Texas Almanac 2026-2027

Texas Almanac 2026-2027

In 1946 historian William Ransom Hogan, then a professor at the University of Oklahoma, published...

Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic ...

Women have long made significant contributions to Texas history. Only in recent years, however, h...

The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. P...

Today Fort Lancaster sits as a ghostly ruin in west Texas, far removed from any major highway. Ho...

Charles M. Neal Jr takes the reader back to the Texas frontier during the years of the Civil War ...

A tale of the Mexican army's misfortunes in the aptly named ''Sea of Mud,'' where more than 2,500...

Studies black and white workers' consciousness and how the conflicts between race and class were ...

This engaging study of women in early Texas fills an important gap in the history of the state. F...

Tejano Patriot: The Revolutionary Life of José Francisco Ruiz, 1783-1840

'A classic work in Texas military, The Old Army in Texas is now available in paperback with a new...

Civil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil Wa...

Dallas first grabbed the national attention in 1839 when it hosted the Texas Centennial Expositio...

For more than five years award-winning photographer Geoff Winningham explored and photographed Bu...

This beautifully illustrated biography of S. Seymour Thomas is the compelling tale of a young boy...

Presents the story of Civil War monuments in Texas. This book explores Texans' motivations for er...

Fort Worth has been called ''the City Where the West Begins,'' ''Cowtown,'' and the silent partne...

Written for both the specialist and the casual reader, Texas and the Mexican War discusses the pi...

This enormous catalogue contains documentation on more than 3,900 Texas imprints produced between...

'Those of us who knew how to swim crossed to the other bank. But a number of our company did not ...

Delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas's most extraordinarily families and tells the...

This classic interpretive study examines the Texas Revolution against the background of political...

In late 1833 Mexico began to have serious fears that its northeastern territory in Texas would be...

Talks about the Texas history and is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary connections between...

Winner of seven awards, El Llano Estacado reveals the historical heart of one of the world's uniq...

José Antonio Navarro

The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Ma...

Features of The Texas Almanac 2014-2015 include: an article on Texas art and artists by Houston b...

In 1946, Williamson County, Texas, was profoundly rural. Reflecting the Democratic Party represen...

How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWO...

The contributions and influences of Mexican Americans in Texas history have been many and signifi...

Many will remember Texas History Movies, a cartoon booklet that was distributed to Texas history ...

Land Is the Cry! is the fascinating story of Warren Ferris, a New York Yankee who deserves to be ...

The Texas Almanac 2016-2017 includes new feature articles, such as a history of Texas' various fo...

Original version: Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1995.

In Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878, author Lin...

Famed for his bluebonnet landscapes, San Antonio native Julian Onderdonk may be the most well-kno...

One of Texas's leading military historians, has delved deep into the records of the US Army to pr...

Scion of one of San Antonio's leading early families, Juan Nepomuceno Seguín grew up in a Texas b...

McKinney Falls State Park, across the Colorado River from Austin, is the 672-acre center of a 40,...

Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic

Presents a general history of San Antonio. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from ...

In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the ...

First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State ...

The Old Stone Fort at Nacogdoches, built in 1779 and torn down in 1902, began as a trading center...

High school football is one of the identifying institutions of twentieth-century Texas. Many cons...