Product Description: American history is teeming with unconventional, trailblazing Lone Star women with big, unprecedented achievements--outstanding, outrageous, outré women who know all about being "Texas Big" and being first. Texas's own Bessie Coleman was the first black person in the world to earn a pilot's license...read more

Product Description: Quick! Do you know . . . Which college was the first in the world to award a degree in jazz? Which state had the most drive-in movie theaters? Who was the first person to push a peanut up Pike's Peak with his nose? Who invented Frito Pie? Well, all the answers can be found here in Texas...read more

This revised and updated edition to the Gourmand award-winning biography of Thomas Volney Munson brings invaluable insights to the evolving picture of U.S. viticultural history, and offers a new and tantalizing view of the life and times of this nineteenth century champion of American horticulture. This a book for scholars and wine lovers alike.

Product Description: Sports Thematic Unit is based on the following pieces of literature: Casey at the Bat, The Greatest Sports Stories Never Told, The Winning Stroke. This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities...read more

Product Description: Her name was Rebecca Aston Brown, but the world knew her as Miss Bettie. Artist, world traveler, and for the times most shocking of all, a spinster to the end of her days, Bettie's life has been the subject of conjecture and rumor.

Product Description: During the Victorian era (1837-1901), many women took the best and worse of Texas and not only endured, but thrived. Author Sherrie McLeRoy profiles eight of these women who shared a simple link of geography by living on the bawdy, brawling Red River for at least some critical part of their years...read more