LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Texas History: eBooks

Few Available eBooks

Below are a few eBooks available in our databases for eBooks. These databases are listed on the right column.
Search these databases listed in the box on the right to find more eBooks on Texas history.

Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution by Thom Hatch
Call Number: Credo Reference
ISBN: 9780786405930
Publication Date: 2007
This comprehensive encyclopedia provides thorough coverage for people, places, events and issues spanning the pre-Revolution period and settlement of Texas by Americans to the forming of the Republic in 1836.
The History of Texas by Robert A. Calvert (Original Author); Gregg Cantrell (Original Author); Arnoldo De Leon (Original Author)
Call Number: EBSCO eBooks
ISBN: 9781118617731
Publication Date: 2014-01-28
The History of Texas is fully revised and updated in this fifth edition to reflect the latest scholarship in its coverage of Texas history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Fully revised to reflect the most recent scholarly findings Offers extensive coverage of twentieth-century Texas history Includes an overview of Texas history up to the Election of 2012 Provides online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more
Discovering Texas History by Light Townsend Cummins (Editor); Bruce A. Glasrud (Editor); Cary D. Wintz (Editor)
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9780806146195
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Conceived as a follow-up to the award-winning A Guide to the History of Texas (1988), Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990.
Black Women in Texas History by James M. Smallwood (As told to); Barry A. Crouch (As told to); Rebecca Sharpless (As told to); Bruce A. Glasrud (Editor); Merline Pitre (Editor)
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9781603440318
Publication Date: 2008-03-03
"… a cohesive whole, an analytical and chronological history of black Texas women from the Spanish period to the present, and especially the years from 1820 to 2000. .."
Texas History by Steven A. Jent
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9781556226984
Publication Date: 1999-12-09
If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need.A Browser's Book of Texas History is a day-by-day collection of more than 500 incident-some famous, some obscure-that have made Texas the most remarkable state in the Union. Even if you're a dedicated historian or an old-time Texan, you're likely to find something surprising, amusing, thought provoking, or just plain odd.With this book you can start every day of the year with a concise entry from the chronicles of this unique state, which just seems to naturally breed colorful people and bigger-than-life events.
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism by Robert Harold Duke
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9781623491727
Publication Date: 2014-07-31
LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas reveals the local ramifications of federal policy. Three case studies in the rising career of Lyndon B. Johnson show this in action: LBJ's formative experience as a New Dealer directing the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; his key role as senate majority leader in breaking the deadlock to secure funds for the Lake Waco dam project; and the cumulative effect of his Great Society policies on urban renewal and educational reform among the Mexican American community in Waco.
Lens on the Texas Frontier by Lawrence T. Jones; Russell L. Martin (Foreword by); Roy Flukinger (Foreword by)
Call Number: EBSCO eBook Collection
ISBN: 9781623491239.
Publication Date: 2014-03-27

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