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Reception

131st Annual Meeting Welcome Reception at Frontier Texas

Breakfast

Coffee with the Camels

Panel · Session 1

Army Camels in Texas

Jan McCaleb Elliott · Doug Baum · Sierra Tervo · David Martinez

Panel · Session 2

Black Cowboys in Texas

Henry B. Crawford · Katherine Nelson Hall · Bruce Shackleford · Ronald W. Davis II, Ph.D.

Panel · Session 3

Contested Sovereignty and Memory: Native American Diplomacy and Land in Texas

Michael C. Miller · Sarah Yeager-Peck · Jonathan Fairchild · Bob O’Dell

Panel · Session 5

A Texas Jukebox, a Wink Westerner, and a Teenage Idol

Joe W. Specht · Jonathon Kimbrell · David Persails · Steve Davis

Panel · Session 6

Untold Lives in Texas and New Spain: Fresh Directions for Converso and Crypto-Jewish Historiographies

Sheldon Lippman · Valeria González, B.A. · Nancy Katz, Ph.D.

Panel · Session 7

Cowtown and Space City: Two Paths to the Modern Texas Metropolis

Michael W. Ritchie · Geoffrey Scott Connor, Ph.D. · Richard F. Selcer, Ph.D.

Panel · Session 8

Twentieth-Century Advocates for Tejanos in Legislature, Business, and the Press

Arnoldo De León, Ph.D. · Megan Miner · Dina T. López, Ph.D. · Ana Luisa Martínez-Catsam, Ph.D.

Luncheon

Women in Texas History Luncheon

Carolyn Boyd, Ph.D.

Panel · Session 9

Ghost Towns of Texas, in Memory of T. Lindsay Baker

LeAnna Schooley, Ph.D. · Golda Foster · Monte Guthrie · William V. Scott

Panel · Session 10

Oil and Water: A Regulatory History of Oilfield Waste in Texas

Jason P. Theriot, Ph.D. · Will Budke · Natalia Delgadillo · Luke Barre

Panel · Session 11

Still the Arena for Civil War: German Texan Unionists, Radical Republicans, and Reconstruction Violence

Kenneth Howell, Ph.D. · James Kearney, Ph.D. · Nicholas Roland, Ph.D. · John W. Gorman, Ph.D.

Film Screening · Session 12

Film Screening – Grit & Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas

Barbara Rosenthal

Dinner

President Elect Dinner Honoring Dolph Briscoe, IV

Dolph Briscoe IV, Ph.D.

Breakfast

Texana Collectors and Book Lovers’ Breakfast

Bruce Shackleford

Panel · Session 14

Bordering on Sainthood: The Cristero Rebellion in Texas and the U.S. Southwest

Pablo Mijangos y González, Ph.D. · Selena Aleman · Raquel Torua Padilla · Matthew Butler, Ph.D.

Panel · Session 15

Fore Please! Texas Golf History

Hon. Ken Wise · Jerome Austry · Scotty Sayers

Panel · Session 16

Law and Order in Texas’ Wild West

Alia Adkins-Derrick · Matthew Kolodoski · David A. Furlow · Trina Purcell

Panel · Session 17

The Legacy of Billie Carr - Godmother of Texas Liberals: Mentoring Women for Justice

Declan Dunne · Jennifer Carr Allmon · Rep. Senfronia Thompson · Senator Carol Alvarado

Panel · Session 18

They Call The Game Rodeo

C. J. Aragon · Sylvia Mahoney · Klacey Dean · Mary Margaret Campbell

Panel · Session 19

Forging Victory: How West Texas Helped Win World War II

Rachael McClain, Ph.D. · Mikayla Spivey · Sharon McCullar

Panel · Session 20

Reflections From the Republic

Charles D. Grear, Ph.D. · Dale Weeks, Ph.D. · Kenneth Howell, Ph.D. · Charles Swanlund

Luncheon

TSHA Fellows and Awards Luncheon

Film Screening · Session 21

Film Screening – Crosswinds: The Courageous Life of Cornelia Fort

Judy Miller

Roundtable · Session 22

State Board of Education Roundtable

Mattew Watkins · Aaron Kinsey · Tom Maynard · Audrey Young, Ph.D. · Shannon Trejo, Ph.D. · Donald Frazier, Ph.D. · Douglas Simon, Ph.D. · Stephen S. Cure · Kimberly Peña

Panel · Session 23

Follow the Money

Stephen L. Hardin, Ph.D. · Barry Hendler

Panel · Session 24

Harmony on the High Plains: Women’s Clubs and the Making of Musical Culture in West Texas, 1900-1950

Kendra DeHart, Ph.D. · Elissa Stroman, Ph.D. · Kimberly Hieb

Social

Exhibit Hall Afternoon Social

Mixer

TSHA Graduate Student Mixer

Dinner

Presidents Dinner Honoring Wes Perry

Wes Perry

Roundtable · Session 25

Challenging Modern Mythmaking in the Age of Academic Activism

Hon. Ken Wise · Richard B. McCaslin, Ph.D. · Jody E. Ginn, Ph.D. · Russell Molina · Jack D. Andersen, Ph.D. · James Bernsen · Nichole Ritchie

Film Screening · Session 27

Film Screening – The Birth & History of Western Swing

Mike Markwardt

Film Screening · Session 29

Film Screening – E. Pluribus Texas: Telling the Texas Story

Donald Frazier, Ph.D. · Ben Friberg

Panel · Session 30

TX Women’s Session

Betty Edwards, Ph.D. · Rene R. Schmidt, Ph.D. · David Petty · Kelsie Steppick

Panel · Session 31

Repatriating Texas History: TSLAC’s Efforts to Recover “Alienated” Records

Richard B. McCaslin, Ph.D. · Jelain Chubb · Hon. Ken Wise