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...

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

In the first detailed study of its kind, Col. (Ret.) Thomas T. “Ty” Smith, known for his extensiv...

The Texas Almanac is a complete reference book on all things Texan: History, Environment, Weather...

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...

The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force that can be be...

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

Fort Davis, one of the army's largest western posts, was built in the mid-1850s. Evacuated by the...

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

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 k...

In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernha...

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...

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

Features of The Texas Almanac 2014–2015

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

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 hist...

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 these new feature articles:

From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Te...

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...

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

With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin ...

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...

Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 1920–1999 tells the story of the Canadian Rive...

On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 contains twenty-n...

Gen. Vicente Filisola was second in command of the Mexican army in Texas during the Revolution. A...

Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas’s easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern to...

Abner Cook has long been acknowledged as the most important architect in antebellum Texas, but th...

A collection of letters that provides an account of the colonists' journey to the Rio Grande from...

Irish-born Thomas William ('Peg Leg') Ward ventured to Texas in 1835 to fight in the Texas Revolu...

The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as the Lone Star State’s landscape...

Features of The Texas Almanac 2014–2015

Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daugh...

Shortly before his fourteenth birthday, John Christopher Columbus Hill left home with his father ...

The McFaddin-Ward House, home to the prominent McFaddin family, was built in 1906 in the prestigi...

Organized in chronological chapters by the tenures of the seven directors, George Garrison to Ron...