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Presents the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of money to buy military horses. Forty-four years later, when Mahon retired as Chairman of that same committee, the committee was debating funds to purchase a bomber capable of traveling at 2,000 miles an hour.

Threaded through the complicated and fascinating history of US ready-towear fashion are more than eighty attempts to legislate for design protection, and countless efforts to stymie piracy. The authors of this volume analyse legal and apparel industry documents; governmental reports; and their own primary research to shed light on arguments both for and against design piracy.

In 2007, Ruben Molina published the first-ever history of Mexican-American soul and R&B music in his book, Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of an American Culture. Ten years later, Chicano Soul remains an important and oft-referenced study of this vital but often overlooked chapter of the greater American musical experience.

In 2008, Texas historian Nancy Draves happened upon an amazing find up for public auction: the 1861 diary of Kitty Anderson, the daughter of prominent San Antonio resident and vocal Union Army supporter Colonel Charles Anderson. Kitty's diary chronicles the Anderson family's tumultuous experience during the early years of the Civil War. Following the vote for Texas's secession and the surrender of San Antonio's federal garrison, Col. Anderson attempted to flee, only to be arrested by Confederate Texas soldiers. Kitty and the family fled to Matamoros via Brownsville and boarded a ship; Col. Anderson escapedfrom custody and made his way across the Rio Grande and into Monterrey, later reuniting with the family in Vera Cruz. Kitty Anderson's diary is unique not only for chronicling her trials and observations servations during the harrowing days between September 29 and November 30, 1861-- it also contains a later account written by Kitty describing her father's escape from the Confederates. The strength of this appended text, along with the first-person diary itself, lies in Kitty's gifted prose and her willingness to catalogue all her experiences, including the names of those she encountered, the dates, and the places. A Promise Fulfilled is an important artifact of Civil War Texas and illuminates the diversity of viewpoints held by Texans on the issues of secession, slavery, and what it truly meant to be a patriot. Nancy Draves taught high school in San Antonio for twenty years and still lives there. This is her first book.

Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of awoman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.

At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft got a telephoned offer to play for a semipro baseball club he'd never heard of. When he reported for tryout he discovered he'd been recruited for the West Texas Colored League. Out of his two seasons with the Stars comes an unlikely story of respect, character, humour, and ultimately friendship.

Texas was the darkest corner of the Old South, too remote and violent for even the bravest abolitionists. On July 8, 1860, Dallas, Texas burned. Three slaves were accused of arson and hanged without a trial. Today, most historians attribute the fire to carelessness. Silent We Stood weaves the tale of a small band of abolitionists working in secrecy within Dallas's close-knit society.

From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains - the problem of too much water - Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. Using Plains Indian winter counts, postcards, photographs, newspaper accounts, government records, and more, this volume chronicles the river's natural and human history to the present day.

Mirabeau Lamar seeks nothing less than a Texas empire that will dominate the North American continent. Brave exploits at the Battle of San Jacinto bring him rank, power, and prestige, which by 1838 propel him to the presidency of the young Republic of Texas and put him in position to achieve his dream.

Interned in a camp in the Texas panhandle, more than 3,000 Italian POWs spent the last years of World War II an ocean away from their family and friends. A handful of men in camp were artists. In exchange for a home-cooked, the artists decorated the local church with murals. This story of courage and kindliness is as enduring as the artwork that still graces the church in a tiny Texas town.

By April 1945, Allied troops of both America and the Soviet Union had established control over Germany and German-occupied Poland. General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the liberation of the concentration camps. The liberating soldiers were shocked beyond imagination at what they saw in these camps. Here, twenty-one Texas Liberators speak compellingly in their own words.

Traces football's passing game from its inception to the present, telling the tale through the stories of the quarterbacks whose arms carried (and threw) the changes forward. Lew Freedman relies especially on the biography of "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh, who hailed from Sweetwater, Texas, as a framework.

A story of violence and nostalgia, the inextricable connections between identity and place, narrated by a woman who grew up in the comforting cultural geography of Lincoln, Nebraska, a town that made her feel so safe she became almost incapable of comprehending danger.

In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. From the Lone Star Steel strike, the KKK, and the "Dixie Mafia" to problems of drug-running and illegal immigration, Arthur Hill's life as a Texas ranger illuminates both the present and the past.

The redeeming power of love, amid the causes and causalties of violence

Features Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner. Set in the Texas oil patch, this book tells her story, which not only presents the viewpoint of a young girl who comes of age in the shadow of the derricks but also in the currency of her creators sensitivity to the natural world and environmental issues.

It's 1955 and fourteen-year-old Emily Winter's promising start at Bromley, a posh, academically-challenging Manhattan girls' school, threatens to turn sour when her new friend Phoebe Barrett joins an anti-Semitic club founded by the popular and snobby Cressida Whitcroft. In a story about the search for identity and the triumph of friendship over bigotry, Emily discovers a knack for leadership.

During wartime, paranoia, gossip, and rumor become accepted forms of behavior and dominant literary tropes. This title examines the impact of war hysteria on definitions of sanity and on standards of behavior during World War I.

"A political biography of Nebraska state senator Ernest (Ernie) Chambers, investigating the tumultuous local and national political climate for African Americans from the late twentieth century to today"--Provided by publisher.

A short literary guide to one of the US's greatest African American dramatists, August Wilson's Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays will serve a wide range of students, teachers, theatre professionals, and theatre audiences. The book introduces the ten-play cycle - one for each decade of the twentieth century as a whole, explaining Wilson's goals as a playwright.

This book is by and about the American liberators of Dachau, who have since discovered that no one who was involved in any capacity can ever be truly free of the past that was Dachau. In the most complete eyewitness account ever available, editor Sam Dann weaves their stories together with official reports, other documents, and the reminiscences of survivors.