Bücher der Reihe Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce

Offers insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources - including thousands of letters and unpublished journals, this title affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants' own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home.

The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism.