Texas History & Figures

Updated June 9, 2026
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Whiskey river (take my mind) the true story of Texas honky-tonk
Bush, Johnny.
Ebook
"Fans of live music will get a kick out of" this Texas Country Music Hall of Famer's "fond but brutally honest memories, playing gigs with Willie Nelson" ( Publishers Weekly).   When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene...
The crossing El Paso, the Southwest, and America's forgotten origin story
Parker, Richard (Journalist)
Paper Book
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North America, centuries-long hub of immigration, and underappreciated modern blueprint...
Beyond the Alamo forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Ramos, Raúl A.
Ebook
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos...
This time together laughter and reflection
Burnett, Carol.
Paper Book
THIS TIME TOGETHER is 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible.   Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America.The Carol Burnett Showwas seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in...
Passionate nation the epic history of Texas
Haley, James L.
Paper Book
Texas has become the most American of all the states. Texas's politics has taken over in Washington, and Texas's passionate sense of itself as a nation is echoed by the fervent patriotism of tens of millions of Americans. Texas is also our most outsized hodgepodge -- of Latino, black, white, Asian;...
Big wonderful thing a history of Texas
Harrigan, Stephen, 1948- author.
Ebook
2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize 2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers' League of Texas 2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of...

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