Elizabeth Hayes

When Charlie "Horse" Holton finds himself chained up in a dark, unfamiliar basement, he decides that now it the time to start writing his memoirs. Hilarity ensues.

The role of mass communication in nation building has often been underestimated, particularly in the case of Mexico. Following the Revolution, the Mexican government used the new medium of radio to promote national identity and build support for the new regime. Joy Hayes now tells how an emerging co...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH pro...

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories m...

In every age and in every culture there have been women whochallenged the prevailing gender prescriptions and struck a nerve,resulting in waves of either change or repression. In Women andGender in the New South, Elizabeth Hayes Turner draws on amultiplicity of sources—part of the great outpouring o...

A haunting story of Odessa and her sister Ann, and what is learned on her journey to and from school.