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Texas history

The Author’s Corner with Kyle B. Carpenter

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 23, 2024

Kyle B. Carpenter is Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. This interview is based on his new book, Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881 (University of North Texas […]

What is going on in the Texas State Historical Association?

John Fea   |  May 17, 2023

If you examine its website, the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) looks like any other state historical society. It is led by historians with Ph.Ds from reputable institutions. President Nancy Baker Jones is an accomplished public historian with a Ph.D […]

The Author’s Corner with Thomas Alter

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 10, 2022

Thomas Alter is Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. This interview is based on his new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (University of Illinois Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]

Heather Cox Richardson on rewriting history

John Fea   |  July 27, 2021

Earlier this month I wrote a long post on complexity and revisionism in the doing of history. Over at Milwaukee Independent, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the importance of rewriting history. She writes in the context of a recent revisionist […]

A new Battle of the Alamo?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford recently published Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. It has a provocative title and an even more provocative argument: Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas […]

Juneteenth is the answer to Frederick Douglass’s question: “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”

John Fea   |  June 19, 2021

Here is historian Peniel Joseph at CNN: Juneteenth commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the end of slavery by a Union major general in Texas. Long celebrated in Black communities from coast to coast, it has been a Texas state holiday […]