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Texas history books
by UNT history faculty since 1987

Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas
by Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell (Southern Methodist University Press, 1987)

An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865
by Randolph B. Campbell (Louisiana State University Press, 1989; paperback, 1991) - Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize from Texas State Historical Association; Friends of Dallas Public Library Award from Texas Institute of Letters; Ottis Lock Award from East Texas Historical Association; Texas Historical Foundation Book Award; Summerfield G. Roberts Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas

Spanish Texas, 1519-1821
by Donald E. Chipman (University of Texas Press, 1992) - Kate Broocks Bates Award from Texas State Historical Association; Presidio La Bahía Award of the Sons of the Republic of Texas; Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award

Sam Houston and the American Southwest
by Randolph B. Campbell (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993; second edition, Longman Publishers, 2001; third edition, Longman, 2007)

Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
by Richard B. McCaslin (Louisiana State University Press, 1994) - Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize from Texas State Historical Association; Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History; History Book Club Alternate Selection

The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854
by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 1995) - Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award; Ottis Lock Award from East Texas Historical Association

The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901
by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 1996)

The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863
by Richard Lowe (Ryan Place Publishers, 1996; reprinted, McWhiney Foundation Press, 1998)

Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
by Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Oxford University Press, 1997) - Ottis Lock Award from East Texas Historical Association; Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize from Texas State Historical Association; Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History

Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880
by Randolph B. Campbell (Louisiana State University Press, 1998) - Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award

Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas
by Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph (University of Texas Press, 1999) - Presidio La Bahía Award of the Sons of the Republic of Texas; Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award from the Texas Old Missions and Fort Restoration Association and the Texas Catholic Historical Society

A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War: The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates
edited by Richard Lowe (Louisiana State University Press, 1999)

Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst
by Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (University of Texas Press, 2000) - Runner-up, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction from the Contemporary Western Writers Of America

Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930
by Roberto R. Calderón (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)

The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845
by F. Todd Smith (Texas A&M University Press, 2000) - Finalist, Friends of Dallas Public Library Award; honorable mention, Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize from Texas State Historical Association

Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas
by Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph (University of Texas Press, 2001)

Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State
by Randolph B. Campbell (Oxford University Press, 2004) - 2004 Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award

A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
by Frederick Law Olmsted, edited by Randolph B. Campbell (The Library of Texas. Degolyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Southern Methodist University, 2004)

From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859
by F. Todd Smith (University of Nebraska Press, 2005) - Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award; finalist, Kate Broock Bates Award from Texas State Historical Association; finalist, Friends of Dallas Public Library Award

Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi
by Richard Lowe (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) - Davis Book Award from Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.

At the Heart of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997
by Richard B. McCaslin (Texas State Historical Association, 2007)

Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas
edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Texas A&M University Press, 2007) - T.R. Fehrenbach Award from Texas Historical Commission

Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier
by F. Todd Smith and H. Sophie Burton (Texas A&M University Press, 2008)

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