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Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : E-Heart Press, Incorporated
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Legends
ISBN : UOM:39015078290676
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Legends
ISBN : OCLC:1348389166
Author : Sylvia Ann Grider,Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0890967652
A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
Author : J. Lee Butts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493026173
Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving — such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls. Husband killers, run-of-the-mill murderers, whorehouse madams, prostitutes, gamblers, bank robbers, floozies — each contributes immeasurably to a rowdy, ribald history that dates from the state's earliest settlers to yesterday's biggest news story.
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Merline Pitre
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603444095
Though often consigned to the footnotes of history, African American women are a significant part of the rich, multiethnic heritage of Texas and the United States. Until now, though, their story has frequently been fragmented and underappreciated. "Black Women in Texas History" draws together a multi-author narrative of the experiences and impact of black American women from the time of slavery until the recent past. Each chapter, written by an expert on the era, provides a readable survey and overview of the lives and roles of black Texas women during that period. Each provides careful documentation, which, along with the thorough bibliography compiled by the volume editors, will provide a starting point for others wanting to build on this important topic. The authors address significant questions about population demographics, employment patterns, family and social dimensions, legal and political rights, and individual accomplishments. They look not only at how African American women have been shaped by the larger culture but also at how these women have, in turn, affected the culture and history of Texas. This work situates African American women within the context of their times and offers a due appreciation and analysis of their lives and accomplishments. "Black Women in Texas History" is an important addition to history and sociology curriculums as well as black studies and women's studies programs. It will provide for interested students, scholars, and general readers a comprehensive survey of the crucial role these women played in shaping the history of the Lone Star State.
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 1574411225
This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.
Author : Elizabeth Hayes Turner,Stephanie Cole,Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820337449
"This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a "unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Folklore
ISBN : OSU:32435068930932
Author : Anna M. Nogar
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268102166
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, identified as the legendary “Lady in Blue” who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor María, an author of mystical Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar addresses Sor María’s importance as an author of spiritual texts that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S. Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor María and her writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater, and public ritual. Nogar’s examination of these contemporary renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature, early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican American cultural studies.
Author : Carmen Goldthwaite
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237099
These are the Texas Dames, women who sallied forth to run sprawling ranches, build towns, helm major banks and shape Lone Star history. These "Dames" broke gender and racial barriers in every facet of life. Some led the way as heroines, while others slid headlong into notoriety, but nearly all exhibited similar strands of courage and determination to wrest a country, a state and a region from the wilds. From Angelina of the Hasinai, interpreter for the Spanish, and sharpshooter Sally Scull to Dr. Claudia Potter, America's first female anesthesiologist, and Birdie Harwood, first female mayor in the United States, historian Carmen Goldthwaite has been profiling Texas women and their accomplishments in her popular "Texas Dames" column. Here are their stories, from early Tejas to the twentieth century.
Author : Carmen Goldthwaite
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625851291
The author of Texas Dames shares a new collection of profiles featuring the incredible women who helped build the Lone Star State. Texas would not be Texas without the formidable women of its past. Beneath the sunbonnets and Stetsons, the women of the Lone Star State carved out ranches and breathed new life into arid spreads of land. When husbands, sons and fathers fell, bold Texas women were there to take the reins. Throughout the centuries, the women of Texas's ranches defended home and hearth with cannon and shot. They rescued hostages. They nurtured livestock through hard winters and long droughts and drove them up the cattle trails. They built communities and saw to it that faith and education prevailed for their children and their communities. Join author Carmen Goldthwaite in an inspiring survey of fierce Lone Star ladies.
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0929398572
This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three years—from lynchings to el pato boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; from jokes about droughts and lawyers to tales of folk, gospel and blues music; from gravemarkers to bottle trees, and more.
Author : Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574412772
The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society's members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.
Author : Cait Murphy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465097753
Beautifully designed and carefully curated, a fascinating collection of the things that shaped the way we live and play in America What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, "I'm sorry I bet on baseball"? Could it be Lance Armstrong's red-white-and-blue bike, now tarnished by doping and hubris? Or perhaps its ancestor, the nineteenth-century safety bicycle that opened an avenue of previously unknown freedom to women? The jerseys of rivals Larry Bird and Magic Johnson? Or the handball that Abraham Lincoln threw against a wall as he waited for news of his presidential nomination? From nearly forgotten heroes like Tad Lucas (rodeo) and Tommy Kono (weightlifting) to celebrities like Amelia Earhart, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Phelps, Cait Murphy tells the stories of the people, events, and things that have forged the epic of American sports, in both its splendor and its squalor. Stories of heroism and triumph rub up against tales of discrimination and cheating. These objects tell much more than just stories about great games-they tell the story of the nation. Eye-opening and exuberant, A History of American Sports in 100 Objects shows how the games Americans play are woven into the gloriously infuriating fabric of America itself.
Author : Don Blevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110371619
A gun-wielding madam, a brave young mother, a flame-haired card shark, a heroic slave girl, a sharp-shooting horse trader, an "angel" in black--these are some of the memorable women in From Angels to Hellcats, eight tales of adventure, crime, courage and