
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51/2x81/2. 100 pp. Poetry.
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Luke Johnson
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Matt W. Miller
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From the author of Spit, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
Frame Inside a Frame
Poems
Daniel Lassell
Frame Inside a Frame by Daniel Lassell explores the boundaries, overlaps, and portals of memory and seeking. Lassell’s collection is wildly surprising at every turn, greeting readers with visceral childhood memories, gritty landscapes of climate collapse, a quirky neighbor transfi xed on love, a sexual predator who breaks into homes, a bat that disrupts sleep, a llama that bites off a man’s ear, a dog that eats the family’s Thanksgiving turkey, farmers condemning their machinery to rot in fields, a cow carcass that washes up on a city’s waterfront park, a hooligan feeding possums trash, and pollen everywhere. Taken together, Frame Inside a Frame is a constellation eyed toward the exploration of distance and meanings inherent within distance and proximity.
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DANIEL LASSELL is the author of Spit, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and two chapbooks, Ad Spot and The Emptying Earth. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Arkansas International, Colorado Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. Raised in Kentucky, he now lives with his family in Bloomington, Indiana.
“Lassell is a poet of generous intellect who employs an admirable economy of words to explore a world where grief is ‘more commonplace than joy,’ and we are caught ‘between question and haunt.’”—Frank Paino, author of Dark Octaves and Obscura
“ W hat elevates this collection into the quietly sublime is the poetic voice of Daniel Lassell—direct, honest, revelatory—a humble witness to the beauty and the carnage of our times.”—David Shumate, author of Kimonos in the Closet and The Floating Bridge
“ In Lassell’s gentle and capable hands, an aperture closes and opens like the valves of an alive and beating heart.”—Ama Codjoe, author of Bluest Nude
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Stray Latitudes Poems
Dan Leach
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Forrest Rapier
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Poems about healing intergenerational trauma
My Mother, the Butcher Poems
Gerard Robledo
In this visceral debut poetry chapbook, My Mother, the Butcher, Mexican American poet, Gerard Robledo, sets his speaker to confront the lasting scars of a traumatic childhood marked by alcoholism, neglect, and emotional cruelty. Undaunted, he dredges the devastating history of familial pain and a mother’s callousness which haunts his daily life as a single father raising a daughter. In the process, he tries to reconcile his cultural and masculine identity with his own truth, as his struggles with alcoholism, religion, and self-worth threaten to consume him. This sincere poetry collection dissects the complexity of generational trauma—fractured parts of the self; the struggle to heal, break free, and find one’s identity. It also presents a necessary perspective on the non-traditional experiences of a single Latino father, the struggles faced, and the beauty of one’s own humanity—even in the face of unrelenting pain.
The TRP Chapbook Series
GERARD ROBLEDO is a Mexican American poet from San Antonio and an Immigrant son. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and teaches at Palo Alto College. His Spanish language poetry translations, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in Voices de la Luna, The Texas Observer, Oyster River Pages, Solstice Magazine, Poetrybay, Vox Populi, and others. He is a Macondo Writers’ Workshop Fellow, and a recipient of the 2020 Eduardo Corral Emerging Latinx Writers Mentorship.
“Penned with intense and captivating energy, Gerard Robledo’s My Mother the Butcher is deeply pleasurable to read, even as it evokes painful family dynamics. . . . A gorgeous collection—visceral, musical, propulsive, and vivid in ways that wow me again and again.”— Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
“ Gerard Robeldo’s vulnerability and self-awareness are striking and brutal . . . In the face of trauma and nostalgia, Robledo finds redemption in the mundane forging a hopeful path forward.” Ruben Quesada , author of Brutal Companion
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51/2x81/2. 40 pp. Poetry. Mexican American Studies.
