Aware that some may see the title of this volume as an oxymoron, James Ward Lee argues in his ''A...

What are women's rights? Don't all women have the same rights as men? What are the consequences o...

Fourteen-year-old Cat Jennings lives—and works—on a hardscrabble farm outside Bastrop, Texas, wit...

Everyday doctors perform surgeries that were unheard of only a few years ago. They continue to ma...

Don Martin De Leon was the only Tejano empresario to settle a colony in Texas, in the days before...

State House Press is launching a new series of Texas biographies aimed at students in the fourth ...

Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple...

Texas just may be the state in the Union with the strongest masculine image. Our heroes, from cow...

FEATURING 160 RECIPES and Recipe for a happy family:

From the impoverished inner-city streets of Milwaukee to her own nationally syndicated talk show ...

Was the West really hell on horses and women? Not always. This collection of short stories refute...

In Texas, ''chef'' covers a wide range of cooking styles. Included here are chefs who are heavily...

When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man th...

By 1900, the tale of the 300 Texians who died in the 1836 battle of the Alamo had already become ...

Luke and the Van Zandt County War

In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.T. (Tom), put together an empire in North Tex...

Rock climbing walls, swimming pools, mini golf courses, ice skating rinks are now available on pa...

During the 20th century, smallpox was responsible for 500 million deaths, yet by the end of the c...

THE GUNFIGHTERLonghair Jim Courtright had been both a marshal and a desperado--and in Hell's Half...

This book, written for young people ages eight to twelve, tells readers in clear terms what meteo...

Texans love to eat, and one dish they can’t get enough of is chili—so much so that chili con carn...