Book Reviews from the Journal of Texas History

Book reviews will be issued on a recurring basis, in between the publication of each new volume. Most recent reviews are listed first. To search for a title, use your browser’s find option.

Send any questions about the book review process to Felipe Hinojosa at reviews@jtxh.org.

  • Bridles and Biscuits: Contraband Culture in Spanish East Texas

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 -Liz Elizondo

  • The Crossing: El Paso, The Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - Carlos Kevin Blanton

  • Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - Rebecca A. Gonzalez

  • Home Heat Money God: Texas and Modern Architecture

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - Rex Koontz

  • Neither Fish Nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 = Gabrielle Lyle

  • Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - Brandy Winn

  • Texas: An American History

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - Walter L. Buenger

  • William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 -Zaragosa "Mito" Diaz-Espinoza

  • Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - Carolina Monsivais

  • Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - Derek G. Handley

  • Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - Megan Birk

  • Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - Trinidad Gonzales

  • Run For Your Lives!: Gender and the Runaway Scrape

    VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - James E. Crisp