Thad Sitton

An introduction to to the techniques, problems, and pleasures of collecting oral history.

A firsthand view of Texas farming life before World War II.

An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.

An insider’s view of Texas cotton farming in the late 1920s.

Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the east Texas sawmill communities.

Based on thousands of fascinating primary accounts in letters, magazine articles, and interviews, Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers is the definitive social history of a vanishing American pastime—folk fox hunting.

The oral history of a lifelong resident of Caddo Lake.

An irreplaceable collection of photographs that documents ways of living off the land that once were common across the entire South.