Best Texas History Books To Dig Deeper

About this episode

Gene and Scott provide a listener-friendly reading list for those interested in deeper analysis of Texas history.

If you listened to our six-part series on turning-point documents in Texas history, Gene and Scott now lay out a listener-friendly reading list with suggestions on what to pick up when you’re ready for deeper analysis and debate. If you're looking to build your Texas history bookshelf, this episode is for you. We have a list of the books we discuss in the links below, but this is just the starting place. Other books by these authors are also worth reading, and exploring. Subscribe, share the ...

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Hosts: Gene Preuss, Scott Sosebee

Topics covered

• Texas history
• books
• reading list
• historical analysis
• debate

Keywords

• Texas history
• books
• reading list
• historical documents
• analysis

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