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Focus on American History

Edited by Don Carleton

As a leading history research center, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History collects, preserves, and makes available documentary and material culture evidence encompassing key themes in Texas and US history. The Focus on American History series features book projects based on the Center’s extensive archival, artifact, and library collections.

Robert Devens, Acquiring Editor

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Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

Texas Politics, 1929-1932

By Norman D. Brown, edited and with an introduction by Rachel Ozanne

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Eddie Adams

Bigger than the Frame

By Eddie Adams; foreword by Don Carleton; preface by Alyssa Adams; essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker

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The Making of Hillary Clinton

The White House Years

Photographs by Robert McNeely

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Houston on the Move

A Photographic History

By Steven R. Strom, Photographs by Bob Bailey Studios

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Comfort and Glory

Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center

By Katherine Jean Adams

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Relentless

The Stories behind the Photographs

By Neil Leifer, with Diane K. Shah

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Selma 1965

The Photographs of Spider Martin

Photographs by Spider Martin, with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley and a foreword by Don Carleton

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Picturing Texas Politics

A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry

By Chuck Bailey; with historical text by Patrick Cox; introduction by John Anderson

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Front Row Seat

A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush

By Eric Draper

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Texas Furniture, Volume One

The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition

By Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren

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Texas Furniture, Volume Two

The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880

By Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren

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The House Will Come to Order

How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics

By Patrick L. Cox and Michael Phillips

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The Hogg Family and Houston

Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal

By Kate Sayen Kirkland

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Danger Pay

Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

By Carol Spencer Mitchell

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From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi

Our Embassy Years during Genocide

By Ambassador Robert Krueger and Kathleen Tobin Krueger

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Kindler of Souls

Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas

By Rabbi Henry Cohen II

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Russell Lee Photographs

Images from the Russell Lee Photograph Collection at the Center for American History

By Russell Lee

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Eckhardt

There Once Was a Congressman from Texas

By Gary A. Keith

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Harry Reasoner

A Life in the News

By Douglass K. Daniel

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The Texas Book

Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Edited by Richard A. Holland

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Leavin' a Testimony

Portraits from Rural Texas

By Patsy Cravens

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The First Texas News Barons

By Patrick Cox

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Changing the Face of Power

Women in the U.S. Senate

By Melina Mara

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Profiles in Power

Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, New Edition

Edited by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., Michael L. Collins, and Patrick Cox

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Alexander Watkins Terrell

Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat

By Lewis L. Gould

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The French in Texas

History, Migration, Culture

Edited by François Lagarde

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Once Upon a Time in Texas

A Liberal in the Lone Star State

By David Richards

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Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator

By Patrick L. Cox

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Watching Television Come of Age

The New York Times Reviews by Jack Gould

Edited by Lewis L. Gould

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