Let's begin a chat about women in Texas history

I ask my students toward the end of each semester which Texas women, who are not already in the general textbooks about Texas history, they would like to read about. Perhaps you would like to join this discussion with me--add a comment below and tell me which Texas women you would like to read about in future Texas history books and why you think they are that important. Do you concur with any of the student choices?

Here are the most frequently listed names from my students over the years: Eleanor Brackenridge, Bessie Coleman, Wilhelmina Delco, Sarah T. Hughes, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Louise Raggio, Lorene Rogers, Hilda Tagle, Hortense Ward, Edith Eunice Wilmans. What do you think about them? See my Post below on Firsts for Texas Women.

The following individual Texas women are already included in the textbook I use for my junior-level class on Texas history and as a reference book for my senior-level class on Women in Texas History: (Calvert, Robert A., Arnoldo DeLeon, and Gregg Cantrell. The History of Texas. 4th ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007): Maria de Agreda, Jessie Daniel Ames, Annie Webb Blanton, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Linda Darnell, Susannah Dickinson, Dixie Chicks, Elizabeth York Enstam, Frances "Sissy." Farenthold, Miriam "Ma," Ferguson, Betty Friedan, Jovita Gonzales, Maud Cuney Hare, Sandra Haynie, Oveta Culp Hobby, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Molly Ivins, Margo Jones, Janis Joplin, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Mary Lasswell, Trini Lopez, Natalie Maines, Mary Martin, Lydia Mendoza, Cynthia Ann Parker, Anna Pennybacker, Katherine Anne Porter, Sara Estela Ramirez, Judy Rankin, Melinda Rankin, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Richards, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Scarborough, Rebecca Sharpless, Ann Sheridan, Annette Strauss, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Emma Tenayuca, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tanya Tucker, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Nina Vance, Elise Waerenskjold, Beulah "Sippie," Wallace, Julia Nott Waugh, Sarah Weddington, Lulu B. White, Kathy Whitmire, and Kathy Whitworth.