September
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Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either Poems
Marisa Tirado
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Lotería Poems
Esteban Rodríguez
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Gerard Robledo
The Iridescents Stories
Emrys Donaldson
Steeped in a fabulist version of the American South, The Iridescents highlights how the LGBTQ+ community transforms everyday acts of support and survival into miracles, redefining sainthood and spiritual history through the lens of queer resilience and fierce joy. A trans man visits a donut shop with his ailing dog to pray for advice. Genderqueer lovers search the desert for a ballerina saint. Threehundred-year-old crustacean oracles predict the future of our oceans. Blending irreverence with reverence, these stories explore the contemporary yearning to find meaning in something larger than ourselves.
EMRYS DONALDSON’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, LitHub, and The Rumpus, among other venues. Donaldson lives in Atlanta with his partner and their three dogs. Find out more at emrysdonaldson.com.
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978-1-68003-437-0 ebook 51/2x81/2. 100 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. Fiction. November
Feminist poems on pleasure and paradise
In This Distance
Poems
Brooke Sahni
In This Distance examines the relationship between distance and desire, the erotic and the ecstatic, pleasure and paradise. Esther Perel, Audre Lorde and the biblical figure of Eve co-exist in this collection, offering their real and imagined insight as the speaker grapples with questions such as: do we need distance in order to maintain desire? Where is paradise? What constitutes an Eden?
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BROOKE SAHNI is the author of Before I Had the Word (TRP, 2021), which won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona.
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978-1-68003-431-8 ebook 6x81/2. 60 pp. Poetry. Women’s Studies. September
Brooke Sahni
From the author of the award-winning collections
To Keep Him Hidden and Distant Engines
The
Cave Poems
Ryan Vine
Critics describe The Cave, the long-awaited second collection from award-winning poet Ryan Vine, as “powerful and completely realized,” “profound and enduring,” and “utterly masterful and deeply moving.” The Cave contains haunting meditations on fatherhood, fearless contemplations of place and lineage, clear-eyed examinations of generational trauma, and moves—from narrative to lyric to narrative to lyric—toward a more perfect and complete clarity. The poet Dobby Gibson writes: “The Cave is an unforgettable contribution to the poetry of paterfamilias written from deep inside “love’s austere and lonely offices,” as Robert Hayden put it. These poems are indelible as scars—and just as full of ancient wisdom.”
21st Century Poets Series
RYAN VINE is the author of To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon Poetry, 2018), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; and the chapbooks WARD (TRP, 2021); and Distant Engines (Backwaters Press, 2006), winner of a Weldon Kees Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac. He is Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN.
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6x9. 90 pp. Poetry. September
Inaugural selection of the VersoFrontera series
Selected by Octavio Quintanilla
Unburying the Bones
Poems
Victoria Buitron
Unburying the Bones is a book of poetry that serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling—but always present— either in the firm of their ribcage or the soft of their thighs. The poems bring to the fore pain made corporeal, the roots of misogyny, femicide, and the depths of matrilineality.
It is an exploration of intimacy while reflecting on the lengths society has gone to subdue women. The writer reclaims sex as pleasure, her body as home, and her fear into drive.
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VICTORIA BUITRON is a writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. She is currently the competitions editor for Harbor Review. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press, 2022), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives federal funding. She has been the series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023. Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications, VONA, and more organizations have championed her work through grants or writing residencies. Unburying the Bones is her debut poetry collection.
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978-1-68003-447-9 ebook 7x9. 90 pp. Poetry. Women’s Studies. November
Ryan Vine
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What is the true meaning of family?
A Family of Good Women
Teddy Jones
Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone.
The business thrives, love arrives in the form of mysterious Texas Ranger, and Imogene takes in a stray dog and a runaway cousin from the Good family farm in East Texas. But months later, as fatigue, mounting threats, and violence against her business threatens to overwhelm her, she finds refuge in the contents of a trunk she carted to town after her mother’s death.
In it, Imogene finds secrets about the women who raised her that changes her life and her understanding of family. Can the Good women build a new life from the ashes of hardship on the inhospitable plains of the 1920s Texas Panhandle?
Inspired by historical events, A Family of Good Women is a compelling tale of inner strength, the bonds of family, and the power of the human spirit.
