New Sources for Research
Chapter One: The Environment of Texas Politics

*Buenger, Walter. The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001.

Carroll, Mark M. Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

*Colloff, Pamela. "The Battle of the Border." Texas Monthly (April 2001): 96-103. Undocumented immigrants, drug smugglers, and violence in Maverick County on the Mexican border.

*Dingus, Anne. "Independence Day." Texas Monthly (June 2001): 64, 79, 81. Celebrating Junetheenth, and African-American holiday that originated in Texas and now is celebrated nationwide.

*Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays. Edited by Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

The New Handbook of Texas. Ron Tyler, editor-in-chief. 6 vols. Austin: Texas State Historical Assocation, 1996. It has more than 23,000 articles on Texas culture and history. The online edition http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online is searchable.

Orrenius, Pia M. "Illegal Immigration and Enforcement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Overview." Economic and Financial Review (First Quarter 2001): 2-11.

The Portable Handbook of Texas. Edited by Roy R. Barkley and Mark F. Odintz. Austin: Texas State Historical Assocation, 2000. A one-volume consolidation of The New Handbook of Texas in six volumes. See above.

Reid, Jan. The Bullet Meant for Me. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. A Texas author's account of his near-fatal shooting in Mexico City and the long, agonizing road to recovery.

*Robbins, Paul, and Andrew Wheat, eds.. The State of the Lone Star State: How Life in Texas Measures Up. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, 2000.

Rural Texas in Transition. Austin: Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, February 2001.

Staton, Suzanne. "Tech Workers Wanted." Fiscal Notes (March 2001): 12-13. Skilled workers needed for Texas's high-tech industry.

Swartz, Mimi. "Good-by to All That." Texas Monthly (July 2001): 104, 13-132. Austin's dot-com bust.

"Texas Timber Grows Up." Fiscal Notes (October 1999): 1, 12-13. About the industry that is the mainstay of the East Texas economy.

Underwood, Rodman L. Death on the Nueces: German Texans, Treue der Union. Austin: Eakin Press, 2000. The story behind the Union monument at Comfort, Texas.

Wright, Bruce. "The Next Big Thing is Very, Very Small." Fiscal Notes (April 2000): 7-9. About nanotechnology in Texas and its possibilities.