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The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for...

To most Americans, Hawaii means ukuleles and native dancers, Waikiki and Diamond Head. Hawaii is a romantic image learned from...

Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one...

Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy....

The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known...

Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this...

"In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the...

The valleys, mountains, and deserts of Utah have been home to native peoples for thousands of years. Like peoples around...

The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line “There are eight million...

When a small midwestern gallery is burgled, artworks by an American icon disappear into the international market for stolen art,...

The globalization of media industries that began during the 1980s and 1990s occurred at the same time as the establishment...

Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source...

This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history...

Imperial Texas examines the development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to...

To most people it probably seems that La Salle and his men, permanently fixed in the pantheon of explorers of...

Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter...

The single most important domestic source of oil and gas is managed by the Texas Railroad Commission. As a result,...

Story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that in 1958 took the lives of ninety-two children and...

Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the...

Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in...