Featured Collection: Hindsight Is 20/20

By Tonia Wood, Senior Reference Archivist

The current Featured Collection book display in the Reference Reading Room, “Hindsight Is 20/20” offers lessons from events of the past.

The end of one year and the beginning of the next is often a time for reflection and planning. “Hindsight is 20/20” is a fitting theme for the first Featured Collection of 2020. You can explore these and other questions using TSLAC library resources:

What have we as a state or nation learned from earlier wars, disasters and crises?
How have our past ideas of the future been fulfilled?

The following list of publications, many on view through January 2020 at the Lorenzo de Zavala building, room 109, is just a small sampling of what is available in our collections. Please note that some of the items are only available online.

Two U.S. government publications included in the featured collection display, “Hindsight Is 20/20.”

Click on a title to access the catalog record which contains links to online resources. To search for additional publications, check out our catalog at www.tsl.texas.gov/catalog.

Title	Author	Call number	Collection
9/11, ten years later : insights on al-Qaeda’s past & future through captured records : conference proceedings	Fenner, Lorry M.	D 5.417/2:AL 7	USD
A Look at “The end of history?”	Jensen, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Martin)	Y 3.P 31:2 H 62 [microfiche]	USD
A plea for justice : the Timothy Cole story	McKinley, Fred B.	345.73 M215p	MAIN
A raid too far : Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos	Willbanks, James H.	ZTA475.8 W663ar	TXD
Al-Qaida after ten years of war : a global perspective of successes, failures, and prospects	Cigar, Norman L.	D 214.2:AL 1	USD
Archaeology, history, and Custer’s last battle [computer file] : the Little Big Horn reexamined	Fox, Richard A.	Available online	E-BOOK
Austin, Texas, the future great manufacturing center of the South : the healthiest city in the South ; facts for the consideration of tourists, home-seekers, investors, manufacturers and merchants	Commercial Club, Austin, Tex.	976.431 C736a	MAIN
Beyond Texas through time : breaking away from past interpretations	Buenger, Walter L. (Walter Louis)	Z TA475.8 B862be	TXD
Black Reconstruction in America : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880	Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)	973.8 D852 1966	MAIN
Command decisions	Blumenson, Martin	D 114.2:D 35/987	USD
Contested empire : rethinking the Texas Revolution	Haynes, Sam W. (Sam Walter)	Z TA475.8 C767	TXD
Convicted by juries, exonerated by science : case studies in the use of DNA evidence to establish innocence after trial	Connors, Edward F.	J 28.24/3:C 76/2	USD
Cook & Peary [computer file] : the polar controversy, resolved	Bryce, Robert M.	Available online	E-BOOK
Cuatro Vientos : a reconsideration of seven prehistoric sites in the lower Rio Grande plains of south Texas, Webb County	Carpenter, Steve	A1900.7 P422 NO.3755	TXD
Custer in cyberspace [electronic resource]	Gompert, David C.	Available online	USD
Essays on the Mexican Revolution : revisionist views of the leaders	Beezley, William H.	Z UA100.8 B393E	TXD
Federal participation: HemisFair ’68	United States. Department of Commerce	917.303 H373 1968	MAIN
Houston strong : Hurricane Harvey, lessons learned and the path forward : field hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, April 9, 2018	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security	Y 4.H 75:115-56	USD
I cannot forget : imprisoned in Korea, accused at home	Moore, Johnny	Z TA475.8 M784ic	TXD
If you’d only called us sooner : a guide to tenant-landlord counseling	Wattles, Chuck W.	C2400.5 IF1	TXD
Justice without law : a reconsideration of the “Broad Equitable Powers” of the Federal Courts	United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Policy	J 1.96:L 41	USD
Lee’s mistake [electronic resource] : learning from the decision to order Pickett’s Charge	Gompert, David C.	Available online	USD
Living lessons from the New London explosion	Jackson, R. L.	614.83 J137	MAIN
Myth, memory, and massacre : the Pease River capture of Cynthia Ann Parker	Carlson, Paul Howard	Z TT422.8 C197my	TXD
O’Neil Ford on architecture	Ford, O’Neil	Z UA380.8 F754on	TXD
Out of control : lessons learned from the Superconducting Super Collider : a staff report	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations	Y 4.EN 2/3:103-S	USD
Pipe dreams [electronic resource] : greed, ego, and the death of Enron	Bryce, Robert M.	Available online	E-BOOK
Report of the high school explosion and disaster of London, Texas		614.83 H537s	MAIN
Report on postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments : together with additional and minority views	United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence	Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 15015	USD
Sixty years of NASA leadership in human space exploration : past, present, and future : hearing before the Subcommittee on Space, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, September 26, 2018	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Space, author.	Y 4.SCI 2:115-74	USD
Submarine warfare, offensive and defensive : including a discussion of the offensive torpedo system, its effects upon iron-clad ship systems, and influence upon future naval wars	Barnes, John S. (John Sanford)	623.45 B262	MAIN
Texans and war : new interpretations of the state’s military history	Mendoza, Alexander	Z TA475.8 M522te	TXD
Texas energy sector : past and future	Prozzi, Jolanda	T1311.7 R311 NO.6513-1B c.2	TXD
The 75 greatest management decisions ever made	Crainer, Stuart	Available online	E-BOOK
The federal response to Hurricane Katrina : lessons learned	United States. Executive Office of the President	PREX 1.2:K 15	USD
The future is past : regulation and reform in controlling urban land use	Stach, Patricia Burgess	Z UA150.8 F989	TXD
The senator and the sharecropper’s son : exoneration of the Brownsville soldiers	Weaver, John Downing	355.1332 W379S	MAIN
The Texas City disaster : facts and lessons	National Board of Fire Underwriters	976.4139 N213t	MAIN
There was a woman : La Llorona from folklore to popular culture	Perez, Domino Renee	Z UA380.8 P415TH	TXD
Thucydides was right : defining the future threat	Gray, Colin S.	Available online	USD
Urban Texas: past-present-future : a report	Harris, Joe B.	U1500.8 UR1	TXD
War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age	Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)	Z TA475.8 C624wa	TXD
West Fertilizer, off the grid : the problem of unidentified chemical facilities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, August 1, 2013	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies	Y 4.H 75:113-30	USD
What went wrong at Enron [electronic resource] : everyone’s guide to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history	Fusaro, Peter C.	Available online	E-BOOK
When the news went live : Dallas 1963	Huffaker, Robert	973.922 W574	MAIN

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Featured Collection: Hindsight Is 20/20

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