The History of Texas. Robert A. Calvert
the Texas Rangers The Railroads and Economic Development Public Land Lumber and Other Industries Minerals The Growth of South Texas Labor Unions Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century Plain Living Agriculture Education and Other Public Services Politics The Legacy of the Frontier Readings
12 8 Texas in the Age of Agrarian Discontent, 1886–1900 Economic Change Ethnic Groups in the Late Nineteenth Century Women in Late‐Nineteenth‐Century Texas Agrarian Organizations Texas Politics, 1886–1900 Populism Texas at Century’s End Readings
13 9 Texas in the Progressive Era, 1900–1929 Oil Urban Growth and Workers Labor Unions Agriculture and Rural Life Ethnic Texans Texas Politics in the New Century Women in Action Prohibition in Texas Texas after World War I Readings
14 10 Texas and the Great Depression, 1929–1941 Texans Confront the Depression State Politics, 1929–1933 The Return of “Fergusonism,” 1933–1935 The New Deal and Taxes Minorities During the Great Depression State Politics, 1935–1938 National Politics, 1935–1938 State Politics, 1938–1944: The End of the New Deal Literature and the Arts Prior to World War II Readings
15 11 War, Prosperity, and Modernization, 1941–1960 Texas and World War II Postwar Politics Texas Industrialization Texas Workers and Urban Growth Labor Unions Texas Farms The Texas Family Texas Schools Texas Society and Culture at Midcentury Readings
16 12 Texas in Transition, 1960–1986 The Decade of Johnson and Connally Challenges to the White Male Elite for Control of Texas The Civil Rights Crusade Sharpstown and the End of an Era The Texas Economy Toward a Two‐Party State? Leisure and the Arts Readings
17 13 A New Texas? 1986–2001 The Texas Population in Transition The Oil Bust and Its Aftermath Rural Texas in Crisis Religion in Texas: A Force for Tradition Texas Culture in the Late Twentieth Century Texans at Play: Sports and Leisure The Paradox of Texas Politics Historic Assumptions in Transition Conclusion Readings