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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.

In 1935, Elena Zamora O'Shea told the story of the open country of South Texas from the perspective of an ancient mesquite tree. She covers the area's political and ethnographic history, with details of daily life such as songs, plants and folk medicines, food and recipes, and ranch vocabulary.

In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder.

In February 1945, some 80,000 US Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. At the cost of 28,000 American casualties, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions dutifully conquered this desolate piece of hell. Captain Robert S. Burrell masterfully reconsiders the costs of taking Iwo Jima and its role in the war effort.

Drawing on rare US Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, records released since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the memories of airlift veterans themselves, Roger G. Miller provides an original study of the Berlin Airlift.

A thoughtful retrospective of America's wars of the 20th century, this text examines the process of going to war and seeks patterns showing how and why the nation becomes involved in hostilities.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally. This title presents an account of the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years.

After WWII, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mexico took on new strategic value. Shell Oil Company pioneered many of the early moves offshore. This book presents the history of Shell Oil, drawing on interviews with Shell retirees and other sources.

A look into the life of a big-time football player, this book offers first-hand glimpses of the personalities and playing (or coaching) styles of many celebrated stars of college football and the NFL. This book is an engaging story of growing up in a refugee family, of big-time football, and of human struggle and success.

This volume traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to "Mexicanize" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of the most encompassing bilingual education law in the state's history.

Here, David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from 12000 years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining Indian interactions - both peaceful and violent - with Europeans, Mexicans, Texans and Americans.

This is an account of the failed expedition of the buffalo soldiers in 1877. Paul H. Carlson has mined courts-martial records, memories of a white boy who rode with the Indians and other sources to provide a nuanced view of soldiers, hunters, settlers and Indians on the Staked Plains.

The Comanches were long portayed as marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty. In this book, Gerald Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and behaviour among the Comanches.

A Polish Son in the Motherland is a search for roots and for reasons why one family's ties were severed. It reveals what half a century of communism did to Poland and how the residue of World War II lingers. The story becomes an investigation into the relationship between mothers and the legacy they give their sons.

Recounts the last high-casualty US action in the Vietnam War. This work presents a look at soldiers who performed in exemplary fashion under terrible circumstances.

Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His letters from the Pacific theatre - especially from Guadalcanal, Angaur, and Saipan - capture the everyday life of a soldier physician.

Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer is known as the 'father of Texas botany'. His collections are credited with helping botanists to understand the nature and significance of the diversity of plants in the state. John Williams offers the first English translation of his essays, providing valuable insight into the natural and cultural history of Texas.

Drawing on extensive archival work as well as the existing secondary literature, Sterling Evans has woven an intricate story that will change our understanding of the complex, transnational history of the North American continent.

Nostalgia, wonderment, and a healthy and imaginative provincialism colour the pages of this book. The vibrantly concrete details of daily existence in a bygone time in a remote and desolate area of Texas are startlingly juxtaposed with philosophical musings about the limitations all of us face in comprehending even that little bit of life we live.