Texas History

Use this guide to find primary and secondary sources for the study of Texas history.

Selected Books on the Texas Revolution

Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas by Sam W. Haynes
Publication Date: 2022

E-book
Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 by Andrew J. Torget
Publication Date: 2015

E-book
Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution by Sam W. Haynes; Gerald D. Saxon (Editors)
Publication Date: 2015

E-book
Six Constitutions over Texas: Texas' Political Identity, 1830-1900 by William J. Chriss
Call Number: KFT1601.5 .C47 2024

Publication Date: 2024
Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution by Richard Bruce Winders
Call Number: F390 .W775 2004

Publication Date: 2004
An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 by Randolph B. Campbell
Call Number: E445.T47 C35 1989

Publication Date: 1989

Available as an e-book and in print
The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays by Randolph B. Campbell
Call Number: KFT1601.6.S55 L39 2010

Available in print and as an e-book
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