While mainstream Vietnamese history chronicles a few woman warriors of the past and some contemporary female activists, Vietnamese women always have performed ...

At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft had no more enticing options than to stay home and help on the family ranch--so the ...

The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn't know would be the final evening ...

Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the "Great American Desert," Americans have grappled with the radical differences ...

Fazlur Rahman's mother died tragically when he was only seven years old, but her words reverberated throughout his life: "Someday you will be a doctor ...

Despite their self-proclaimed reputation as the "greatest gamblers" and the fiercest of free-enterprise capitalists, Edward W. Constant II argues that ...

Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant ...

Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration is an innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational ...

Jada Ach's scholarship in Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 seeks to reevaluate the Progressive ...

In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial , Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the ...