Saturday, October 13, 2012
Northridge Campus Lecture Hall, Bldg. 4000
Speakers:
Dr. Kyle Wilkison: Rural Conflict and the Human Cost of
Industrialization
Dr. Wilkison received his Ph.D fronm Vanderbilt University and
is a Professor of History at Collin College. His book, Yeomen,
Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas,
1870-1914 (Texas A&M Press, 2008), recently won four
academic awards. The East Texas Historical Association named it
the 2009 Book of the Year. The Texas State Historical
Association awarded it the Kate Broocks Bates award. The Texas
Historical Commission chose it for the prestigious T.R.
Fehrenback Book Award. The American Library Association's CHOICE
Magazine named it to its list of "Outstanding Academic Titles of
2009." The book has also received critical acclaim in the
national scholarly journals. Dr. Wilkison is descended from East
Texas small farmers and considers himself to be a displaced
rural person liviing in bemused exile in surburbia. He is only
the second generation of his family to own an automobile and the
first generation to graduate from high school.
Dr. T. Lindsay Baker: History and Place: The 1927 Stanton
Frame-Up
Dr. Baker has taught history and directed museums at several
universities across Texas and overseas. He received his Ph.D. at
Texas Tech University and has written over twenty books on the
history of Texas and the American West. He managed the Center
for the History of Engineering at Texas Tech, founded the museum
of Texas Military History at Hill College in Hillsboro, and
currently directs the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History
of Texas for Tarleton State University. Baker has written
on multiple aspects of the Texas past, from the commercial
buffalo hunts of the 1870s to lighthouses on the Gulf coast, and
is best known for his multiple books on American farm windmills.
He is the most published author at the Texas A&M University
Press. Baker's most recent book, Gangester Tour of Texas,
provides background facts on the1927 Stanton Frame-Up. It takes
the reader on a trip back in time , to t Texas where air
conditioning is unknown, where tiny banks operate in almost
every little town, and where the likes of Clyde Barrow, Joe
Newton and Machine Gun Kelly careen in old-time cars down
unpaved roads at breakneck speed.
Dr. Emilio Zamora: Texas Agrarian Rebels and the Mexican
Revolution
Dr. Zamora is a Fulbright Scholar and Professor of History at
the University of Texas at Austin. He haws authored three books,
co-edited three anthologies, assisted in the production of a
Texas history text, and published numerous scholarly articles.
Zamora has garnered six best book awards, a best article prize,
and a Fulbright Garcia-Robles fellowship in 2007-08. His latest
publications are Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in
Texas, Mexican Job Politics during World War II and Beyond
the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy
of a Generation. Zamora is the Principal Investigator of
the Tejano History Curriculum Project, a curriculum development
and implementation project sponsored by the Tejano Monument
Inc., a Fellow in the Texas State Historical Association, a
member of the Institute of Texas Letters, and a Fellow of the
Barbara White Stuart Centennial Professorship in Texas History
at the University of Texas.
