@book{ehrenberg_crisp_brister_kearney_2021, place={Austin, Texas}, title={Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg}, publisher={Texas State Historical Association}, year={2021} }
 @article{crisp_2016, title={Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1939-8603"]}, DOI={10.1093/whq/whw127}, abstractNote={Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic. Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series. By Richard B. McCaslin. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2016. viii + 171 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, index. $15.95, paper.)

The settlement which became Washington-on-the-Brazos was established by one of Stephen F. Austin’s earliest Texas colonists—Andrew Robinson—as a ferry crossing and “house of Entertainment,” where the camino real crossed the iconic river along the old route from San Antonio to the eastern Spanish outpost of Nacogdoches (p. 4). Thus was formed the nucleus of the municipality which was legally organized under Mexican law in spring 1835.

Mexican law in Texas, however, lasted only until autumn, when the conflict that became known as the Texas Revolution … jecrisp{at}ncsu.edu}, number={4}, journal={WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY}, author={Crisp, James E.}, year={2016}, pages={495–496} }
 @misc{crisp_2014, title={This corner of Canaan: Essays on texas in honor of Randolph C. Campbell}, volume={80}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Southern History}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2014}, pages={964–966} }
 @misc{crisp_2012, title={Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker}, volume={78}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Southern History}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2012}, pages={463–464} }
 @book{kilgore_crisp_2010, title={How did Davy die? And why do we care so much?}, ISBN={9781603441940}, publisher={College Station: Texas A&M University Press}, author={Kilgore, D. and Crisp, J. E.}, year={2010} }
 @article{crisp_2010, title={Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution.}, volume={114}, ISSN={["0038-478X"]}, DOI={10.1353/swh.0.0027}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution James E. Crisp Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution. By L. Lloyd MacDonald. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing, 2009. Pp. 366. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781589806382, $26.00 cloth.) In spite of its rather misleading title, this book is a thoroughly traditional account of the Texas Revolution, albeit augmented by the author's special attention to the numerous Tejanos who took part in the revolt against the Mexican government in 1835 and 1836. (The Tejano "tories," however, are virtually ignored). Unfortunately, MacDonald mars his analysis at the outset by engaging in an endlessly confusing discussion of the proper nomenclature for the people of Hispanic and Anglo-American origins who together made up the rebel forces in this contest. After finally landing on a definition of Tejanos as "Texas-born descendants of Latino heritage" (21), he contradicts himself by applying this label to Lorenzo de Zavala (136), the native of Yucatán who became the Vice-President of the Texas Republic. [End Page 95] The book is further marred by errors of fact and geography: the author conflates the separate incidents at Anahuac in 1832 and 1835 (105); he twice claims that Zacatecas was the home town of the Jalapa-born Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna (46, 64); and he incorrectly locates the Orozimbo plantation where Santa Anna was held captive by the Texans after the Battle of San Jacinto (281). Far more serious than these lapses, however, is MacDonald's apparent ignorance of both key source documents and important recent scholarship. For instance, his claim that the Mexican army under General Filisola was obediently following the orders of Santa Anna in retreating from Texas in April and May of 1836 is thoroughly undercut by Gregg Dimmick's Sea of Mud (Texas State Historical Association, 2004). Moreover, during his discussion of David Crockett's controversial death at the Alamo (213-214), MacDonald cites sources that are both dubious and contradictory, while failing to mention the important Dolson letter, which is arguably the very best evidence as to just "how Davy died." This book's difficulties with regard to sources are exacerbated by a bizarre system of documentation which, when combined with the author's frequent use of the passive voice, obfuscates more than it reveals, and renders most of the author's endnotes virtually worthless to the reader. Most damning in terms of shoddy use of sources is a twice-quoted phrase (20, 239) from Herman Ehrenberg's memoir of the Texas Revolution which simply does not exist, either in the original German or in the four extant translations into English. MacDonald has inserted Irishmen and Tejanos into Ehrenberg's declaration that the German, English, and American soldiers held captive by the Mexicans at Goliad had all become Texans. MacDonald further taints his use of Ehrenberg's memoir by stating that the young Prussian came to Texas with "Bonham's Mobile Greys" (229). Ehrenberg entered Texas with Breece's