Texas history books

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Texas history books by UNT history faculty since 1987

• Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas by Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell (Southern Methodist University Press, 1987)
• An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 by Randolph B. Campbell (Louisiana State University Press, 1991)
• Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 by Donald E. Chipman (University of Texas Press, 1992)
• Sam Houston and the American Southwest by Randolph B. Campbell (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993; second edition, Longman Publishers, 2001; third edition, Longman, 2007)
• Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862 by Richard B. McCaslin (Louisiana State University Press, 1994)
• The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854 by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 1995)
• The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 1996)
• The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863 by Richard Lowe (Ryan Place Publishers, 1996; reprinted, McWhiney Foundation Press, 1998)
• Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 by Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880 by Randolph B. Campbell (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)
• Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas by Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph (University of Texas Press, 1999)
• A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War: The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates edited by Richard Lowe (Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
• Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst by Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (University of Texas Press, 2000)
• Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930 by Roberto R. Calderón (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)
• The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845 by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)
• Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas by Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph (University of Texas Press, 2001)
• Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State by Randolph B. Campbell (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle Trip on the Southwestern Frontier by Frederick Law Olmsted, edited by Randolph B. Campbell (The Library of Texas. Degolyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Southern Methodist University, 2004)
• From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 by F. Todd Smith (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
• Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi by Richard Lowe (Louisiana State University Press, 2006)
• At the Heart of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997 by Richard B. McCaslin (Texas State Historical Association, 2007)
• Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Texas A&M University Press, 2007)
• Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier by F. Todd Smith and H. Sophie Burton (Texas A&M University Press, 2008)