If you’re in search of strong secondary source material on Texas, the list below will help get you started. This is just a sample of the many distinctive books and websites available on the history and cultures of the Lone Star State.
Books
- Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. By Cynthia Orozco
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022) - Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. By David Montejano
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987) - Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain. By Bradley Folsom
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) - The Art of Texas: 250 Years. By Ron Tyler
(College Station: Texas Christian University Press, 2019) - Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas. By Stephen Harrigan
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019) - Black Texans. By Alwyn Barr
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) - Black Women in Texas History. By Bruce Glasrud and Merline Pitre
(College Station: A & M University Press, 2008) - Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park. By Lewis F. Fisher
(San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2022) - The Comanche Empire. By Pekka Hamalainen
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) - Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era. By Allison F. Schottenstein
(Denton: University of Texas Press, 2021) - The Garden of Eden: The Story of a Freedmen’s Community in Texas. By Drew Sanders
(Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2015) - Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. By Randolph B Campbell
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) - Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution. By Glen Sample Ely
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) - Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. By Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2022) - The People’s Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism. By Gregg Cantrell
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020) - The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. By Walter L Buenger
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001) - Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. By Gabriela González.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) - Sam Houston. By James Haley
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004) - Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. By Andrew J. Torget
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015) - Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution. By James Crisp
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) - Spanish Texas, 1519-1821. By Donald E Chipman
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992) - Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) - Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts. By Teresa Palomo Acosta
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2021) - Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. Edited by Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015) - Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities. Edited by Deborah M Liles and Cecila Gutierrez Venable
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019) - The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas. By Carl H. Moneyhon
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2021) - Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas. By Sam W. Haynes
(New York: Basic Books, 2022) - War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830-1880. By Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga
(Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) - West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement.By Char Miller
(San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2021) - Women and the Texas Revolution. By Mary L. Scheer
(College Station: University of North Texas Press, 2012) - Women in Texas History. By Angela Boswell
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018)
Texas-Specific Digital Resources
- Portal to Texas History
Known for primary documents, but features many secondary sources as well - Texas Beyond History
The virtual museum of Texas cultural heritage - Texas Genweb Project
Assorted historic publications are embedded in these county-based volunteer pages - Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites Atlas
If it has a historical marker, you’ll find the text here - Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas Online
Scholarly articles on all aspects of Texas history
Broad Digital Resources with Texas Material
- Google Books
When looking for a specific title, you may find a preview here - Internet Archive
You might find “it” digitized here - JSTOR
Index and database of scholarly articles which may be available for free through your local public or academic library - TexShare Databases
Primary and secondary sources which may be available for free through your local public or academic library - WorldCat
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