company of the New Orleans Greys. This book is not all bad. MacDonald writes with a great love of his subject, which often brings immediacy to his descriptions of the tribulations of the Texans (though sometimes with invented dialogue). His analysis of Sam Houston's qualities as a commander is generally sound, and his elaboration of the role of Tejanos in the Texas Revolution is commendable. The greatest testimony to MacDonald's deep love of his subject comes from the book's many illustrations, which are all photographs of the author's own creations, in tooled leather, of maps, portraits, and architectural details. It is a shame that these are so dimly reproduced in many instances that the text is virtually illegible. James E. Crisp North Carolina State University Copyright © 2010 The Texas State Historical Association}, number={1}, journal={SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY}, author={Crisp, James E.}, year={2010}, month={Jul}, pages={95–96} }
 @book{james e. crisp_2009, title={Confrontando el Alamo : la ultima lucha de Davy Crockett y otros mitos de la revolucion de Texas}, publisher={Monterrey, Nuevo Le*on, M*exico: Fondo Editorial de Nuevo Leon}, author={James E. Crisp}, year={2009} }
 @article{crisp_2009, title={Goliad: The Other Alamo}, volume={112}, ISSN={["0038-478X"]}, DOI={10.1353/swh.2009.0109}, abstractNote={The author generally maintains his objectivity throughout, focusing on the factual information (who, what, when, and where). Overall, Conley does a fine job of striking both a chronological and geographical balance in A Cherokee Encyclopedia, devoting ample space to twentieth-century Cherokee people, who are often overlooked in favor of their ancestors, particularly those who suffered through the removal era. Moreover, the Eastern Band of Cherokees of western North Carolina receive more attention here than usual. The work, however, is not without minor problems. A few of the nonbiographical entries are too short and general to be helpful to many readers. Furthermore, topics such as Worldview, Cherokee Culture, and Weapons are likely not of much assistance for readers unfamiliar with the Cherokees, and some experts may find them, and a few other entries, to be so general as to be misleading. Nevertheless, Conley has compiled an impressive list of Cherokee people, places, and events. And the entries are concise, accessible, and well written. Consequently, Conley achieves his primary goal: A Cherokee Encyclopedia is, indeed, a handy reference for those interested in Cherokee history, culture, and people.}, number={3}, journal={SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY}, author={Crisp, James E.}, year={2009}, month={Jan}, pages={318–320} }
 @misc{crisp_2008, title={Jim Bowie}, volume={111}, number={3}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2008}, pages={366–368} }
 @misc{crisp_2008, title={Jose Maria de Jesus Carvajal: The life and times of a Mexican revolutionary}, volume={83}, number={1}, journal={New Mexico Historical Review}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2008}, pages={135–136} }
 @misc{crisp_2008, title={Juan Sequin}, volume={111}, number={3}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2008}, pages={366–368} }
 @article{crisp_2007, title={A Texas patriot on trial in Mexico: Jose Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.}, volume={110}, ISSN={["0038-478X"]}, DOI={10.1353/swh.2007.0036}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition James E. Crisp A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition. Translated and annotated by Andrés Reséndez. (Dallas: Library of Texas, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2005. Pp. 170. Bilingual: English-Spanish. Preface, note on orthography, illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1929531109. $60.00, cloth.) Among the many services rendered by José Antonio Navarro to his native land over a long and active life, none is more honored in Texas today than the steadfast loyalty he exhibited as he faced the death penalty for treason to Mexico. Captured with the doomed Texan Santa Fe Expedition in 1841, Navarro faced incriminating evidence that seemed overwhelming. He had signed the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, and he had entered New Mexico with an enterprise intended to turn that province into an extension of the rebel Texas Republic. The Library of Texas is to be congratulated for deviating from its practice of producing expertly edited new editions of classic Texas books to publish this remarkable collection of documents concerning Navarro's trial for treason. Andrés Reséndez, who demonstrates his own expertise in editing this volume, realized upon first seeing these papers in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library that they contained "dramatic proceedings that raised moving and profound questions about Navarro's loyalty" (p. ix). Most importantly for Reséndez, author of the superb Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Navarro's plight was emblematic of the "conflicting loyalties and wrenching dilemmas" (p. xiii) faced by thousands of people along the shifting borders between Mexico, the Texas Republic, and the United States—perhaps nowhere more poignantly than in Navarro's beloved San Antonio