Texas State Historical Association Virtual Exhibit

We are pleased to exhibit at the 2025 meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Houston from February 27 to March 1 and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books on Texas History, Politics, Border Studies, and more. Browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with Assistant Editor Mia Uribe Kozlovsky, and enjoy a great discount!

Apply the discount code UTXTSHA during checkout to receive 30% off the full list price of any book for domestic orders, plus free domestic shipping. Offer valid through March 31, 2025. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included.

Below is a schedule of our authors presenting their work:

PanelTime
James L. “Jim” Haley, Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Presents: The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat, and the History of Texas Sports Law2/28 9:00 AM
Stephen L. Hardin, Capitals of Texas on the Eastside of the Colorado2/28 9:00 AM

Texas Takes Shape

A History in Maps from the General Land Office

Mark Lambert, James Harkins, Brian A. Stauffer, Patrick Walsh

Iranians in Texas

Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity

Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher, Nestor Rodríguez

Somos Tejanas!

Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas

Jody A. Marín, Norma E. Cantú

Texian Exodus

The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy

Stephen L. Hardin

The Great Texas Stamp Collection

How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World's Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World's Most Valuable Postage Stamps

Charles W. Deaton

Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

Nicholas Keefauver Roland

Rehab on the Range

A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West

Holly M. Karibo

Bill Hobby

A Life in Journalism and Public Service

Don Carleton, Erin L. Purdy

Chuco Punk

Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

Tara López

Juneteenth Rodeo

Sarah Bird, Demetrius Pearson

William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border

Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

John Weber

Rick Perry

A Political Life

Brandon Rottinghaus

Home, Heat, Money, God

Texas and Modern Architecture

Kathryn E. O'Rourke, Ben Koush

Loose of Earth

A Memoir

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

Conditionally Accepted

Navigating Higher Education from the Margins

Eric Joy Denise, Bertin M. Louis Jr.

Before Lawrence v. Texas

The Making of a Queer Social Movement

Wesley G. Phelps

Border Policing

A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America

Holly M. Karibo, George T. Díaz

Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

David Ponton III

The City in Texas

A History

David G. McComb

Friedrichsburg

A Novel

Friedrich Armand Strubberg, James C. Kearney

Unheard Witness

The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

Jo Scott-Coe

A Curious Mix of People

The Underground Scene of '90s Austin

Greg Beets, Richard Whymark

The Sports Revolution

How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

Frank Andre Guridy

A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles

A History of Politics and Race in Texas

Bill Minutaglio

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Sonia Hernández, John Morán González

Pastures of the Empty Page

Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

George Getschow

Astros and Asterisks

Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained

Jonathan Silverman

The Mexican American Experience in Texas

Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality

Martha Menchaca

Armadillos to Ziziphus

A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country

David M. Hillis, Harry W. Greene

The Thirty-first of March

An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

Horace Busby

Managed Migrations

Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Cristina Salinas

Texas Lithographs

A Century of History in Images

Ron Tyler

Before Lawrence v. Texas

The Making of a Queer Social Movement

Wesley G. Phelps

Apostles of Change

Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

Felipe Hinojosa

Felipe Hinojosa is the John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America & Professor of History at Baylor University. He is the author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (University of Texas Press, 2021).

Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

Philis Barragán Goetz

Texas Takes Wing

A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State

Barbara Ganson

Hope and Hard Truth

A Life in Texas Politics

Mary Beth Rogers

The One Ann Only

Wit and Wisdom from Texas Governor Ann Richards

Ann Richards Legacy Project

More City than Water

A Houston Flood Atlas

Lacy M. Johnson, Cheryl Beckett

Last Gangster in Austin

Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia

Jesse Sublett

Border Land, Border Water

A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

C. J. Alvarez

Abecedario de Juárez

An Illustrated Lexicon

Julián Cardona, Alice Leora Briggs

Agent of Change

Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist

Cynthia E. Orozco

Barbara Jordan

Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder

Max Sherman

Downtown Juárez

Underworlds of Violence and Abuse

Howard Campbell

Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Max Krochmal, Todd Moye

No Color Is My Kind

Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston

Thomas R. Cole

On the Porch

Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas

W. Chase Peeler

The Republican Party of Texas

A Political History

Wayne Thorburn

Lone Star Vistas

Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861

Astrid Haas

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Dilemmas of the Modern Fan

Jessica Luther, Kavitha Davidson

Texas Place Names

Edward Callary, Jean K. Callary

Improbable Metropolis

Houston's Architectural and Urban History

Barrie Scardino Bradley

Big Wonderful Thing

A History of Texas

Stephen Harrigan

Marfa

The Transformation of a West Texas Town

Kathleen Shafer

Chicana Movidas

New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell

As We Saw It

The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin

Gregory J. Vincent, Virginia A. Cumberbatch, Leslie A. Blair

Speaker Jim Wright

Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics

J. Brooks Flippen

Power Moves

Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

Kyle Shelton

Journey to Texas, 1833

Detlef Dunt, Anders Saustrup, James C. Kearney, Geir Bentzen

Progressive Country

How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture

Jason Mellard

Let the People In

The Life and Times of Ann Richards

Jan Reid

Writing the Story of Texas

Patrick L. Cox, Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr.

The Laws of Slavery in Texas

Historical Documents and Essays

Randolph B. Campbell, William S. Pugsley, Marilyn P. Duncan

Texian Iliad

A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836

Stephen L. Hardin, Gary S. Zaboly

ANNUAL · 6 x 9 ·  ISSN 2995-1313 · E-ISSN 2995-1321

Editors: Robert M. Ceresa, Huston-Tillotson University, and
Ronald E. Goodwin, Prairie View A&M University

Freedom Schools is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that elevates the distinctive voices of HBCUs in Texas and beyond as well as research that touches upon themes of democracy defined as the work of everyone and experiences of civic agency that build a shared world.  The journal explores the challenges of democracy rooted in civic capacity and community institutions, and models for dealing with them by drawing inspiration from America’s HBCUs. Freedom Schools seeks scholarship from across all disciplines and institutions.

ANNUAL · 6 x 9 · 128 PAGES/ISSUE · ISSN 2574-0180 · E-ISSN 2574-0199

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Editor

The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal is a research publication created to mine, showcase, and promote the rich field of oral history as it relates specifically to the US Latina and Latino experience.  Manuscripts are blind peer-reviewed and represent best practices of oral history and the highest research standards. The University of Texas Press publishes the journal for the Voces Oral History Project at the university’s School of Journalism. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, UT professor of journalism, is the journal’s founding editor.