Since completing a graduate degree in creative writing in 2012, TEDDY JONES has made creating fiction her full-time occupation. She’s had six novels and a collection of short stories published and collected some prizes along the way. Jackson’s Pond, Texas was finalist in the Women Writing the West Willa Award for contemporary fiction in 2014, and one of her short stories won the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition first prize medal in 2015. Marva Cope, another novel, was named finalist for the Sarton Award in 2024.
978-1-965766-24-8 paper 51/2x81/2. 332 pp. Fiction. Historical Fiction. Texas.
September
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Someday Belongs to Us Margie Seaman
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Why clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change
Why We Struggle to Go Green Hard Truths About the Clean Energy Transition
Thomas Manuel Ortiz
Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls to abandon fossil fuels for renewable technology — or vice versa — lies a troubling truth: No clean technological solutions can solve the problem of human-induced climate change.
To find a credible path to a sustainable future, we must set aside hopes of building our way out of humanity’s addictions to energy and material convenience. In Why We Struggle to Go Green, Tom Ortiz offers a clear-eyed assessment of our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. As a mechanical engineer who has traversed the conventional and renewable energy landscapes for 30 years, Ortiz provides an in-depth yet easy-to-understand assessment of the harsh reality facing mankind.
Bridging the gap between academic research and journalism, Ortiz shows why there are no easy answers in the energy transition. Beginning with a general overview of human energy use and a summary of key physical constraints on energy and natural resource extraction, the book details five pillars of the transition: electrification, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, recycling, and carbon pricing. Ortiz concludes with recommendations for changes society can make that, while perhaps painful and controversial, will reduce our collective environmental impact and bequeath a more manageable legacy to future generations.Why We Struggle to Go Green isn’t climate denial, it’s climate change realism from someone who’s spent decades looking for solutions.
THOMAS MANUEL ORTIZ is an engineer with 30 years of diverse experience in energy, from hydrogen/solar cogeneration research and the use of recycled carbon dioxide as a net-zero refrigerant to oil and gas exploration, production and refining to offshore wind siting and carbon sequestration. Tom, author of the popular Substack newsletter Resource Realism, holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in finance from Texas A&M University. He is also a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. He lives in Austin with his wife.
978-1-965766-28-6 paper 6x9. 270 pp. Environment. Energy. September
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Deconstructed An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades Loren C. Steff y and Stan Marek
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Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why?
Award-winning author Cynthia Leal Massey returns with a novel based on a 1950s-era murder
Well of Deception
Cynthia Leal Massey
On the morning of March 14, 1958, breeder Maggie Schneider, the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, is shot and killed while feeding her prize-winning, White Holland turkeys on her farm in south central Texas. Everyone knows who did it, but finding the killer isn’t so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family history of insanity, accidental deaths, and suicides. Was Maggie Schneider’s murder the result of a tainted bloodline, a family feud gone too far, or something more sinister?
Inspired by true events, novelist Cynthia Leal Massey weaves an intricate tale that spans the decades from the Great Depression to the crippling drought of the fifties. This is not a whodunnit. The mystery here is more profound: Why did he do it?
CYNTHIA LEAL MASSEY is a former corporate editor, college instructor, and magazine editor. She has published hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and several award-winning books, including Death of a Texas Ranger, A True Story of Murder and Vengeance on the Texas Frontier, which won a San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award and a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award, and What Lies Beneath, Texas Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards, also a SACS Award winner. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Cynthia has resided in Helotes, twenty miles northwest of the Alamo City since 1994. She served on the town’s city council for sixteen years. She holds a master’s degree in English from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. A full-time writer, she is a past president of Women Writing the West and a member of Western Writers of America.
“Massey’s novel is an absorbing, spot-on evocation of a time and place, and a vivid portrayal of a tough, troubled, extended family dealing with the harsh realities of farm life in Texas in the late 1950s – drought, loneliness, obsession, and shameful secrets.”—Donis Casey, author of the Alafair Tucker Mysteries
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Bound in Silence An Unsolved Murder in a Small Texas Town Christena Stephens 979-8-98790-020-8 paperback $24.95 979-8-9879002-1-5 ebook Runners Phil Oakley 978-1-965766-14-9 paper $22.95 978-1-965766-15-6 ebook
A gripping tale of small-town intrigue and corruption
Bullets in the Water
Conor McAnally
When Mike Carson, a disgraced New York journalist, returns to his Texas hometown to sell his late uncle’s house, what should be a simple task quickly spirals out of control.
