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books (with John Vickrey Van Cleve). A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America (Gallaudet Univ. Press, 1982). The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Texans (Univ. of Texas Press, 1992). (with Donaly E. Brice). Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1997). (with James M. Smallwood and Larry Peacock). Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2003). (with Donaly E. Brice). “The Governor’s Hounds”: The Texas State Police, 1870 –1873 (to be published by the Univ. of Texas Press). articles and review essays (essays reprinted in this book are marked with an asterisk [*].) 1967 “Dennis Chavez and FDR’s ‘Court-Packing’ Plan.” New Mexico Historical Review 42 (Oct.): 261–280. 1969 *(with L. J. Schulz). “Crisis in Color: Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction .” Civil War History 16 (Mar.): 37–49. 1972 “The Freedmen’s Bureau and the 30th Sub-District in Texas: Smith County and Its Environs during Reconstruction.” Chronicles of Smith County, Texas 11 (Spring): 15–30. “Rusticated Rebel: Amos A. Lawrence and His Harvard Years.” Harvard Library Bulletin 20 ( Jan.): 69–83. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY BARRY A. CROUCH 258 The Dance of Freedom 1973 (ed.). “View from Within: Letters of Gregory Barrett, Freedmen’s Bureau Agent.” Chronicles of Smith County, Texas 12 (Winter): 13–26. 1974 *“Black Dreams and White Justice.” Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 6 (Winter): 255–265. “The Merchant and the Senator: An Attempt to Save East Tennessee for the Union.” East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 46: 53–75. (Winner, McClung Award). 1975 “Postbellum Violence, 1871.” In Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792– 1974, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Roger Burns, 3:1689–1846. 5 vols. New York: Chelsea House. 1978 *“Self-Determination and Local Black Leaders in Texas.” Phylon 39 (Dec.): 344 – 355. 1980 “Amos A. Lawrence and the Formation of the Constitutional Union Party: The Conservative Failure in 1860.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 8 ( June): 46 – 58. “Hidden Sources of Black History: The Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records as a Case Study.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 83 ( Jan.): 211–226. 1981 “Freedmen’s Bureau Records: Texas, a Case Study.” In Afro-American History: Sources for Research, edited by Robert L. Clarke, 74 –94. Washington, D.C.: Howard Univ. Press. 1984 *“A Spirit of Lawlessness: White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865–1868.” Journal of Social History 18 (Dec.): 217–232. 1985 “‘Booty Capitalism’ and Capitalism’s Booty: Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome and the American South.” Slavery and Abolition 6 (May): 3–24. 1986 “Alienation and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Deaf Community: A Response.” American Annals of the Deaf 131 (Dec.): 322–324. “A Deaf Commonwealth,” “Jay C. Howard,” and “Anson Spear.” In Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness, edited by John V. Van Cleve. 3 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill. “A Deaf Utopia? Martha’s Vineyard, 1700 –1900.” Sign Language Studies 53 (Winter ): 381–387. *(with Larry Madaras). “Reconstructing Black Families: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records.” Prologue: Journal of the National Archives 18 [3.138.122.4] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 15:43 GMT) (Summer): 109–122. Reprinted in Timothy Walch, comp., Our Family, Our Town: Essays on Family and Local History Sources in the National Archives, 156 – 167. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987. Also reprinted in Foundation for the National Archives, The Road to Freedom: The Freedmen’s Bureau Records (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 2006), a publication marking the completion of a five-year effort by the National Archives to preserve the Freedmen’s Bureau Records. 1988 (with Patricia A. Mulvey). “Black Solidarity: A Comparative Perspective on Slave Sodalities in Latin America.” In Manipulating the Saints: Religious Brotherhoods and Social Integration in Postconquest Latin America, edited by Albert Meyers and Diane Elizabeth Hopkins, 51– 65. Hamburg, Germany: Wayasbah. 1989 “Gallaudet, Bell and the Sign Language Controversy.” Sign Language Studies 62 (Spring): 71–80. 1990 *“‘Unmanacling’ Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 93 ( Jan.): 275–302. 1992 “The Freedmen’s Bureau in Beaumont.” Pts. 1 and 2. Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record 28: 8–27; 29 (1993): 8–29. *“Guardian of the Freedpeople: Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and the Black Community.” Southern Studies 3, no. 3 (Fall): 185–201. *“Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction.” In Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston, edited by Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz, 54 –73. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press. 1993...

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