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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"History Texas"”.
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Celebrating the Texas Centennial: A National Register Nomination for the Stone Fort Museum
… the idea of commemorating one hundred years of Texas independence sparked an interest in Texas history. Texas boosters held meetings leading up to the 1936 Texas Centennial and planned how to celebrate and bring public awareness to Texas history. In addition to the exposition in Dallas, many …
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The Protracted Dispute over the Edwards Aquifer: Revisiting and Reframing Multiparty Stakeholder Conflicts in Management, Regulation, Allocation, and Property Rights
… was the worst single-year climatic occurrence in Texas’ recorded history. Texas must meet residential and economic development requirements of a population that will nearly double state wide over the next 50 years, and potentially grow over 300 percent along the IH 35 corridor between Austin and …
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The struggle for recognition by the Confederate States of America
… Correspondence, 1861-1865. The University of Texas library afforded two sources of invaluable material: The Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, and an incomplete microfilm file of the London Times for the war period. Two indispensable secondary sources, King Cotton …
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Interpreting Prehistoric Patterns: Site Catchment Analysis in the Upper Trinity River Basin of North Central Texas
… prehistoric settlement patterns in North Central Texas.
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Guadalupe College: A Case History in Negro Higher Education 1884-1936
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Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry
… War but did not gain considerable support in Texas until the late nineteenth century. While local option elections and calls for statewide prohibition in Texas failed, national prohibition efforts culminated in the instatement of the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919 and the Volstead Act in …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… an African-American brutally lynched in Paris, Texas during the 1890s. Through an examination of primary documents – newspaper articles, photographs, eyewitness testimonies, etc. – and secondary literature, the author will reconstruct an event in Texas’ history that has remained, for the most …
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Burying the War Hatchet: Spanish-Comanche Relations in Colonial Texas, 1743-1821
This dissertation provides a history of Spanish-Comanche relations during the era of Spanish Texas. The study is based on research in archival documents, some newly discovered. Chapter 1 presents an overview of events that brought both people to the land that Spaniards named Texas. The remaining …
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His, Hers, and Theirs: Domestic Relations and Marital Property Law in Texas to 1850
Texas law regarding the legal status of women and their property rights developed from the mingling of Spanish and English laws. Spanish laws regarding the protection of women's rights developed during the centuries-long Reconquest, when the Spanish Christians slowly took back the Iberian Peninsula …
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The Lone Star and the atom: Nuclear energy in Texas, 1945-1993
… for many people and regions. The experience of Texas with nuclear energy was no different. This dissertation is the first in-depth study of the development of nuclear power in the Lone Star State. In Texas, utilities did not implement nuclear power until the early 1970s, much later than in many …
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The lived experience of hysterectomy: A phenomenologic study
… longer a central focus, merely a part of their history.