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This fifth
generation Texan was professor of History at Texas A&M
University, where he taught for more than twenty-five years. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of North Texas and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. A former president of the Texas State Historical Association as well as a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of that organization, Dr. Calvert wrote or edited numerous books and articles, most of them on Texas history. |
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Professor De León is C. J. "Red" Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where he has taught since 1973. He is the author of several works on Texas history and Mexican American history, among them The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 (1982, 1997); Mexican Americans in Texas (1993, 1999); Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 (2002); and Tejano Epic: Essays in Honor of Félix D. Almaráz, Jr. (2005). With Ricardo Griswold del Castillo, he has written North to Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (1996, 1997, 2006).
His numerous awards and distinctions include selection as Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and membership in the Texas Institute of Letters. |
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Professor Cantrell received his B.B.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. from Texas A&M
University. He has taught at Sam Houston State University, Hardin-Simmons and the University of North Texas. He is now Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University. He has also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
His has published numerous books and articles on Texas History, including Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas (1999) and Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1913 (2001). His works have received the Coral Horton Tullis Award, the H. Bailey Carroll Award, the T. R. Fehrenbach Award, the Presidio La Bahia Award, the Summerfield G. Roberts Award, the Miss Ima Hogg Award, the Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award, and the AASLH Award of Merit.
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