Browsing by Subject "Major history"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The Texas Forest Service (TFS), known as the Department of Forestry until 1926, was created by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1915 and has compiled an impressive record of fire protection and resource management that ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Mormons and the agrarian West seem to be almost synonymous to some. The Mormon use of irrigation is internationally known and provides a benchmark in the history of the American West. While much work has been done regarding ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Mexico provided many opportunities for indirect international immigration to the United States between the years 1876 and 1940. The immigrants traveled from their countries of birth, for example China, Japan, Eastern Europe, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The object of this research has been to determine the willingness of the seventeenth century French Jesuit missionaries in Canada to adapt themselves and their message to the cultures of the Indian tribes with whom they ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)On April 12, 1861 Southern forces fired on Fort Sumter
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)This study of southern presidential voting patterns from 1828 to 1860 and secession balloting in early 1861 provides the political historian with a new window to political behavior in the region. It accounts for varying ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The trials and tribulations of the prohibition movement in Texas between 1887 and 1919 challenge the popular stereotype of evangelical Protestant hegemony in the Lone Star State. Despite the fact that the Texas political ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study examines the process of military leadership within the Regular Army in the period 1815 to 1898 and poses a paradigm that attempts to go beyond the argument about whether leadership is an art or science. Few ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This study of electoral voting patterns in the eleven ex-Confederate states between 1900 and 1932 sheds new light on political behavior in the post-disfranchisement South. It relies on computer-generated multiple regressions ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Arthur L. Wagner (1853-1905, USMA 1875) was an important and very influential officer in the army of his day. Through a number of propitious assignments and untiring personal commitment, Wagner became the unrivaled military ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)As a cultural phenomenon, the western frontier of the United States has played a central role in the development of the American people and of their institutions. Of particular importance to the directions American ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This work examines the early history of the National Maritime Union and traces Joe Curran's rise to prominance as a major labor leader. It focuses on the East coast seamen's short-lived unity under Joe Curran and the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)During World War II, the United States extended $ 11 billion in aid to the Soviet Union - the equivalent of $ 75 billion today. Much has been written about the diplomacy surrounding the extension of Lend-Lease to the Soviet ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Lyndon B. Johnson was a pragmatic politician, possibly the most skilled legislative tactician ever to occupy the White House; he was capable of reversing his position on controversial legislation, and he did weaken progressive ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)On June 26, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7086, establishing the National Youth Administration (NYA). The NYA was a response to mounting pressures to provide more aid than efforts by the Civilian ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)In March 1914, the impending passage of the Home Rule Bill threatened to plunge Ireland into a civil war. In an effort to forestall the creation of a provisional government in the province of Ulster, the Liberal government ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Olin E. Teague grew to manhood in rural Oklahoma and Arkansas during the two decades before the Depression. In 1928 he entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. His father's health failed during his second ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The Ouachita River Basin is an area which played an important but as yet unheralded part in early American history. Once the home of thousands of Indians, the Basin witnessed the arrival of Hernando de Soto as early as ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This dissertation examines the nature of government business relations, as perceived by the owners and managers of the Sun Oil Company, a large integrated oil and gas producer, transporter, refiner, and marketer. Sun has ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)In September 1939, as Europe went to war, the United States had an Army rated seventeenth in the world. The National Guard was a force, although partially equipped and trained, that could augment it. The Army quickly won ...