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Submissions from 2023

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Review of Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales, Rolando Avila

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U.S. History as Part of a Core Curriculum, Megan Birk

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"The Veneer of Civilization Washed Off": Anti-Black Posse-Lynchings in the Twentieth-Century Rural Midwest, Brent M. S. Campney

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Teacher Voices in Writing World History Standards: Hard Lessons from Texas, David Fisher

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Arbitrators or Agitators: Catholic Clergy of the Borderlands During the Salt Wars, Jamie Starling

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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

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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

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Chapter 2 Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings, Erica Buchberger

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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

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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

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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

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Documenting Difficult Cases: A Mixed Method Analysis, Thomas Daniel Knight

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The Indian Mission of the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) Nuns: Convents, Curriculum, and Indian Women, Nilanjana Paul

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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

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Review of Dell' Elicine, Eleonora, and Céline Martin, eds. Framing Power in Visigothic Society: Discourses, Devices, and Artifacts. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. €99.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-9-46372-590-3 (hardback), Erica Buchberger

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"A White-and-Negro Environment Which Is Seldom Spotlighted" The Twilight of Jim Crow in the Postwar Urban Midwest, Brent M. S. Campney

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Police Brutality and Mexican American Families in Texas, 1945–1980, Brent M. S. Campney

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Review: The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson, Brent M. S. Campney

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“Standing in the Crater of a Volcano”: Anti-Chinese Violence and International Diplomacy in the American West, Brent M. S. Campney

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Review: ¡Viva George!: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border, by Elaine A. Peña, George T. Diaz

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“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

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Narciso Martínez: El Huracán del Valle de Sol a Sol, Manuel F. Medrano

Submissions from 2020

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Lincoln and Education, Rolando Avila and Anita Pankake

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Review of Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout and Plainsman, by Clint E. Chambers and Paul H. Carlson, Thomas A. Britten

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Review: Border Spaces: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera, edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael H. Warner., George T. Diaz

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Review of Women in Texas History, by Angela Boswell, Linda English

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Copper Stain: Asarco’s Legacy in El Paso. The Environment in Modern North America. By Elaine Hampton and Cynthia C. Ontiveros, Amy H. Hay

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Pepito and the Last Tamalada, Manuel F. Medrano

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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

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DAMIÁN FERNÁNDEZ, Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300–600 C.E. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. 328 pp., Erica Buchberger

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Gothic Identity and the ‘Othering’ of Jews in Seventh-Century Spain, Erica Buchberger

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M. ROBERTS (ED. and TRANS.), VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS, POEMS (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 46). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. xx + 910. isbn9780674974920. £19.95., Erica Buchberger

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Anti-Japanese Sentiment, International Diplomacy, and the Texas Alien Land Law of 1921, Brent M. S. Campney

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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas By Monica Munoz Martinez (review), Brent M. S. Campney

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"What we Need Here is Another Crystal City": The Mexican Civil Rights Movement in South Texas, 1963, Brent M. S. Campney

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Review of A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, George T. Diaz

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Spanish Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph and Donald E. Chipman

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Immigration, Identity, and Genealogy: A Case Study, Thomas Daniel Knight

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Famous Mexican films, Irving W. Levinson

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The Other Constitutional Convention: Border Delegates at the Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917, Irving W. Levinson

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Candid About Cinema: Gregory Nava, Manuel F. Medrano

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The Day the Shaman Came to Town, Manuel F. Medrano

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Review of Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence, by Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Jamie Starling

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The Ghosts of Mier: Violence in a Mexican Frontier Community during the Nineteenth Century, Jamie Starling

Submissions from 2018

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President Emeritus Miguel A. Nevárez: An Agent for Social Justice in Higher Education, Rolando Avila and Anita Pankake

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Review of Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands, by Janne Lahti, Thomas A. Britten

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Gothus: Konstruction und Rezeption von Gotenbildern in narrativen Schriften des merowingischen Gallien by Christian Stadermann (review), Erica Buchberger

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"A Bunch of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas, Brent M. S. Campney

