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Joe Nick Patoski
Breaking Through

Engineering has been at the heart of Rice University since it broke ground more than a century ago. Throughout the decades, Rice engineers have emerged as leaders who shape society both locally and global…

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Dan Phillips,
Choreographing a House

Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities

Anyone who has ever driven into Huntsville, Texas, from the west on US Highway 190 has glimpsed the now-famous "Cowboy Boot House": a fully functional 700-square-foot, two-bedroom home that feat…

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Richard Ribb
J. T. Canales and the Texas Rangers

In 1919, José Tomás Canales, South Texas patrón and state representative, filed legislation to reform the Texas Rangers that spawned two weeks of hearings in the state capitol. Only Canales could have bro…

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Jon Roberts
The Cost of Cool

The city of Austin consistently leads lists of fastest-growing and most-desirable places to live---a simultaneous source of pride and anxiety for residents. In The Cost of Cool: Austin's Tech Growth and t…

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Mark Santiago
Hugo O'Conor

Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest

Hugo O'Conor: A Shadow of Ireland in New Spain presents a comprehensive biography of Hugo O'Conor (1734--1779), the first Commandant Inspector of the Interior Provinces of New Spain. Demonstrating the rem…

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Tamara Saviano
Poets and Dreamers

"Part memoir, part oral history, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music traces Tamara Saviano's remarkable journey through the rise of the Americana music genre. Spanning more than three deca…

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Norma Schreiner
Eight Miles from the Front Gate

"It was the summer of 1977, and I was at the Texas Capitol researching voting patterns for the political campaign I was working for," writes author Norma Schreiner as she describes her meeting w…

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John F Shortal
A Search for Strategy

A hallmark of history surrounding Winston Churchill and World War II is that the British-American alliance comprised a "special relationship" of military, political, social, and cultural connect…

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Thad Sitton, Cynthia Nesser, Adrian F van Dellen
A Resurrection of Springs

"The Krause Ranch is not a normal Hill Country landscape -- it has bottomless holes, dinosaur tracks, high limestone river cliffs where golden eagles nest, and occasional visits by pumas and black be…

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Dave South
You Saw Me on the Radio

For forty-eight years, Dave South was the radio voice of Southwest Conference and Texas A&M University football, basketball, and baseball. Along the way, he amassed a treasure trove of unforgettable s…

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Paul N Spellman
Spindletop Boom Days

Spindletop. The word conjures images of Texas oil: roustabouts, roughnecks, oil barons, and endless rows of wooden derricks. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 revolutionized the oil and drilling …

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Edward M. Young
Aviation As a Business

Centennial of Flight Series

Entrepreneurship in aviation took flight during the 1920s, though at the beginning of the decade it was struggling for survival. After World War I, the market was oversaturated with war surplus airplanes,…

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Dan Young,
When the Bosque Ran Clear

When the Bosque Ran Clear: Life Along the River from Prehistory to the Civil War presents a history of early people and their environments along the Bosque River valley in North Central Texas. Spanning fr…

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Animals in Classic American Poetry

"The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired some of America's bes…

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Captain Drew's World

From 1877 to 1889, as Captain John H. Drew plied the world's oceans aboard the full-rigged ship Sea Witch of Boston, he wrote lengthy dispatches to the Boston Journal. He was a man of action and intellect…

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Joy to the World

"The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows," Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artist's statement. Represented for many years by the re…

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Justice on "the Hill"

Afro-Texans

Prairie View A&M University is more than Texas's oldest public historically Black university---it is a crucible of political struggle and social transformation. Since its founding in 1876 on the groun…

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Napako, Our Journey

Will and Pamela Nelson Harte Series on Water and the Environment

Napakō, the Coahuiltecan word for "our journey," is the captivating and authentic Indigenous creation story of how people came to be on Mother Earth. Napakō, Our Journey: The Coahuiltecan Creati…

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The Hill We Climbed

Prairie View a&M University Series

Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an "institution of the first class&…

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We Are Nature Defending Itself

In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging w…

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