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Sunbelt Texas, Char Miller
Sunbelt Texas, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
What then is the Sunbelt, and Texas' place within it? The region first had to be recognized as a region, of course, and that has taken some doing. The term was initially employed in the late 1960s and soon came to loom large in the popular imagination. Still, its boundaries were and are inexact. Where is the Sunbelt? Some commentators have adopted an all-inclusive definition which links together those states south of the thirty-seventh parallel; an even more expansive version includes Virginia and the Pacific Northwest. Others rely on more precise, but no less problematic descriptions which, depending on the …
The Rise Of Urban Texas, Char Miller, David R. Johnson
The Rise Of Urban Texas, Char Miller, David R. Johnson
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Texas contains three of the nation's ten largest cities, but their existence has not yet affected the hold that the state's rural heritage has on Texas' imagination--or so Texans' attachment to two nineteenth-century cultural landmarks, the Alamo and the Chisholm Trail, would suggest. As the shrine of Texas liberty, the Alamo continually generates elegies to the manly courage and bravery of the fallen heroes of 1836.
"Teach Me O My God": The Journal Of Hiram Bingham (1815-1816), Char Miller
"Teach Me O My God": The Journal Of Hiram Bingham (1815-1816), Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
During his years at college and in seminary, Bingham kept a journal which provides insights about the forces behind his own foreign missionary work in particular and those underlying the "invisible" Americans in general.
James Eights, Albany Naturalist: New Evidence, Char Miller, Naomi Goldsmith
James Eights, Albany Naturalist: New Evidence, Char Miller, Naomi Goldsmith
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Eights's contributions to scientific study and to the popularization of science have been understated and misunderstood.