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From High on the Hilltop... (Paperback Edition) - $24.95 *

Marshall Terry

A historical account of Southern Methodist University written by Marshall Terry, one of the university's most distinguished and beloved professors, with essays by other authors (including the president of the university, R. Gerald Turner) describing various aspects of the institution's history as it approaches its centennnial anniversary. SMU was founded in 1911 and classes were first offered in 1915.

2008 paperback edition. ISBN 978-1-893451-14-8

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Dallas Citizens Council - $25 *

Darwin Payne

A history of Dallas' most powerful civic organization, founded in 1937 as an elite membership with membership limited to the chief executives of local businesses. Since its beginning the organization has touched in a significant way virtually every major development in the transformation of Dallas into one of America's leading citizens.

2008 paperback edition. ISBN 978-893451-13-1

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Dallas Reconsidered - $14 *

edited by Michael V. Hazel

Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History, edited by Michael V. Hazel, is a collection of essays appearing originally in Heritage News and Legacies. Hazel is the author himself of nine of the thirty essays, and the others are written by local historians whose findings are putting the city's past in a new light. The essays are divided into five sections: Establishing a Community, Building a City, Ethnic Groups in Dallas, Women in Dallas, and Special Events in Dallas. The essays, well-researched and readable, have such titles as "Navigating the Trinity," "Early Italian Settlers in Dallas," "Dallas Women's Clubs," and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines." The back cover of the book notes "Some Surprising Facts About Dallas." These include the story of a steamboat that came up the Trinity to Dallas from the Gulf of Mexico in 1867, a German beer garden that in 1886 made first use in town of outdoor electric lights, a thriving Italian community that supported an Italian language newspaper for many years, a cotton mill owned and operated by African Americans just after 1900, and the election of two activist women in 1908 to the school board at a time when women could not vote.

1995. Paper. 325 pages. ISBN 0-9637629-9-0.

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Reporting the Kennedy Assassination - $10 *

edited by Laura Hlavach and Darwin Payne

Reporting the Kennedy Assassination relates the word-by-word proceedings of the thirtieth reunion of journalists who covered the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on that fateful weekend of Nov. 22-24, 1963. These fascinating stories give first-person accounts of the journalists' experiences at Dealey Plaza, inside the Schoolbook Depository, at Parkland Hospital, at the Texas Theater where Oswald was captured, and at the Dallas police station. This is an essential document for students of the assassination as well as casual readers who want to know more about what happened behind the scenes. With photographs.

1996. Paper. 174 pages. ISBN 0-9637629-2-3.

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Our Authors

Steve Blow

STEVE BLOW has been an award-winning general interest columnist for The Dallas Morning News since 1989. In addition to numerous other awards, both the Headliners Foundation of Texas and the Associated Press have honored him as the top columnist in the state of Texas.

He is a native of Tyler, Texas, who attended Tyler Junior College and graduated in 1974 from the University of North Texas. He was a newspaper reporter for the Fort Worth Press and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times until he joined The Dallas Morning News in 1978 as a reporter.

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Ronald L. Davis

RONALD L. DAVIS, professor of history emeritus at Southern Methodist University who now lives in Wimberley, Texas, is a native of Dallas who grew up in the Oak Cliff section of the city. He holds three history degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, including the PhD, and is the author of numerous books about American culture, particularly film history and biography. During a teaching career that lasted more than three decades, Davis interviewed countless of the world's most famous entertainers and film stars, placing the transcripts in Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library as the Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection.

Davis's books include A History of Opera in the American West (1965); Opera in Chicago (1966); The Social and Cultural Life of the 1920s (ed., 1972); A History of Music in American Life (1980-82); Hollywood Anecdotes (with Paul Boller, 1987); Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream (1991), John Ford: Hollywood's Old Master (1995), Duke: the Life and Image of John Wayne (1998), winner of the 1999 Spur Award; The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System (1993), Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American Society Since 1945 (1996); and La Scala West: The Dallas Opera Under Kelly and Resigno (2000), and John Rosenfield's Dallas (2002).

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Michael V. Hazel

MICHAEL V. HAZEL is a major figure in the upsurge of interest in Dallas history that has occurred in recent decades. He is editor and founder of Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (now in its twentieth year), and also founder of the Dallas History Conference that in 2008 held its ninth annual session.

He is a native of Dallas, a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a major in history, and holder of a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. Hazel has been interim director of two of the city's major historical organizations, the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas Heritage Village, and he helped in researching and gathering archival material for the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture.

He has written extensively about Dallas. His books include Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History (1995), Dallas: A History of Big D (1997), Dallas Public Library: Celebrating a Century of Service, 1901-2001 (2001), and (ed) Stanley Marcus from A to Z (2000). He was editor of Historic Photos of Dallas (2006) and photo editor of Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History (2002).

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Margaret Moseley

MARGARET MOSELEY was born in Oklahoma and reared in Fort Worth, Texas, shere she attended public schools. She spent her early professional years with the Fort Worth Press and WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV), and then moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, with her husband Jack (now former husband) when he became editor of the Southwest Times Record. In Fort Smith she began working in public relations and got involved in politics, working toward the election of a young governor named Bill Clinton.

In the 1990s she decided to write a novel. The result, Bonita Faye, achieved great acclaim. Another novel, Milicent LeSueur also was published by Three Forks Press. A series of other mystery novels were published by Berkeley: The Fourth Season (1998), Grinning in His Mashed Potatoes (1999), and A Little Traveling Music, Please (2000). The mother of two daughters, Ms. Moseley now lives in Euless, Texas.

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Darwin Payne

DARWIN PAYNE, a life-long resident of Dallas, is professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, where he taught journalism for 30 years. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a master of arts degree from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former newspaper reporter for the Fort Worth Press and the Dallas Times Herald, and he was a reporter and commentator for "Newsroom," the groundbreaking public television news show on KERA-TV.

Payne has published numerous books, including award-winning biographies of the writer Owen Wister and the federal judge Sarah T. Hughes. His first book was a biography of Frederick Lewis Allen entitled The Man of Only Yesterday, published by Harper & Row in 1975. He has also written extensively on Dallas history, notably his well-received Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century (now out of print but being revised for a third edition). His other books include From Prairie to Planes: How Dallas and Fort Worth Overcame Politics and Personalities to Build One of the World's Biggest and Busiest Airports (with Kathy Fitzpatrick as co-author); Initiative in Energy: The Story of Dresser Industries, 1880-1978; Dallas: An Illustrated History; Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History; Texas Chronicles: The Heritage and Enterprise of the Lone Star State; and (editor) Dissenting Opinion: Carl Brannin's Letters to the Editor, 1933-1976. Most recently, Darwin contributed an essay to Marshall Terry's newly reprinted historical account of Southern Methodist University, "From High on the Hilltop...", describing various aspects of the insitution's history as it approaches its centennial anniversary.

He has been a trustee and member of the Dallas Historical Society, and he was a member of the historical team that researched and gathered archival material for the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture. He resides in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas with his wife Phyllis Schmitz Payne, and is the father of four children.

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Marshall Terry

MARSHALL TERRY is one of Texas' most distinguished novelists. He is a Fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters and a former president. In 1991 that organization presented him with the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement. In 2007 SMU awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters. He founded the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University and was the E.A. Lilly Distinguished Professor of English. After having taught at SMU since 1954, he retired in 2007 as professor emeritus.

His first novel, Old Liberty, published in 1961 by Viking Press and re-issued in 1991 by Texas Tech University Press, was hailed by the New York Herald Tribune as "vigorous, vital, original ... A fine first novel by a highly gifted writer." Terry's Tom Northway introduced a series of novels on the Northway family. Tom Northway was co-winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' award for the best novel of 1968, and his short story, "The Antichrist," won the 1972 short story award. My Father's Hands, Land of Hope and Glory, Angels Prostate Fall, and Tex Rex. His short stories have been collected in Dallas Stories and The Memorialist. Terry's historical account of Southern Methodist University, "From High on the Hilltop..." has just been reprinted, along with new essays by other authors, describing various aspects of the insitution's history as it approaches its centennial anniversary.

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