About this episode
If you listened to our six-part series on turning-point documents in Texas history, Gene and Scott now lay out a listener-friendly reading list with suggestions on what to pick up when you’re ready for deeper analysis and debate.
If you're looking to build your Texas history bookshelf, this episode is for you. We have a list of the books we discuss in the links below, but this is just the starting place. Other books by these authors are also worth reading, and exploring.
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Books:
Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise Joseph, Spanish Texas, 1519 - 1821, Revised
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Alex Krieger, We Came Barefoot, Naked and Barefoot, The Journey of Cabeza Devaca across North America
Andrés Reséndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Stephen L. Hardin, Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution
Paul D. Lack, The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836
Sam W. Haynes, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas
H. W. Brands, Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas
Andrew Torget's Seeds of Empire, Cotton Slavery and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands
Greg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
James Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Carl Moneyhon, Texas After the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction
Randolph B. Campbell, Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865 to 1880.
James Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas
Barry Crouch, The Freedmen's Bureau in Black Texas
Greg Cantrell, Feeding The Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850 - 1918
Lewis Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era
Alwwn Barr, Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876 to 1906
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