History of Texas Methodism, 1900-1960
Title | History of Texas Methodism, 1900-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Olin Webster Nail |
Publisher | |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Methodist Church |
ISBN |
110 Years of Methodism
Title | 110 Years of Methodism PDF eBook |
Author | Mary McAllister Ingram |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The History of American Methodism
Title | The History of American Methodism PDF eBook |
Author | Emory Stevens Bucke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Methodism |
ISBN |
Black Texans
Title | Black Texans PDF eBook |
Author | Alwyn Barr |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780806128788 |
discusses each period of African-American history in terms of politics, violence, and legal status; labor and economic status; education; and social life. Black Texans includes the history of the buffalo soldiers and the cowboys on Texas cattle drives, along with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from Estevan the explorer through legislator Norris Wright Cuney and boxer Jack Johnson to state senator Barbara Jordan. Barr carries.
Methodist Union Catalog of History, Biography, Disciplines, and Hymnals
Title | Methodist Union Catalog of History, Biography, Disciplines, and Hymnals PDF eBook |
Author | Association of Methodist Historical Societies |
Publisher | [Lake Junaluska, N.C.] : Association of Methodist Historical Societies |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
ISBN |
Texas Women
Title | Texas Women PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Hayes Turner |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820347205 |
"This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a "unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--
Rock Beneath the Sand
Title | Rock Beneath the Sand PDF eBook |
Author | Lois E. Myers |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781585442508 |
Given in memory of Jameson Garrett Brown by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund.