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An Essential Reading List
of Texas History

Compiled by Dr. Kirk Bane
Blinn College, Bryan, Texas
“Obviously, this list barely scratches the surface but I would classify the following titles, all published within the last several years, as “essential” reading for Texas Studies. I think most Lone Star historians would agree with these selections.” - Dr. Kirk Bane

As they are all important, this list is in no particular order.
Texas: A Modern History by David G. McComb, Revised Edition (University of Texas Press, 2014).
Dr. McComb is an emeritus professor of history at Colorado State University.
Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations by Walter L. Buenger and Arnoldo De Leon, eds., (Texas A&M University Press, 2011).
Dr. Buenger is the chair of the history department at Texas A&M and Dr. De Leon teaches at Angelo State University.

Writing the Story of Texas by Patrick L. Cox and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., eds., (University of Texas Press, 2013).
Dr. Cox is the former Associate Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas and Dr. Hendrickson is emeritus at Midwestern State University.

See Review by Dr. Kirk Bane

Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity* by Glen Sample Ely (Texas Tech University Press, 2011).
Ely holds a Ph.D. from TCU in history and is a documentary filmmaker.
*(Not to be confused with Where the West Begins: A history of Ft. Worth and Tarrant County by Janet L. Schmelzer)
J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind by Steven L. Davis, (University of Texas Press, 2009).
Davis is Assistant Curator at the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Witliff Collections at Texas State University.
NOTE: Davis is also the author of the superb study, Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond (Texas Christian University Press, 2004).
Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right by Sean Cunningham, (University Press of Kentucky, 2010).
Dr. Cunningham teaches history at Texas Tech University.
State of Minds: Texas Culture & Its Discontents by Don Graham, (University of Texas Press, 2011).
Dr. Graham teaches literature at the University of Texas.
Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker by Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, (Texas Tech University Press, 2010).
Dr. Carlson is emeritus at Texas Tech University and Crum is a retired state district judge.
Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency by Mark Updegrove, (Crown, 2012).
Dr. Updegrove is the Director of the LBJ Library in Austin.
Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State by Randolph Campbell, (Second Edition Oxford University Press, 2012).
Dr. Campbell teaches history at the University of North Texas.
by Dr. Kirk Bane
May 2, 2013

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