The House Will Come to Order

Patrick L Cox, Michael Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-h... Lees meer

From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi

Ambassador Robert Krueger, Kathleen Tobin Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring ... Lees meer

Belo

Judith Garrett Segura

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News , the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, o... Lees meer

Front Row Seat

Eric Draper

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• America's forty-third president, George W. Bush, presided over eight of the most dramatic years in recent history, from the 9/11 attacks early in his ... Lees meer

Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator

Patrick L Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Semifinalist, 22nd Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2002 Finalist, Spur Award in western nonfiction biography, Western Writers of America, 2002 Re... Lees meer

Comfort and Glory

Katherine Jean Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illumina... Lees meer

Texas Furniture, Volume Two

Lonn Taylor, David B Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima ... Lees meer

Danger Pay

Carol Spencer Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• "You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and o... Lees meer

The First Texas News Barons

Patrick L Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as wel... Lees meer

Watching Television Come of Age

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Providing video companionship for isolated housewives, afternoon babysitting for children, and nonstop evening entertainment for the whole family, tel... Lees meer

Once Upon a Time in Texas

David Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Once upon a time in Texas...there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant and more tolerable. David Richa... Lees meer

The French in Texas

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• 2005 -- San Antonio Conservation Society Citation Original articles that explore the French presence and influence on Texas history, arts, education, ... Lees meer

Kindler of Souls

Rabbi Henry Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this co... Lees meer

Russell Lee Photographs

Russell Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• Russell Lee is widely acclaimed as one of the most outstanding documentary photographers of the twentieth century. His images of American life during ... Lees meer

Alexander Watkins Terrell

Lewis L Gould

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Alexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging fro... Lees meer

The Texas Book Two

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• In every corner of the sprawling enterprise that is the University of Texas at Austin, you will find teaching, research, artistic creation, and sports... Lees meer

Harry Reasoner

Douglass K Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening news... Lees meer

The Hogg Family and Houston

Kate Sayen Kirkland

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike... Lees meer

Houston on the Move

Steven R Strom

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• Houston completely transformed itself during the twentieth century, burgeoning from a regional hub into a world-class international powerhouse. This r... Lees meer

Picturing Texas Politics

Chuck Bailey, Patrick L Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state's founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Per... Lees meer

Texas Furniture, Volume One

Lonn Taylor, David B Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima ... Lees meer

Profiles in Power

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Profiles in Power offers concise biographies of fourteen twentieth-century Texans who wielded significant political power and influence in Washington,... Lees meer

The Texas Book

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first class," as mandated in the... Lees meer

Leavin' a Testimony

Patsy Cravens

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agra... Lees meer