Dr. Donald S. Frazier is the Director of The Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, and a veteran educator with decades of experience in the college classroom. An award-winning historian, he has authored numerous books on Texas history, the American Civil War, military history, and the U.S.–Mexican borderlands.
Dr. Frazier has been deeply involved in heritage and cultural tourism projects, including consulting on the development of museums, research centers, and battlefield sites across Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, as well as projects in Mexico and Europe. His video Our Home, Our Rights: Texas and Texans in the Civil War received the Mitchell Wilder Award for Excellence in Publications and Media Design from the Texas Association of Museums.
An active advocate for historic preservation, he currently serves as President and CEO of the McWhiney History Education Group, a Texas-based educational nonprofit. His work has been recognized by the American Association for State and Local History, the Texas Historical Foundation, the Historical Society of New Mexico, and the Louisiana Historical Association. He is also a recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Gold Medal for Historic Preservation.
Dr. Frazier has held fellowships at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Edinburgh and remains in high demand as a consultant and speaker. He is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas, a scholar-director of the Texas Historical Foundation, and a member of the Alamo Museum Planning Committee. In 2021, Governor Greg Abbott appointed him to the Texas “1836 Commission.”
