Western History Association Virtual Exhibit

We are pleased to exhibit at the 2023 meeting of the Western History Association inLos Angeles, CA from October 26 – 29, 2023, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books in history, border studies, Texas, Latinx and Chicanx Studies, and more. Browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editors, pick up a copy of our history subject catalog, and more.

Apply the discount code UTXWHA during checkout to receive 30% off the full list price of any book for domestic orders, plus free domestic shipping. Offer valid from October 25th through November 30, 2023. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included. Browse featured books below, and browse our course essentials here.

Below is a schedule of our authors presenting their work:

PanelTimeLocation
Jessica Luther, “Title IX and the Responses to Reports of Gendered Violence on College Campuses: An Assessment”10/25 3:30 PMSanta Anita A (Lobby/1st Level)
George T. Díaz, “Making and Unmaking the Carceral State: Histories of Incarceration and Anti-Carceral
Insurrections”
10/26 8:15 AMBeaudry A (Lobby/1st Level)
Erika M. Bsumek, “Settler Colonial Spaces: Enacting WhiteSupremacy in Cartography, Public Health, and Public Parks”10/26 10:15 AMVine (2nd Floor)

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Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

David Ponton III

The City Aroused

Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco

Damon Scott

Breaking the Gender Code

Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States

Georgina Hickey

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

The Mexican American Experience in Texas

Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality

Martha Menchaca

Managed Migrations

Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Cristina Salinas

Texas Lithographs

A Century of History in Images

Ron Tyler

The Olympics that Never Happened

Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth

Adam Berg

Before Lawrence v. Texas

The Making of a Queer Social Movement

Wesley G. Phelps

The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

Erika Marie Bsumek

Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

Philis Barragán Goetz

Apostles of Change

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

Felipe Hinojosa

Hope and Hard Truth

A Life in Texas Politics

Mary Beth Rogers

More City than Water

A Houston Flood Atlas

Lacy M. Johnson, Cheryl Beckett

Border Land, Border Water

A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

C. J. Alvarez

Chicanx Utopias

Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible

Luis Alvarez

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

Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Max Krochmal, Todd Moye

Resisting Garbage

The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities

Lily Baum Pollans

Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly

The Politics of Patronage

Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Benjamin Márquez

Lone Star Vistas

Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861

Astrid Haas

Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

Nicholas Keefauver Roland

Brown Trans Figurations

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

Francisco J. Galarte

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Viva George!

Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border

Elaine A. Peña

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Dilemmas of the Modern Fan

Jessica Luther, Kavitha Davidson

A Thirsty Land

The Fight for Water in Texas

Seamus McGraw

Border Policing

A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America

Holly M. Karibo, George T. Díaz

Border Citizens

The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona

Eric V. Meeks, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Big Wonderful Thing

A History of Texas

Stephen Harrigan

Taking the Land to Make the City

A Bicoastal History of North America

Mary P. Ryan

Chicana Movidas

New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell

A Promising Problem

The New Chicana/o History

Carlos Kevin Blanton

The Jemima Code

Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

Border Contraband

A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande

George T. Díaz

When Mexicans Could Play Ball

Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945

Ignacio M. García

Quixote's Soldiers

A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981

David Montejano

The Laws of Slavery in Texas

Historical Documents and Essays

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