Spanish Water, Anglo Water

Charles R Porter

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 113
• In 1718, the Spanish settled San Antonio, partly because of its prolific and breathtaking springs-at that time, one of the largest natural spring syst... Lees meer

Women and the Creation of Urban Life

Elizabeth York Enstam

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 72
• Throughout the history of Dallas, women have worked both alongside and apart from the men now remembered as the city's founders and builders. In truth... Lees meer

Damming the Colorado

John A Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 35
• Before there was a Lower Colorado River Authority, the Colorado River cut across Central Texas free and unfettered by artificial structures. But the r... Lees meer

Second Fatherland

Max Amadeus Paulus Krueger

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 4
• Max Krueger came to Texas from Germany in 1868, a penniless, delicate boy of sixteen. By the time he wrote his memoirs at the age of seventy-four, he ... Lees meer

Texans and War

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 116
• Beginning with tribal wars among Native Americans before Europeans settled Texas and continuing through the Civil War, the soil of what would become t... Lees meer

To Get a Better School System

Gene B Preuss

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 111
• In 1949, as postwar Texas was steadily becoming more urban and calls for education reform were gathering strength throughout the state and nation, Sta... Lees meer

Black Women in Texas History

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 10
• Though often consigned to the footnotes of history, African American women are a significant part of the rich, multiethnic heritage of Texas and the U... Lees meer

Seeking Inalienable Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 112
• Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights h... Lees meer

The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle

Robert S Weddle

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 88
• Robert Cavelier de La Salle: daring explorer, empire builder, shaper of history--and shameless schemer who abused his followers and deceived his king.... Lees meer

The Ship That Would Not Die

Stephen Curley

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 117
• Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II--and one of the last five left afloat by war's end--the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and... Lees meer

Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990

Dwight D Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 102
• In Houston, as in the rest of the American South up until the 1950s, the police force reflected and enforced the segregation of the larger society. Wh... Lees meer

Missionary Bishop

Patrick Foley

• Hardcover | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover) | nr. 118
• In 1822 a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic... Lees meer