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The Center for the American Idea presents...
Texas History
A FREE workshop for middle and high school History and Government teachers.
Topics:
• Austin & Houston: Texas Founders in Action
• The Comanches in Texas
• The Buffalo Slaughter
• Two Texans Your Students Ought To Know About
• The Ejercito Mexicano (The Mexican Army) and Texas
• Lyndon Baines Johnson and Big Government
Speakers
Donald Frazier Born in
Big Spring, Texas, in 1965, Dr. Donald S. Frazier graduated with his Ph.D.
from Texas Christian University in 1992 and is currently chair and professor
in the department of history at McMurray University and executive director
of the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. He is the author of two books:
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (Texas A&M,
1995) and Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the
Texas Coast (McWhiney Foundation Press, 1996). He is also the general
editor of The U.S. and Mexico at War: Nineteenth Century Expansionism
and Conflict published in 1998 by Macmillan Library Reference. He has
been in three historical documentaries including a radio program for National
Public Radio and on television with The History Channel. Besides his duties
at McMurray and at the McWhiney Foundation, Frazier is working on two
books including a brief military history of the U.S. Civil War and a biographical
treatment of Tom Green.
Burton W. Folsom, Jr., is Chief Historian of the Center for the American Idea. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow in economic education with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught American History at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Nebraska, Northwood University, and Murray State University, where he was a tenured full professor.
Important Details:
There is no charge to attend American Idea Workshops.
Continental breakfast and lunch included.
TEKS information and useful handouts on subjects presented will be available.
Books will be available for purchase at reduced cost. MasterCard, Visa, Cash & Checks accepted.