Asked to investigate a suspicious death, Carson uncovers a web of lies, self-dealing, and drug trafficking that reaches the highest levels of local government and law enforcement. With each revelation, the stakes grow higher, and Carson finds himself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.
McAnally masterfully weaves together multiple storylines, creating a rich tapestry of small-town life that feels authentic and lived in. From the seedy underbelly of local politics to the struggles of everyday citizens, every character and setting rings true.
As Carson grapples with his own demons and past mistakes, readers will find themselves rooting for this flawed but determined hero.
Fast-paced, with a colorful cast of characters and razor-sharp dialogue, Bullets in the Water is a must-read for fans of crime fiction and investigative thrillers.
CONOR McANALLY is an award-winning writer, performer, producer and TV director. A native of Ireland, he is a former investigative print, radio and television journalist. He has produced thousands of factual and entertainment television shows for networks worldwide. He created, wrote, produced and directed the hybrid youth drama series Over The Wall for BBC, and he has written and performed three one-man shows. His passions have included skydiving and gardening, motor racing and cooking, motor cycling and golfing, poetry and performing — although not all at the same time. He has homes in Austin, Texas, and Galway, Ireland.
978-1-965766-32-3 paper
51/2x81/2. 356 pp. Fiction. Crime. Texas. November
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A
balanced and nuanced portrayal of a controversial figure
The Old Alcalde Life and Times of a Texas Fire-Eater, Oran Milo Roberts
John A. Adams. Jr.
A compelling historical biography that offers an in-depth look at one of Texas’ most influential and controversial figures during the tumultuous mid-19th century. This meticulously researched work by John A. Adams, Jr. provides a vivid portrayal of Roberts’ life, from his humble beginnings in Alabama to his rise as a prominent jurist and political leader in Texas.
The biography expertly weaves Roberts’ personal story with the broader historical context of Texas and the nation, shedding light on the motivations and beliefs that drove Roberts and many of his contemporaries. It provides a nuanced understanding of the complex social, political, and economic forces that shaped the state’s development and skillfully examines Roberts’ evolving political views, particularly his staunch advocacy for states’ rights and his eventual embrace of secession.
Adams’ engaging narrative style brings historical figures to life, offering readers a front-row seat to the debates and decisions that shaped Texas history. The Old Alcalde is essential reading for scholars of Texas history, Civil War enthusiasts, and anyone interested in understanding the complex dynamics that led to the secession of Texas from the Union.
JOHN A. ADAMS, JR. is the author of twenty books, including biographies of Governors Sul Ross of Texas and John Milton of Florida and the forthcoming chronicle on Edward L. Blackshear, renowned principal of Prairie View A&M University. He received the prestigious T. R. Fehrenbach Award for Damming the Colorado.
978-1-965766-30-9 hardcover
6x9. 400 pp. Biography. Texas History. November
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A new translation of one of the most influential poets of the 20th century
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
A 150th Anniversary Reader
Donald Mace Williams
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote many short lyric poems of remarkable beauty and intensity. In honor of Rilke’s 150th birthday, Donald Mace Williams has selected some of the best and brought these works of one of the 20th century’s most influential poets to English-speaking audiences. Williams’ translations capture the eloquence and character of Rilke’s own words while preserving the metrical verse of the original poems, which are presented side-by-side with the English translations. German. Williams’ translation of “The Girl Grown Up,” included in this collection, was selected as the winner of the 2024 Der Hovanessian Translation Prize by the New England Poetry Club.
