Category: Texas

  • A Heritage Celebration: Event recognizes both Hispanic and Native American roots with symposium and several performances San Marcos Daily Record San Marcos, Texas 2011-08-12 San Marcos — San Marcos will experience a unique, two-in-one heritage celebration in a combination of two nationally recognized heritage months — Hispanic and Native American — on Saturday, Oct. 1…

  • The Orange County War of 1856 W. T. Block, (1920-2007) 1979 Reprinted from W. T. Block, “Meanest Town on The Coast,” Old West, Winter, 1979, pp. 10ff. Sources: Galveston Weekly News and Tri-Weekly News, June 1 to July 15, 1856. The issue of July 15 of Tri-Weekly News contains a full, 8-column page of the…

  • Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…

  • Yellow Rose of Texas The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association 2012-01-21 Jeffrey D. Dunn James Lutzweiler “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” one of the iconic songs of modern Texas and a popular traditional American tune, has experienced several transformations of its lyrics and periodic revivals in popularity since its appearance in the…

  • Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans University of Texas Press 2001 389 pages 6 x 9 in., 50 b&w illus., 4 maps Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-292-75254-2 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropolgy University of Texas, Austin The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian,…

  • The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.

  • Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (review) Southwestern Historical Quarterly Volume 115, Number 2, October 2011 E-ISSN: 1558-9560 Print ISSN: 0038-478X pages 214-215 William M. Clements, Professor of English Arkansas State University Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico, Norman: Oklahoma University Press,…

  • The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 2 (September 2011) pages 404-419 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar338 Benjamin H. Johnson, Associate Professor of Global Studies and History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee In the early twentieth century, a number of Latin American intellectuals embraced racial fusion…