Coffey delivers a clear and riveting evaluation of Confederate General John Bell Hood's service i...

General Maxey, dignified, articulate, and confident, arrives in Indian Territory in 1863 to assum...

July 1864. Grant's siege of Petersburg is at a standstill. A Federal regiment made up mostly of P...

The editor of the papers of John C. Calhoun and biographer of James Johnston Pettigrew focuses hi...

The Civil War continues to fascinate historians and general readers. Contemporary Civil War schol...

Buoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previou...

Contains twelve articles which depict the basic themes and topics of the black American experienc...

The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some ...

A Civil War hero, victorious Indian fighter and eventual madman, General Ranald S. Mackenzie's fa...

Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups...

The lonely chimneys of Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County have given many visitors silent testimon...

Naturally self-effacing and deferential, Captain John ReynoldsHughes is not as famous today as hi...

In the fall of 1864 after his triumphant capture of Atlanta, Union Gen. William T. Sherman mobili...

Early 1862, Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis drive Confederate forces led by Bri...

Admiral David Farragut eyed a potentially lethal minefield guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, A...

The outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914 surprised Americans. Although most hoped to a...

Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, b...

Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and...

In 1940, Abilene, Texas was just an overgrown country town of some 25,000 souls. World War II wro...

Early September 1862...General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac Rive...

History does not simply happen, most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assidu...

The first authentic biography of one of the most famous of the nineteenth century Texas Rangers-C...

In The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I, Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorful p...

In a remote corner of West Texas in 1942, the dreaded western diamondback rattlesnake was awarded...

The Era of Sam Bass, John Wesley Hardin, King Fisher and the Sutton-Taylor Feud provides the fram...

Designed for those beginning to cultivate an interest in the Civil War, enthusiasts and scholars ...

Misdeeds of early 20th-century bank and train robbers. Now a major motion picture starring Matthe...

Designed for those beginning to cultivate an interest in the Civil War, enthusiasts and scholars ...

The West Texas frontier-the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caproc...

Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly-but probably no...

The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains b...

As many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the b...

The longest field goal in the history of football was kicked in Texas. But did you know it was lo...

The history of Texas is usually told in terms of its 'giants' such as Sam Houston and Stephen F. ...

During the summer of 1863, Federal Forces scored major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, tur...

In 1867 the New York Times wrote that 'in cunning or native diplomacy Satanta has no equal in bol...

March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in...

Comprises a description of a soldier's life in the ranks of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Ninet...

Woodworth presents a brief, fast-moving, and colorful account of the Battle of Chickamauga, one o...

The Road to Dr Pepper, TexasThe Story of Dublin Dr Pepper The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas is the s...

Coach Emory Bellard spent a remarkable 43-year football coaching career at both the high school a...

Texas Rangers had patrolled on horseback since the early days of the Republic. Texas military her...

Iowa Wesleyan College was looking to snap a 100-year tradition of gridiron mediocrity when it hir...

Life of Billy Dixon is a compelling narrative of the 'wild, free life' on the Great Plains fronti...

Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war...

Texas 'a whole other country'-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State a...

Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsvil...

Written by the author who witnessed or participated in a string of important events that shaped A...