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Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas

  The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land (Basic, 2022), historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those […]

Red, Blue, and Brown: Tejano History, Politics, and the 2022 Election

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas

  Election seasons have always been filled with political and partisan appeals to various groups of people: special interest groups, religious organizations, ethnic voting blocs, and more. One group which has received a dramatic increase in political and journalistic attention over the last few years are Tejanos: Texans of Mexican or Hispanic descent. Much digital […]

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H.W. Bush’s Post-Presidency

 Jean Becker, President George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff (1994-2018), in conversation with Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and Chris Buckley, American author and political satirist. When Jean Becker closed up President Bush’s Houston office in 2019 after his death, she told the Houston Chronicle, “What a pleasure. What a journey.” In The Man […]