History Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2025
Review of Texas Rangers in the Mexican-American War, by William Fox., William C. Yancey
Submissions from 2024
Review: Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas, edited by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Thomas A. Britten
Local identity in the Lives of the Fathers of Mérida: when ethnicity and religion aren’t the point, Erica Buchberger
Review: A Brick and a Bible: Black Women’s Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression, by Melissa Ford, Brent M. S. Campney
The Real Game of Thrones: The War of the Roses, 1453-1487, Gonzalo M. Flores
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology, Edward González-Tennant
Dumping in the Global Dixie: Circle of Poison and the Contamination of the Global South, Amy M. Hay
“Mi Familia Quiere Que Regrese”: Retired Latiné Immigrants’ Families’ Expectations to Return to Their Country of Origin, Helen Kiso, José Luis Collazo Jr., and Mayra L. Avila
Genealogical Ethics in the United States and the Popularization of Genealogical Research in the Digital Age, Thomas Daniel Knight
When Truth Is No Longer a Casualty of Myth: Américo Paredes and the Texas Rangers, Manuel F. Medrano
Breaking Barriers: The Women's Movement and Writings from Late Colonial Bengal, Nilanjana Paul
Review of King Fisher: The Short Life and Elusive Legend of a Texas Desperado, by Chuck Parsons and Thomas C. Bicknell, William C. Yancey
Submissions from 2023
Review of Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales, Rolando Avila
U.S. History as Part of a Core Curriculum, Megan Birk
Crafting the image of Pelayo: identity and state-building in early medieval Asturian chronicles, Erica Buchberger
Ethnicity and Imitatio in Isidore of Seville, Erica Buchberger
“Nobody Know But Jesus”: The Development of Christianity in the African American Community, Kevin. D. Butler
“Stamping Out Segregation in Kansas”: Jim Crow Practices and the Postwar Black Freedom Struggle, Brent M. S. Campney
"The Veneer of Civilization Washed Off": Anti-Black Posse-Lynchings in the Twentieth-Century Rural Midwest, Brent M. S. Campney
Review: Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935, by Brian D. Behnken., George T. Diaz
Teacher Voices in Writing World History Standards: Hard Lessons from Texas, David Fisher
Aspectos fiscales de la desamortización en el distrito de Puruándiro, Michoacán, 1851-1913, Salvador Salinas
Arbitrators or Agitators: Catholic Clergy of the Borderlands During the Salt Wars, Jamie Starling
Review of John B. Denton: The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger, by Mike Cochran, William C. Yancey
Submissions from 2022
From a Tabula Rasa to the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, Roseann Bacha-Garza, Juan L. Gonzalez, Christopher L. Miller, and Russell K. Skowronek
Chapter 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings, Erica Buchberger
Review of Interrogating the ‘Germanic’: A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. Matthias Friedrich and James M. Harland, Erica Buchberger
Review of Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas ed. by Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye, Brent M. S. Campney
Hunted Like Deer, George T. Diaz
Review of Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border ed. by Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, George T. Diaz
“Steel Wall” to Steel Bars: Historical Context for “Operation Lone Star”, George T. Diaz
Documenting Difficult Cases: A Mixed Method Analysis, Thomas Daniel Knight
La Boda Del La Hija de Teco (Teco's Daughter's Wedding), Manuel F. Medrano
La Llorona Caught in Time, Manuel F. Medrano
Rolando Hinojosa - From Belken County and Beyond, Manuel F. Medrano and Teresa Cadena
The Indian Mission of the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) Nuns: Convents, Curriculum, and Indian Women, Nilanjana Paul
Review of Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin, by Thomas O. McDonald, William C. Yancey
Submissions from 2021
Midwestern healthcare and poor farms in the late 19th century, Megan Birk, Christopher Brick, and Kariann Yokota
"A White-and-Negro Environment Which Is Seldom Spotlighted" The Twilight of Jim Crow in the Postwar Urban Midwest, Brent M. S. Campney
Forgetting and Remembering Racist Violence in Tulsa and the Great Plains, Brent M. S. Campney
Police Brutality and Mexican American Families in Texas, 1945–1980, Brent M. S. Campney
Review: The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson, Brent M. S. Campney
“Standing in the Crater of a Volcano”: Anti-Chinese Violence and International Diplomacy in the American West, Brent M. S. Campney
Review: ¡Viva George!: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border, by Elaine A. Peña, George T. Diaz
Recent studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
“Our Antient Friends . . . Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790, Thomas Daniel Knight
Narciso Martínez: El Huracán del Valle de Sol a Sol, Manuel F. Medrano