de Béxar. There are some surprises for most readers in this book. Reséndez proves through his deft analysis of the complex record of the trial, the sentencing, and the subsequent appeals that the leaders of the Mexican government, most notably President Antonio López de Santa Anna and Minister of War José María Tornel, were determined that the death sentence handed down by Navarro's initial court-martial in Mexico City be carried out. He was saved from the firing squad, not by the grace of the dictator, but by a convoluted military justice system that insisted that the Supreme Military Court's commutation of Navarro's sentence to indefinite incarceration could not be overturned, even as a furious Tornel suspended the judges responsible for this decision. As illuminating as these newly published documents are, however, the story is incomplete. The key decision from the Supreme Military Court, only small portions of which appear in other parts of the record, is missing from the Beinecke's [End Page 555] collection and apparently lost. However, other pieces of the puzzle of Navarro's tortured fate could and should have been included. Reséndez cites, but does not quote directly, a letter from Navarro asking amnesty from Santa Anna. This and other wrenching pleas from the imprisoned Navarro, available in transcripts at the University of Texas at Austin, would have powerfully illustrated Reséndez's point that Navarro was "forced to confront his old national demons" (p. xii) in Mexico—and shown that Navarro came perilously close to denying a freely-chosen Texan nationality. Another important piece of information referenced by Reséndez (p. 119, n. 20), but not included, is President Mirabeau B. Lamar's instructions to his first designated representatives in Santa Fe: William Dryden, John Rowland, and William Workman. A pertinent issue therein—whether the majority of New Mexico's population would be considered "Indians" under the Texas Constitution—was no trivial matter, as Reséndez acknowledges. Finally, for a "bilingual" edition, this volume has some odd omissions. Though Reséndez provides Spanish and English versions of his own preface and introduction, only the first sixteen of eighty-two endnotes are translated into Spanish. Nor is there a Spanish translation of Lamar's instructions to Navarro and...}, number={4}, journal={SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY}, author={Crisp, James E.}, year={2007}, month={Apr}, pages={555–556} }
 @article{crisp_2007, title={Documenting Davy's death - The problematic "Dolson letter" from Texas, 1836}, volume={46}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2007}, pages={22–28} }
 @misc{crisp_2005, title={New Orleans and the Texas Revolution}, volume={109}, number={2}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2005}, pages={273–274} }
 @book{crisp_2005, title={Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's last stand and other mysteries of the Texas Revolution}, ISBN={0195163494}, publisher={New York: Oxford University Press}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2005} }
 @misc{crisp_2003, title={Texas flags}, volume={42}, number={4}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2003}, pages={94} }
 @article{crisp_2001, title={An incident in San Antonio: The contested iconology of Davy Crockett's death at the Alamo}, volume={40}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={2001}, pages={67–77} }
 @misc{crisp_1999, title={50 miles and a fight: Major Samuel Peter Heintzelman's journal of Texas and the Cortina War}, volume={65}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Southern History}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1999}, pages={869–870} }
 @article{crisp_1999, title={In pursuit of Herman Ehrenberg: A research adventure}, volume={102}, number={4}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1999}, pages={422–439} }
 @misc{crisp_1998, title={Ehrenberg: Goliad survivor, Old West explorer, by N. Ornish}, volume={101}, number={4}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1998}, pages={543–544} }
 @misc{crisp_1998, title={The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852}, volume={73}, number={3}, journal={New Mexico Historical Review}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1998}, pages={284–285} }
 @inbook{crisp_1997, title={Introduction}, ISBN={0890965277}, booktitle={With Santa Anna in Texas: A personal narrative of the Revolution (Rese?a y diario de la campa?a de Texas.}, publisher={College Station: Texas A & M University Press}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1997}, pages={xi-} }
 @inbook{crisp_1997, title={La semana perdida}, ISBN={0890965277}, booktitle={With Santa Anna in Texas: A personal narrative of the Revolution (Rese?a y diario de la campa?a de Texas.}, publisher={College Station: Texas A & M University Press}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1997}, pages={193–196} }
 @inbook{crisp_1997, title={With Santa Anna in Texas: A personal narrative of the revolution: introduction}, ISBN={0890965277}, booktitle={With Santa Anna in Texas: A personal narrative of the Revolution (Rese?a y diario de la campa?a de Texas.}, publisher={College Station: Texas A & M University Press}, author={Crisp, J. E.}, year={1997}, pages={xi-} }