History Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2016
A history and bibliography of articles published in the UTB-UTRGV Studies in Local History series, Milo Kearney
Extra studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
David Montejano: Life on a Rollercoaster, Manuel F. Medrano
Discovering the Plan behind the Gordian Knot New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences, Russell K. Skowronek
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?, Jamie Starling
Submissions from 2015
David Nirenberg, Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), Erica Buchberger
The Growth of Gothic Identity in Visigothic Spain: The Evidence of Textual Sources, Erica Buchberger
“This Negro Elephant is Getting to be a Pretty Large Sized Animal”: White Hostility against Blacks in Indiana and the Historiography of Racist Violence in the Midwest, Brent M. S. Campney
Yet more studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and Thomas Daniel Knight
Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda ed. by Linda Heidenreich and Antonia I. Castañeda (review), Karla A. Lira
Mary Helen Berlanga - Education Advocate, Manuel F. Medrano
“He Does Not Profess, Until Today, any Religion”: Catholic Clergy and Intermarriage in Paso del Norte during the Nineteenth Century, Jamie Starling
Submissions from 2014
Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona by Mary S. Melcher (review), Linda English
Characteristics and genesis of El Sauz chert, an important prehistoric lithic resource in south Texas, Juan L. Gonzalez, James R. Hinthorne, Russell K. Skowronek, Thomas Eubanks, and Don Kumpe
Deflation Troughs, Water, and Prehistoric Occupation on the Margins of the South Texas Sand Sheet, Juan L. Gonzalez, Russell K. Skowronek, and Bobbie L. Lovett
Still more studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas by Nick Kotz (review), Anthony K. Knopp
Brief history of Brazil, Irving W. Levinson
Mexican Cuisine - From the Maya to McDonalds, Irving W. Levinson
Mexican Revolution at age 100, Irving W. Levinson
The Contours of a Very Special Border, Irving W. Levinson
Submissions from 2013
Lyman P. Alden: Setting an Institutional Example, Megan Birk
Review of Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874, Brent M. S. Campney
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion, Amy M. Hay
More studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Brief History of México, Irving W. Levinson
The National Agrarian Party and the Quest for Power: Morelos in the 1920s, Salvador Salinas
Submissions from 2012
The Cyprus Crisis and the Southern Flank of NATO (1960-1975), Tamer Balci
Review of March! The Fight for Civil Rights in a Land of Fear, Brent M. S. Campney
World History in State Standards: A Research Assignment for College Juniors and Seniors, David C. Fisher
Marked Out by the Will of Heaven to Sway the Destinies of Half the Globe:" The Peculiar Imperialism of the United States and Russia, Christopher L. Miller
Submissions from 2011
Ongoing studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Adopting the "Other": A Peculiar U.S. Orientalism in the Response to the Circassian War, 1838-1859, Christopher L. Miller
Review of A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janiero by Brodwyn Fischer (2010), Salvador Salinas
Submissions from 2010
“HOLD THE LINE”: The Defense of Jim Crow in Lawrence, Kansas, 1945–1961, Brent M. S. Campney
The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 (review), Linda English
What’s Wrong (and Right) with World History in Texas, David C. Fisher
Continuing studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
José Angel Gutierrez: An Oral History Conversation, Manuel F. Medrano
Change and Crisis: North America on the Eve of the European Invasion, Christopher L. Miller
Independence, Revolution, and Celebration in Mexico: 1810, 1910, and 2010, Brian Stauffer and Salvador Salinas
History of Fort Brown, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
The Rise of a Gulf Coast Legislator, Charles V. Waite
Submissions from 2009
From Nationalization of Islam to Privatization of Nationalism: Islam and Turkish National Identity, Tamer Balci
W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth, Brent M. S. Campney
Review of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America, Linda English
Recipe for Disaster: Motherhood and Citizenship at Love Canal, Amy M. Hay
Great Blunders?: The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the Proposed United States/Mexico Border Fence, Helmut Langerbein
Irregulars: Guerrilla and Ranchero Warfare in South Texas and Northern Mexico during the Mexican - American War, James Mills
“Oye mi canto” (“Listen to My Song”): The History and Politics of Reggaetón, Philip Samponaro
