During his five terms as lieutenant governor of Texas, Bill Hobby became one of the most powerful political figures in the state’s history. He was first elected to office in 1972 and served through 1990. Thanks to his brilliance as a legislative tactician and his personal integrity, Hobby was able to set the Senate’s agenda and garner respect from legislators on both sides of the aisle.
University of Texas Press
This Far and No Further: Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement
Photographs by William Abranowicz
In This Far and No Farther, photographer William Abranowicz delivers more than one hundred contemporary images of the places that shaped the civil rights movement, proving the Edmund Pettus Bridge and other historic sites still have stories to tell.
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.
Struggle for Justice: Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography
By Don Carleton
Struggle for Justice celebrates the legacy of the photographers who helped galvanize public support for the civil rights movement, often at great personal risk.
Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys: Texas Politics, 1929–1932
By Norman D. Brown; edited and with an introduction by Rachel Ozanne
In his deeply researched sequel to Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug, a master storyteller of Texas politics brings to life pivotal moments of backroom wrangling, economic crashes, and aftershocks still felt nearly a century later.
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
By John A. Lomax; foreword by John Lomax III, John Nova Lomax, and Anna Lomax Wood
Now back in print with a new foreword and photographs, this is the classic 1947 autobiography by pioneering folklorist John A. Lomax, who recorded and preserved thousands of American folk ballads for posterity.
Eddie Adams: Bigger than the Frame
By Eddie Adams; foreword by Don Carleton; preface by Alyssa Adams; essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker
This career-spanning collection of both iconic and rarely seen images celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, whose potent visual storytelling ran the gamut from the horrors of war to the lives of the famous and powerful.
The Making of Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
Photographs by Robert McNeely
These revealing, never-before-published photographs from the Clinton White House chronicle Hillary Clinton’s transformation into a national policymaker and foreshadow her unprecedented role as a trailblazer for women in presidential politics.
Houston on the Move: A Photographic History
By Steven R. Strom, Photographs by Bob Bailey Studios
Presenting over two hundred previously unpublished images from the city’s largest and most comprehensive photographic archive, this volume chronicles Houston’s transformation into a city of international importance.
Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center
By Katherine Jean Adams
Showcasing 115 remarkable quilts that span more than two hundred years of American quiltmaking, this volume introduces an outstanding collection of American quilts and quilt history documentation, the Winedale Quilt Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History
