Book discussing the history, current programs, and religious school of Congregation Agudas Achim in celebration of the synagogues 75th anniversary.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1978, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1974-1976, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1985-1986, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 2009-2011, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1987-1988, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1946-2006, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1988-1989, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1986-1987, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1999-2002, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1980-1982, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 1978-1980, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Scrapbook documenting sports and athletics news and activities at Rice University during 2005-2009, including newspaper clippings, photographs.

Pictorial history with personal accounts and textual descriptions of Tomball, Texas, including a brief overview of the area and accounts of the families, businesses, social organizations, churches, and schools.

Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston’s history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of which struggled to claim the rights and privileges they desired. Previous scholars of Southern Jewish history have argued that Black-Jewish relations did not exist in the South. However, during the 1930s to the 1980s, Jews and Blacks in Houston interacted in diverse and oftentimes surprising ways. The distance between Houston’s Jews and Blacks diminished after changing demographics, the end of segregation, city redistricting, and the emergence of Black political power. Allison Schottenstein shows that Black-Jewish relations did exist during the Long Civil Rights Movement in Houston.

Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …

Book describing the history of the Harris County Bayland Orphanage including transcribed information from primary source documents.

A history the Baytown area from its settlement through 1945. The book includes maps and photographs. Index starts on page 148.

This book gives an overview of the history of Houston, Texas told in narrative form. The history discusses the creation of the city of Houston as well as major events in Texas history between 1836 and 1865.

Volume of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including religious anecdotes, stories about Native American dances, stories about petroleum and oil fields, folk songs, legends, customs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 205.

Booklet describing the history of northern Harris County, Texas, including information about the people, communities, industries, and other information of note, broken down by time periods.

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas held December 7 & 8, including a list of attendees, text of addresses, changes to membership, and biographical information about members who have passed. The theme of this conference was "Discoveries: Breakthroughs of Present Limitations of Knowledge and Their Significance to Our World."

Book discussing the history of Congregation Beth Israel from 1854 to 1954 on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the synagogue. The book also includes the programs of events celebrating the centennial, lists of current members and religious school students, and a roster of synagogue members who served during wartime.

Book containing twenty essays written by the Baytown’s Lee College American Studies class. The essays highlight various aspects of the history of the Baytown area through its people and places.