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Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, which picks up just as the Democratic Party was poised for a bruising fight in the 1930 primary. Charting the governorships of Dan Moody, Ross Sterling, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson in her second term, and James V. Allred, this engrossing sequel takes its title from the notion that Texas politicians should gi...

White Metropolis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

White Metropolis

Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2007 From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, ...

Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug

In this meticulously researched window onto the decade of "prosperity, Prohibition, and prejudice," Norman D. Brown clearly portrays the forces within the state that gave it national importance.

Southern Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Southern Writers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-06-21
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  • Publisher: LSU Press

This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-...

Life Against Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Life Against Death

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.

Bootstrap Liberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Bootstrap Liberalism

Has Texas always been one of the United States’ most conservative states? The answer might surprise you. Bootstrap Liberalism offers a glimpse into the world of Depression-era Texas politics, revealing a partisan culture that was often far more ideologically nuanced and complex than meets the eye. The Lone Star State is often viewed as a bastion of conservative politics and rugged “bootstrap” individualism, but that narrative overlooks the fact that FDR’s New Deal was quite popular in Texas, much more so than previous histories of the era have suggested. While it is true that many Texas Democrats remained staunchly conservative during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, and it is a...

Norman R. Rich (1921–2020)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Norman R. Rich (1921–2020)

The late Norman Rich (1921-2020) was an internationally recognized scholar of European history who taught at Brown University and Michigan State University, among other places. Professor Rich’s life and career were unorthodox. He came from a working-class background in Cleveland, Ohio, but even as a child he traveled widely and was fluent in several languages thanks to the influence of his mother, who emigrated from Germany to North America in 1908. As a teenager, Norman was briefly educated in Switzerland and personally witnessed many of the events that informed World War II, including Mussolini’s declaration of the Second Roman Empire, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War, and the 193...

Edward Stanly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Edward Stanly

Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life.

Black Soldiers in Blue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

Black Soldiers in Blue

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Other essays explore the recruitment of black troops in the Mississippi Valley; the U.S. Colored Cavalry; the military leadership of Colonels Thomas...

This Astounding Close
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

This Astounding Close

This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place