Richard B. McCaslin, joined the TSHA Staff as the Director of Publications in September 2023. He is the former TSHA Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, and has written or edited twenty books. These include Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862, which won a Tullis Award, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, which won a Laney Prize and Slatten Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer, Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas, which got a Pate Award and Bates Award, At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997, which won an Award of Merit from the Texas Philosophical Society, and Saratoga on the Cibolo: Sutherland Springs, Texas, which received a Publication Award from the San Antonio Conservation Society. A TSHA Fellow, he also has commendations from the Civil War Round Tables in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Shreveport for his academic work.