DONALD MACE WILLIAMS is a former writing coach for The Wichita Eagle and reporter and editor for papers that include Newsday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Amarillo Globe-News. He has taught English and journalism at West Texas State and Baylor Universities. Williams holds a doctorate in English from the University of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, and his poetry has been published widely in journals in the U.S. and was collected in The Nectar Dancer. He is the author of Interlude in Umbarger: Italian POWs and a Texas Church, and the novels Black Tuesday’s Child and The Sparrow and the Hall. His epic poem Wolfe and his memoir Being Ninety were published as a single edition in February 2023 and his translation Beowulf: For Fireside and Schoolroom was published in 2024.
“We always need more Rilke translations to keep this astonishing poet alive. Donald Mace Williams’ work is confident in its own voice, almost hauntingly poignant at times, and of an eloquence that rivals Rilke’s own without ever simply copying the original poet. It will speak to you and invite you to respond. —Christophe Fricker, poet and translator, Associate Professor of German and Translation, University of Bristol
978-1-965766-34-7 paper
51/2x81/2. 142 pp. Poetry. July
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Fasten your seatbelt—your journey into the skies begins here!
Aviation Therapy
Stories of Perseverance and Personal Growth from the Cockpit
David Dale
Take flight on an inspiring journey of personal growth, resilience, and adventure—perfect for aspiring pilots, military history buffs, and anyone seeking a story of perseverance and triumph!
Aviation Therapy is a deeply personal aviation memoir—an intersection of extraordinary world events and one man’s transformation through flight. From navigating B-52 nuclear alert missions during the Cold War to wartime air refueling in Desert Storm and the Bosnian War, to flying General Tommy Franks after 9/11, Dale’s journey took him from a quiet navigator to commanding an elite squadron responsible for flying the nation’s top military leaders.
Packed with gripping firsthand accounts and invaluable life lessons, Aviation Therapy is “Chicken Soup for the Skies”—a testament to how aviation can shape character, build confidence, and inspire a sense of purpose.
Houston native DAVID DALE is a fifth-generation Texan who graduated as a fourth-generation Longhorn from the University of Texas at Austin with a Business Administration degree. He was commissioned in 1984 as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. His aviation articles have appeared in Plane & Pilot magazine and on Avgeekery.com. David is currently a Boeing 737 captain for Southwest Airlines. He resides in the Texas Hill Country west of Austin.
978-1-965766-22-4 paper $24.95 6x9. 356 pp. Aviation. Memoir. Inspirational. October
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Little Sky Bear and the Dragon
Amy Jackson and Donna Paredes
Most children today will never see a truly dark sky. Light pollution obscures the celestial wonders that will rekindle that lost connection. Little Sky Bear and the Dragon inspired countless generations.
The story brings to life four constellations in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, telling a tale of friendship, wonder and the beauty of the cosmos. Little Sky Bear and the Dragon is the second book in the Night Sky series from the mother-daughter duo of Amy Jackson (Starry Sky Austin founder) and Donna Paredes. Richly illustrated and lovingly told, Little Sky Bear and the Dragon is a must-have for young dreamers, stargazers, and lovers of magical adventures.
Perfect for ages 6-10, this is an unforgettable story that will spark imagination, inspire exploration, and remind us all of the wonder waiting just beyond the glow of city lights.
AMY JACKSON is the director of Starry Sky Austin. Amy lives in Austin, Texas. DONNA PAREDES is Amy’s mother and an illustrator and artist. She lives in Brenham, Texas.
978-1-965766-20-0 hardcover $24.95 91/2x8. 36 pp. Young readers. Fiction. Science and Nature. August
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Any Moonwalker Can Tell You New and Selected Poems
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Reminiscing the Road
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The Innocent and Others
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Texas Women Are On the Money
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Gurdon Marion
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An examination copy will be sent on request to a professor considering a book for classroom adoption. The request must include the name of the course and its estimated enrollment. Terms: paperbacks are complimentary when the request is accompanied by payment of $6.00 to cover postage/handling. Hardcovers will be sent with an invoice; the invoice will be cancelled if the Marketing Department receives an order for ten or more copies. Otherwise the hardcover examination copy may be purchased or returned. Check or money orderBill my established account (payable to TAMU Press)(wholesalers, libraries, bookstores only)
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