Author: Texas. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The State Library and Archives of Texas
Author: David B. GracyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029272201X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to deliver the essential, nonpartisan library and archival functions of government within a political environment in which legislators and governors usually agreed that libraries and archives were good and needed—but they disagreed about whatever expenditure was being proposed at the moment. Gracy recounts the stories of persevering, sometimes controversial state librarians and archivists, and commission members, including Ernest Winkler, Elizabeth West (the first female agency head in Texas government), Fannie Wilcox, Virginia Gambrell, and Louis Kemp, who worked to provide Texans the vital services of the state library and archives—developing public library service statewide, maintaining state and federal records for use by the public and lawmakers, running summer reading programs for children, providing services for the visually impaired, and preserving the historically significant records of Texas as a colony, province, republic, and state. Gracy explains how the agency has struggled to balance its differing library and archival functions and, most of all, to be treated as a full-range information provider, and not just as a collection of disparate services.
The American Civil War in Texas
Author: Johanna BurkePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781615324729
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book discusses Texas history during the Civil War (1861-1865) when Texas voted to join the Confederacy.
Something in the Soil
Author: Patricia Nelson LimerickPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
The Handbook of Texas
Author: Walter Prescott WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Us and Them
Author: Jim CarnesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195131258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Us and Them illuminates the dark corners of our nation's past and traces our ongoing efforts to live up to the American ideals of equality and justice. Fourteen case studies--enhanced through the use of original documents, historical photos, newly commissioned paintings, and dramatic narrative--bring readers a first-hand account of the history and psychology of intolerance. We read about Mary Dyer, executed for her Quaker faith in Boston in 1660. We learn how the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1838. The attack on Chinese miners in Wyoming in 1885, the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890, the Ku Klux Klan activities in Mobile, Alabama in 1981, and the Crown Heights riot in 1991 are among the memorable episodes presented in clear, evocative language that brings to life history that is often forgotten or slighted.
Preston Hollow: A Brief History
Author: Jack Walker DrakePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467149381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Series statement taken from publisher's website.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Texas Lithographs
Author: Ron TylerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477326081
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas.
Christianity in China
Author: Xiaoxin WuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474686
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.