This corner of Canaan : essays on Texas in honor of Randolph B. Campbell /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-, Torget, Andrew J., 1978-, Chipman, Donald E., McCaslin, Richard B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Teacher, mentor, friend: a reflection / Laura Lyons McLemore
  • Texas identity
  • Texas identity: alternatives to the terrible triplets / Walter Buenger
  • History, memory, and rebranding Texas as western for the 1936 centennial / Light Townsend Cummins
  • Texas before the Civil War
  • Jose Antonio Pichardo and the limits of Spanish Texas, 1803/1821 / Donald E. Chipman
  • Sam Houston, Indian agent / Carol A. Lipscomb
  • Stephen F. Austin's views on slavery in early Texas / Andrew J. Torget
  • Texas in Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Landholding in Brazos County, Texas: frontier, war, and Reconstruction / Carl H. Moneyhon
  • Spirits of disillusionment: soldiering on the Texas coast and the problem of Confederate nationalism / Andrew F. Lang
  • North Texans and Civil War amnesty: helpless instruments in the hands of rebellion? / Bradley R. Clampitt
  • Texas Reconstruction in popular memory: what really happened in Hill County in 1871 / Richard B. McCaslin
  • Texas and the new South
  • The roots of southern progressivism: Texas populists and the rise of a reform coalition in Milam County / Gregg Cantrell
  • African-American housing and health patterns in southwestern cities, 1865-1900 / Alwyn Barr
  • Populism and the poll tax in Cooke County, Texas / Mark Stanley
  • Texas and the twentieth century
  • Investing in urban: the Woman's Monday Club and the entrepreneurial elite of Corpus Christi, Texas / Jessica Brannon-Wranosky
  • Denton County, Texas, and the draft during the First World War / Gregory W. Ball
  • "Gente Decente": Tejanos Jovita González and Edmundo E. de Mireles / Harriett Denise Joseph, Alix Riviere, and Jordan Penner
  • National ideal meets local reality: grassroots war on poverty in Houston / Wesley G. Phelps
  • Contributors' biographies.