Presents an outline of a period in Texas history that has left a deep impress upon the later history, the political organization and the public mind of Texans.

The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war di

In a rare departure from the narrow periodization that marks past studies of Texas politics during the Civil War era, this sweeping work tracks the leadership a

Written by one of the deans of Texas history, Civil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil War as well as a gu

The United States today is a divided nation and some say the country may be heading toward breakup, or possibly civil war. That has happened before and the resu