Texas

"[This book] expands and often upends existing histories by locating the early culture wars not in coastal campuses and think tanks but in Hereford, a small town in the Texas Panhandle." -- Jason Mellard, author of "Progressive Country"

"Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers." -- The New York Times Book Review

"[This book] expands and often upends existing histories by locating the early culture wars not in coastal campuses and think tanks but in Hereford, a small town in the Texas Panhandle. The themes of controversy and speech, patriotism and protest, outrage and offense, that are the political oxygen of the early twenty-first century all appear here, near fully formed, in the High Plains of 1974." -- Jason Mellard, author of "Progressive Country"

Notes on race, fashion, border towns, collage, creativity, and zoot suits. And more.

Notes on race, fashion, border towns, collage, creativity, and zoot suits. And more.

Museum Confidential: Season 6, Episode 13.

Museum Confidential: Season 6, Episode 13.

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

We feature a conversation with the noted visual artist Sedrick Huckaby, who is currently the Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist here at TU.