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Eavesdropping on Texas History /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Mary L. Scheer, editor
- "The earth had chills and fever": the New Madrid earthquakes and Caddo Lake, 1811-1812 / Victoria H. Cummins
- A fly on Stephen F. Austin's shoulder in Mexico, 1822-1823 / Carolina Castillo Crimm
- The fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 / Watson Arnold
- "I was there": the abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker, December 19, 1860 / Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum
- "Margaret, Texas is lost": Sam Houston refuses to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 / Mary L. Scheer
- "And then the ball opened": a violent incident at Scabtown, Menard County, Texas, on New Year's Eve, 1877 / Chuck Parsons
- With the Yalies in the deep woods, May 10-13, 1909 / Dan K. Utley
- "So long, it's been good to know you"?: Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 / Heather Green Wooten
- "The game of the century," November 30, 1935 / Bill O'Neal
- The firing of Homer Price Rainey, November 1, 1944 / Light T. Cummins
- "Harry, the President is dead": Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Vice President Harry Truman, and Congressman Lyndon Johnson at the Board of Education on April 12, 1945 / Patrick Cox
- The establishment of Texas Southern University, 1947 / Merline Pitre
- "The loneliest job in the world": the day Lyndon Johnson became President, November 22, 1963 / Michael Collins
- "I remember it well. I lived it": Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and the passage of The marital property act of 1967 / Nancy E. Baker.