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“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

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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

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Mexico's 2018 election, Irving W. Levinson

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Dia de los Muertos: Two Days in November, Manuel F. Medrano

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El Baile, Manuel F. Medrano

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From Accordion Roots to Conjunto Music: An Unlikely Journey, Manuel F. Medrano

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La Corrida De Las Corvinas, Manuel F. Medrano

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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

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Nuevo Santander The Unrealized Archaeological Potential of a “Civilian” Province in Northern New Spain, Russell K. Skowronek, Christopher L. Miller, and Roseann Bacha-Garza

Submissions from 2017

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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

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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

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Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700: From Romans to Goths and Franks, Erica Buchberger

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Gender as a Determining Factor in the Family History and Development of the McGee Family, Thomas Daniel Knight

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Early South Texas Ranchos - an Enduring Legacy, Manuel F. Medrano

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Vaqueros Del Valle: Between the past and the Future, Manuel F. Medrano

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Historiographical Perspectives of the Third Reich: Nazi Policies towards the Arab World and European Muslims, Jesus Montemayor

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Afro-Mexican Spaces and Legacies on the Lower Rio Grande, Jamie Starling

Submissions from 2016

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Romans, barbarians, and Franks in the writings of Venantius Fortunatus, Erica Buchberger

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Book review: The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border, Brent M. S. Campney

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Review: Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire. by Jason Ruiz, George T. Diaz

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Review of Leaders of the Mexican American Generation: Biographical Essays ed. by Anthony Quiroz, Harriett Denise Joseph

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David Montejano: Life on a Rollercoaster, Manuel F. Medrano

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Discovering the Plan behind the Gordian Knot New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences, Russell K. Skowronek

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Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?, Jamie Starling

Submissions from 2015

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David Nirenberg, Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), Erica Buchberger

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The Growth of Gothic Identity in Visigothic Spain: The Evidence of Textual Sources, Erica Buchberger

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“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

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Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda ed. by Linda Heidenreich and Antonia I. Castañeda (review), Karla A. Lira

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Mary Helen Berlanga - Education Advocate, Manuel F. Medrano

Submissions from 2014

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Osmanli Balkan Mirasi Ve Türk Millî Kimliğinin Oluşumu (Ottoman Balkan Heritage and the Construction of Turkish National Identity), Tamer Balci

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Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona by Mary S. Melcher (review), Linda English

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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

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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

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The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas by Nick Kotz (review), Anthony K. Knopp

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Brief history of Brazil, Irving W. Levinson

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Mexican Cuisine - From the Maya to McDonalds, Irving W. Levinson

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Mexican Revolution at age 100, Irving W. Levinson

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The Contours of a Very Special Border, Irving W. Levinson

Submissions from 2013

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Lyman P. Alden: Setting an Institutional Example, Megan Birk

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Brief History of México, Irving W. Levinson

Submissions from 2012

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The Cyprus Crisis and the Southern Flank of NATO (1960-1975), Tamer Balci

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World History in State Standards: A Research Assignment for College Juniors and Seniors, David C. Fisher

Submissions from 2011

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Dow Chemical vs. ‘Coercive Utopians’: Constructing the Contested Ground of Science and Government Regulation in 1970s America, Amy H. Hay

Submissions from 2010

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Review of John Hill for the State of Texas. By John L. Hill, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. Pp. 280. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1603440721. $35.00)., Randall Adrian

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“HOLD THE LINE”: The Defense of Jim Crow in Lawrence, Kansas, 1945–1961, Brent M. S. Campney

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The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 (review), Linda English

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What’s Wrong (and Right) with World History in Texas, David C. Fisher

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José Angel Gutierrez: An Oral History Conversation, Manuel F. Medrano

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History of Fort Brown, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

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The Rise of a Gulf Coast Legislator, Charles V. Waite

Submissions from 2009

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From Nationalization of Islam to Privatization of Nationalism: Islam and Turkish National Identity, Tamer Balci

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W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth, Brent M. S. Campney