Submissions from 2020
Lincoln and Education, Rolando Avila and Anita Pankake
Review of Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout and Plainsman, by Clint E. Chambers and Paul H. Carlson, Thomas A. Britten
Review: Border Spaces: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera, edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael H. Warner., George T. Diaz
Review of Women in Texas History, by Angela Boswell, Linda English
Fresh studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
Pepito and the Last Tamalada, Manuel F. Medrano
Lithic Raw Materials in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and Northeast Mexico, Brandi Reger, Juan L. Gonzalez, and Russell K. Skowronek
Submissions from 2019
DAMIÁN FERNÁNDEZ, Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300–600 C.E. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. 328 pp., Erica Buchberger
Gothic Identity and the ‘Othering’ of Jews in Seventh-Century Spain, Erica Buchberger
Anti-Japanese Sentiment, International Diplomacy, and the Texas Alien Land Law of 1921, Brent M. S. Campney
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas By Monica Munoz Martinez (review), Brent M. S. Campney
"What we Need Here is Another Crystal City": The Mexican Civil Rights Movement in South Texas, 1963, Brent M. S. Campney
Review of A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, George T. Diaz
Spanish Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph and Donald E. Chipman
Immigration, Identity, and Genealogy: A Case Study, Thomas Daniel Knight
Famous Mexican films, Irving W. Levinson
The Other Constitutional Convention: Border Delegates at the Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917, Irving W. Levinson
Candid About Cinema: Gregory Nava, Manuel F. Medrano
The Day the Shaman Came to Town, Manuel F. Medrano
Review of Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence, by Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Jamie Starling
The Ghosts of Mier: Violence in a Mexican Frontier Community during the Nineteenth Century, Jamie Starling
Submissions from 2018
President Emeritus Miguel A. Nevárez: An Agent for Social Justice in Higher Education, Rolando Avila and Anita Pankake
Review of Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands, by Janne Lahti, Thomas A. Britten
Gothus: Konstruction und Rezeption von Gotenbildern in narrativen Schriften des merowingischen Gallien by Christian Stadermann (review), Erica Buchberger
"A Bunch of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
“The Most Turbulent and Most Traumatic Years in Recent Mexican-American History”: Police Violence and the Civil Rights Struggle in 1970s Texas, Brent M. S. Campney
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, George T. Diaz
Review of Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity. By Robert Con Davis-Undiano. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017)., Teodoro Garcia III
New studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
Mexico's 2018 election, Irving W. Levinson
Dia de los Muertos: Two Days in November, Manuel F. Medrano
El Baile, Manuel F. Medrano
From Accordion Roots to Conjunto Music: An Unlikely Journey, Manuel F. Medrano
La Corrida De Las Corvinas, Manuel F. Medrano
Site Formation Processes of Submerged Shipwrecks. MATTHEW E. KEITH (Editor), 2016. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Xi 276 Pp. $79.95 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6162-7, Russell K. Skowronek
Nuevo Santander The Unrealized Archaeological Potential of a “Civilian” Province in Northern New Spain, Russell K. Skowronek, Christopher L. Miller, and Roseann Bacha-Garza
"From the Moment I Made My Wedding Vows My Suffering Began": Calidad in the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Borderlands, Jamie Starling
Submissions from 2017
Review of Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Garden of South Texas. By Stacy B. Schaefer. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.), Mayra L. Avila
Review of The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History, by Paul Andrew Hutton, Thomas A. Britten
Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700: From Romans to Goths and Franks, Erica Buchberger
Supplementary studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
Gender as a Determining Factor in the Family History and Development of the McGee Family, Thomas Daniel Knight
Early South Texas Ranchos - an Enduring Legacy, Manuel F. Medrano
Vaqueros Del Valle: Between the past and the Future, Manuel F. Medrano
American Missionaries and the Formalization of Modern Bulgarian National Consciousness, Christopher L. Miller
Historiographical Perspectives of the Third Reich: Nazi Policies towards the Arab World and European Muslims, Jesus Montemayor
Afro-Mexican Spaces and Legacies on the Lower Rio Grande, Jamie Starling
Submissions from 2016
Romans, barbarians, and Franks in the writings of Venantius Fortunatus, Erica Buchberger
Book review: The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border, Brent M. S. Campney
