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The States and the Nation series is a book series published in celebration of the United States Bicentennial by W. W. Norton & Company regarding the states of the United States of America. The first volume was published in 1975 and volumes continued to appear until 1984. [1]
Jerry Don Thompson (born November 21, 1942) is Regents Piper Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. [1] He is a prolific author of books on a variety of related topics, specializing in the American Civil War, the history of the Southwestern United States, and Texas history. [2]
One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country". Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is ...
In 1845 the United States annexed Texas, and after war with Mexico the Lone Star State officially joined, but seceded again to join the Confederacy — once again over slavery.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America is an American non-fiction book written by Colin Woodard and published in 2011. Woodard proposes a framework for examining American history and current events based on a view of the country as a federation of eleven nations, each defined by a shared culture established by each nation's founding population.
Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
One of the monuments planted on the border of Mexico and the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This image is now on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.
A History of Money and Banking in the United States; History of North Dakota (book) A History of the American People; The History of the Dividing Line; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; A History of US; The History of White People; History's Memory; The Hornbook of Virginia History