Submissions from 2008
Review of Tío Cowboy: Juan Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman., Thomas A. Britten
Don Francisco Yturria: Beginnings of a South Texas Entrepreneur, Lilia M. Garcia
Review of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, Harriett Denise Joseph
Additional studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Why Brownsville Failed to Become ‘The Next Coral Gables’, Robin Robinson
Submissions from 2007
Review of Corridos in Migrant Memory, Jose A. P. Alaniz
Review of Seldom Heard: Ranchers, Ranchos and Rumors of the South Texas Brush Country, Thomas A. Britten
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence, Brent M. S. Campney
Review of Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire, Gerhard Grytz
The United States Military Occupation of Matamoros, Mexico, 1846 - 1848, James Mills
We are not Tijuana: The Valley Protests Washington's Crackdown on Gambling, Robin Robinson
Review of The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-book of Henry O. Gusley, Charles V. Waite
Submissions from 2006
Review of Isabella Greenway, an Enterprising Woman, Thomas A. Britten
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier. By Scott Zesch (review), Thomas A. Britten
Further studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Submissions from 2005
The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios. By Jefferson Morgenthaler. (review), Gerhard Grytz
Jewish Life in the American West. Edited by Ava F. Kahn (review), Harriett Denise Joseph
Studies in Rio Grande Valley history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Vidas Ilustres (English), Clemente Rendón de la Garza, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Texas Southmost College
Nevin's History: A Novel of Texas by Jim Sanderson (review), James B. Sullivan
Submissions from 2004
The Sergeant John R. Rice Incident and the Paradox of Indian Civil Rights, Thomas A. Britten and Larry W. Burt
Brief history of Brownsville and Matamoros, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Historical Landmarks of Brownsville Part 1, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Historical Landmarks of Brownsville Part 2, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Historical Landmarks of Brownsville Part 3, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Historical Landmarks of Brownsville Part 4, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Historical Landmarks of Brownsville Part 5, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Submissions from 2001
The Creek Draft Rebellion of 1918: Wartime Hysteria and Indian-Baiting in WWI Oklahoma, Thomas A. Britten
Submissions from 2000
Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work by Hollace Ava Weiner (review), Harriett Denise Joseph
Books from 1997
Studies in Matamoros and Cameron County history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference, Anthony K. Knopp, Harriett Denise Joseph, Douglas A. Murphy, and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.)
Books from 1995
Studies in Brownsville & Matamoros history, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta
Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974, Irene Ledesma
Papers of the Bi-National Conference on the War Between Mexico and the United States, Douglas A. Murphy, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.), University of Texas at Brownsville, and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Submissions from 1994
Proceedings of the first annual Palo Alto conference, Aaron P. Mahr Yáñez, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.), Antonio N. Zavaleta, Anthony K. Knopp, Milo Kearney, Norman L. Richard, and Yolanda Gonzalez
Memorias: A West Texas Life by Salvador Guerrero and Arnoldo de León (review), Robert M. Salmon
Submissions from 1993
Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War,1846-1848 by James M. McCaffrey (review), Joseph E. Chance
Sam Perl: Mr. Friendship and Mr. Temple Beth-El of Brownsville, Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph and Sondra Shands
Living on ,the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexico Border by Robert Lee Maril (review), Robert M. Salmon
The Spanish American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Rio Arriba by Alvar W. Carlson (review), Robert M. Salmon
Submissions from 1992
Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation by Gilbert G. Gonzalez (review), Robert M. Salmon
Books from 1991
Still more studies in Brownsville history, Milo Kearney
"Stay at Home and Live with Integrity": Advice to German Emigrants to the United States from the Journeymen’s Father, Sarah C. Neitzel and Terry K. Cargill
Books from 1989
More studies in Brownsville history, Milo Kearney
