{"id":1495,"date":"2018-12-31T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:33:05","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

11.18.2018\u00a0 Author explores women\u2019s roles in Texas history<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell <\/span>(Texas A&M University Press, $37 hardcover) traces the impact women have had on the state\u2019s history from prehistoric times to the present.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is a narrative of Texas women\u2019s history,\u201d Boswell writes. \u201cIt is based on a simple premise: what women did in the past is intrinsically worth knowing. Texas would not be Texas without one half of its population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boswell tells the story of Texas women from numerous perspectives and points of view, giving \u201cspecial attention to the differences in the lived experiences of Native Americans, Tejanas, African Americans, Anglos, Germans, and Asians.\u201d She also examines the effects of class, religion, political ideology and sexuality.<\/p>\n

Organized chronologically, Women in Texas History<\/span> includes ten chapters and a conclusion, as well as extensive footnotes, bibliography and index, totaling about 375 pages. Each chapter includes a conclusion that concisely summarizes the era covered in that section.<\/p>\n

Boswell begins with Native American, Spanish, and Mexican women, then focuses on the Frontier South, the Antebellum period, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, settling the West Texas frontier, women\u2019s activism from the 1870s to 1920s, women\u2019s work during that same period, Depression and war, the postwar decades, and women taking charge at the end of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Hailed as a \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d book for its concept and approach, Women in Texas History is part of a series sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women\u2019s History. For more on the subject, see the foundation\u2019s web site, womenintexashistory.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Texas before you die:<\/span> Texas author E.R. Bills<\/span> has put together a delightful and useful Texas travel guide called 100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Reedy Press, $18 paperback).<\/p>\n

Bills divides the state\u2019s attractions into six categories: amusements and entertainment, parks and recreation, history and culture, food and drink, road trips, and photo ops.<\/p>\n

Each attraction is covered concisely in one or two pages. Bills doesn\u2019t limit himself to the usual tourist sites like the Alamo, Big Bend, Padre Island, Galveston, and the State Fair. They\u2019re in there, but so are these:<\/p>\n

Two-step at the Broken Spoke. Create graffiti at the Cadillac Ranch. Dive into a Texas swimming hole. Discover the Devil\u2019s Sinkhole. Watch a six-man football game. Eat some chicken-fried steak. Stay in a small town. Take a friend to try the 72-ounce Big Texan steak challenge. Snap your picture at the Sam Houston or Buddy Holly or Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins statues.<\/p>\n

Fun stuff. And, along the way, you\u2019ll probably learn something you didn\u2019t know about Texas.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span>\u2019s most recent book is The Book Guy.<\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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