Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups...
During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds ...
Life of Billy Dixon is a compelling narrative of the 'wild, free life' on the Great Plains fronti...
The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains b...
As many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the b...
The first authentic biography of one of the most famous of the nineteenth century Texas Rangers-C...
Early September 1862...General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac Ri...
History does not simply happen, most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assidu...
Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war...
Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsvil...
Naturally self-effacing and deferential, Captain John ReynoldsHughes is not as famous today as hi...
The history of Texas is usually told in terms of its 'giants' such as Sam Houston and Stephen F. ...