Intorduction
Editors’ Preface - Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman,
and Andrew J. Torget
Teacher, Mentor, Friend: A Reflection - Laura Lyons McLemore
Part I: Texas Identity
Chapter 1. Texas Identity: Alternatives to the Terrible Triplets - Walter L. Buenger
Chapter 2. History, Memory, and Rebranding Texas as Western for the 1936 Centennial - Light Townsend Cummins
Part II: Texas Before the Civil War
Chapter 3. José Antonio Pichardo and the Limits of Spanish Texas, 1803–1821 - Donald E. Chipman
Chapter 4. Sam Houston, Indian Agent - Carol A. Lipscomb
Chapter 5. Stephen F. Austin’s Views on Slavery in Early Texas - Andrew J. Torget
Part III: Texas in Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 6. Landholding in Brazos County, Texas: Frontier, War, and Reconstruction - Carl H. Moneyhon
Chapter 7. Soldiering on the Texas Coast and the Problem of Confederate Nationalism - Andrew F. Lang
Chapter 8. North Texans and Civil War Amnesty: Helpless Instruments in the Hands of Rebellion? Bradley R. Clampitt
Chapter 9. Texas Reconstruction in Popular Memory: What Really Happened in Hill County in 1871 - Richard B. McCaslin
Part IV: Texas and the New South
Chapter 10. The Roots of Southern Progressivism:Texas Populists and the Rise of a Reform Coalition in Milam County - Gregg Cantrell
Chapter 11. African-American Housing and Health Patterns in Southwestern Cities, 1865–1900 - Alwyn Barr
Chapter 12. Populism and the Poll Tax in Cooke County, Texas - Mark Stanley
Part V: Texas and the Twentieth Century
Chapter 13. Investing in Urban: The Woman’s Monday Club and the Entrepreneurial Elite of Corpus Christi, Texas - Jessica Brannon- Wranosky
Chapter 14. Denton County, Texas, and the Draft During the First World War - Gregory W. Ball
Chapter 15. “Gente Decente”: Tejanos Jovita González and Edmundo E. Mireles - Harriett Denise Joseph, Alix Riviere, and Jordan Penner
Chapter 16. National Ideal Meets Local Reality: The Grassroots War on Poverty in Houston - Wesley G. Phelps
Contributors’ Biographies
Index