Any of the ingredients for understanding Texas history are in this useful guide. Texas Journal
Introduction
Part One: The Historical Literature
Part Two: Archives in Texas
Appendix I: Chronology of Texas History
Appendix II: Historical Organizations in Texas
Index
About the Contributors
LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS is the Guy M. Bryan, Jr., Professor of
American History at Austin College, Sherman, Texas.
ALVIN R. BAILEY, JR., is the Director of the Denison Public
Library, Denison, Texas.
?For students of Texas history, this new book, part of the
Reference Guides to State History and Research series published by
Greenwood Press, provides a valuable overview of historical writing
in the Lone Star state. . . The reader gains much information about
what authors, subjects, and books are deemed critical to
understanding Texas history. any of the ingredients for
understanding Texas history are in this useful guide.?-Texas
Journal
?Potential purchasers may be misled by this work's title into
thinking it is a bibliography. Its first section consists of 11
historiographic essays on specific time periods in Texas history
(from colonial rule under Spain and Mexico through the contemporary
era) and subject essays that treat blacks, native Americans,
Mexican-Americans, and women in Texas history. The second section
considers the holdings of 15 major Texas archival repositories at
the federal, state, municipal, and university level. These essays,
written by administrators of archives, provide, with one exception,
general descriptions of the holdings of each repository,
highlighting major collections and research strengths. Bailey adds
summary information about 24 additional repositories in the state.
The subject essays make a significant contribution, and the
description of archives bring together the most comprehensive
holdings information available on Texas repositories.?-Choice
"For students of Texas history, this new book, part of the
Reference Guides to State History and Research series published by
Greenwood Press, provides a valuable overview of historical writing
in the Lone Star state. . . The reader gains much information about
what authors, subjects, and books are deemed critical to
understanding Texas history. any of the ingredients for
understanding Texas history are in this useful guide."-Texas
Journal
"Potential purchasers may be misled by this work's title into
thinking it is a bibliography. Its first section consists of 11
historiographic essays on specific time periods in Texas history
(from colonial rule under Spain and Mexico through the contemporary
era) and subject essays that treat blacks, native Americans,
Mexican-Americans, and women in Texas history. The second section
considers the holdings of 15 major Texas archival repositories at
the federal, state, municipal, and university level. These essays,
written by administrators of archives, provide, with one exception,
general descriptions of the holdings of each repository,
highlighting major collections and research strengths. Bailey adds
summary information about 24 additional repositories in the state.
The subject essays make a significant contribution, and the
description of archives bring together the most comprehensive
holdings information available on Texas repositories."-Choice
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