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Colonial America
| James E. McWilliams specializes in the colonial and early American history. His research interests center on the local economy, food preparation, and the environment. His book, tentatively titled "Food Fit for Swine": The Story of Food in Early America will be published at the end of 2004. A second book on local trade in seventeenth-century Massachusetts will be published by UVA Press in 2005. McWilliams is a contributing writer at The Texas Observer and the History News Service. Within the department he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses that include “The American Revolutionary Era” and “The Social and Intellectual History of the United States” |
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Constitutionalism
Early Republic
Antebellum America
| Victoria Bynum, a member of the Texas State history department since 1986, earned a PhD in history in from the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests center on dissent in the nineteenth-century South, with emphases on issues of race, gender, and class in the Civil War era. She is the author of numerous articles and two books: Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (University of North Carolina Press, 1992), winner of Phi Alpha Theta’s "author’s first book" award, and The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Dr. Bynum has received several important research grants, including an NEH fellowship and the Lena Lake Forrest Scholarship. She is currently working on a comparative study of three separate Civil War communities of dissent located in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas. |
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Civil War and Reconstruction
| Dwight D. Watson specializes in modern American history. His research interests center on the Texas and local history, race and law, church state relationship and the civil rights movement. His book, A Change Did Come: Racial, Social and Polictical Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990, will be published in the spring of 2005 by Texas A&M University Press. He currently working on a second book on the Social History of Lynching in Texas. Watson's first article "In the Name of Progress and Decency: The response of Houston's Civic Leadership to the 1928 Lynching of Robert Powell. " The Houston Review August 2004. Watson also won a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for his work on the Houston Police. |
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Texas History
| Jesús F. de la Teja is professor of history at Texas State University-San Marcos. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests focus on the northeastern frontier of Spanish colonial Mexico and he is the author of San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain’s Northern Frontier (1995) and co-author of Texas: Crossroads of North America (2004), a college-level survey of the state’s history. He has published in Americas: A Quarterly of Inter-American Cultural History, Historia Mexicana, Journal of the Early Republic, and Southwestern Historical Quarterly among other journals. In addition to his research activities he has served as a consultant on development of the Texas State History Museum and serves as book review editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and managing editor of Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture. |
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