Texas Troubles:  Moving Toward Secession

• Addington, Wendell G.  “Slave Insurrections in Texas,” The Journal of Negro History 35 (October 1950), 408-434.
• Reynolds, Donald E.  “Vigilante Law During the Texas Slave Panic of 1860,” Locus 2 (Spring 1990), 173-186.
• White, William W.  “The Texas Slave Insurrection of 1860,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 52 (January 1949), 259-285.
• McCaslin, Richard B. Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas 1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
• Reynolds, Donald E.  Editors Make War:  Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis.  Nashville:  Vanderbilt University Press, 1970. 

Other Useful Online Resources you can access from your library

• America: History and Life
• Archives USA
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
• Biography Collections 
• Biography Index via FirstSearch
• History Internet Resources
• History Subject Guide  Includes print resources available in Willis Library
• Portal to Texas History
• Texas Digital Sanborn Maps