Books: Overview & Bibliography

 I am the author and/or coauthor, translator of (or contributor to) nine peer-reviewed books and two self-published books:

  • Nassau Plantation; The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation, (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009).
  • Friedrich Armand Strubberg’sFriedrichsburg; The Colony of the German Fürstenverein, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011).
  • I contributed a chapter on European immigration in Texas in the 19thcentury to a college textbook entitled Understanding Texas History. (University of Oklahoma Press, September 2014).
  • Annotated translation of Detlef Dunt’s Sojourn to Texas in 1834, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015).
  • No Hope for Heaven; No Fear of Hell: The Stafford/Townsend Feud in Colorado County, (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016).
  • Annotated translation of W.A. Trenckmann’sDie Lateiner am Possum Creek [The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek; A Texas Civil War Story], (Kerrville: State House Press, 2020).
  • Co-translator of Hermann Ehrenberg’s memoir,Inside the Texas Revolution; The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg, edited by James Crisp, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association Press, 2022).
  • With co-author William Clamurro,Duty to Serve; Duty to Conscience: The Story of two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics in Vietnam, (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2023).
  • Live Oaks and Dead Folks: Tales and Images from the Nesbitt Memorial Library Cemetery Tour, Tracy Wegenhoft author and editor, James Kearney Historical Notes and Susan Chandler, library director and archival support, (Gaithersburg, MD: Signature Book Printing, 2024).
  • C.H. Waltersdorf’s History of DeWitt County 1899 & Essays of Rudolph Kleberg, 1847-1924, translated and edited by James C. Kearney for the DeWitt County 175th Celebration.(Cuero: DeWitt County Historical Association, 2024).
  • Heinrich von Struve’s, A Life portrait, translated and annotated by James C. Kearney with J.T. Koenig, (College Station: Texas A&M Press, scheduled for release fall of 2025).

All peer-reviewed books published by university presses are available from Amazon.com or from the respective publishers. The Live Oaks and Dead Folks Cemetery Tour book is available for purchase at the Nesbitt Memorial Library in Columbus, TX. The Waltersdorf History of DeWitt County can be purchased from the DeWitt County Historical Association in Cuero, TX.