History Faculty Publications and Presentations
Submissions from 2024
Review: Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas, edited by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Thomas A. Britten
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
"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
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
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
Documenting Difficult Cases: A Mixed Method Analysis, Thomas Daniel Knight
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
"A White-and-Negro Environment Which Is Seldom Spotlighted" The Twilight of Jim Crow in the Postwar Urban Midwest, 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
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
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
Review: Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire. by Jason Ruiz, George T. Diaz
Review of Leaders of the Mexican American Generation: Biographical Essays ed. by Anthony Quiroz, Harriett Denise Joseph
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