Long before debates over educational equity dominated the national conversation, Black communities across the American South were quietly and subversively building their own institutions. In A Born Teacher: The Making of a Black Community School in Texas, Avis A. Mullen and acclaimed writer Kirsten Mullen unearth the deeply personal and profoundly ......
The John Staub Awards, presented biennially by the Texas Chapter of the Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, honor architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and master artisans whose work exemplifies beauty, proportion, and enduring craftsmanship. Named for the influential Houston architect John F. Staub (1892-1981)-whose ......
Journalist Keyes Beech was sometimes accused of being a war lover. He denied the charge. Wars, he said, just kept happening on his watch. "You may hope that they'll go out of fashion, but you can't just ignore them." His accusers weren't entirely wrong, however. Even friends acknowledged that he liked to be where the action was. Keyes Beech saw a ......
Down in the Dirtchronicles more than fifty years of multidisciplinary artist Terry Allen's printmaking and visual storytelling. Rooted in West Texas yet reaching far beyond, Allen's work fuses image, text, music, and performance into layered narratives shaped by memory, geography, and personal mythologies. The book, anchored by the 2021-22 ......
"While many books lament the growing distance between people and the natural world, Adventures in Ecology does something more difficult: it offers a way back," series editor Robert Mace writes in his foreword. Organized around sixteen branches of science, Adventures in Ecology: A Guidebook to Inspire Future Conservationists cultivates an ......
Millions of Americans moved west to settle the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains during the tumultuous nineteenth century. In 1850, Dr. James Dudley Gray (1821-1894) set out for Iowa from Marietta, Ohio, following a family migration path pioneered by his oldest brother a decade earlier. Sorrow and Satisfaction: The Life of Dr. James Dudley ......
Photographs and Dispatches from El Paso Cemeteries
Given: Photographs and Dispatches from El Paso Cemeteries is composed of colorful photography, poetry, and a larger history of three adjoining cemeteries-Concordia Cemetery, Temple Mt. Sinai, and B'nai Zion Cemetery. The collection presents an intriguing view of boundaries: between life and death; social groups; communities; religious backgrounds; ......
The history of high school football in Texas is replete with stories of the dynastic programs produced, such as the famous Odessa Permian and the "Mojo mystique" from 1965 to 1991, as chronicled in the book, movie, and TV series, Friday Night Lights. But sometimes overlooked, an underdog football program would rise as the unexpected champion for ......
Oklahoma Fishes: A Regional Field Guide covers the identification, distribution, and ecology of the fish species that occur in the rivers, streams, and reservoirs of Oklahoma. William Matthews and Edie Marsh-Matthews take a nontraditional approach by dividing the state into seven regions based on watershed boundaries and distribution patterns of ......
