February 6, 2003

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Texas A&M University at Galveston begins its Spring 2003 lecture series entitled “The Texas Revolution” on February 12 with a speech on the Texas Revolution by T. R. Fehrenbach.

Best known for his one-volume history of Texas, which was later made into a PBS mini-series, Fehrenbach has published 18 nonfiction books, mainly on historical subjects.  

These include This Kind of War (1963, 2000), considered the classic military history of the Korean Conflict and used by U.S. ground forces for officer instruction; Lone Star (1968, new ed. 1999) the most widely read history of Texas and basis for the 1986 PBS mini-series; Fire and Blood (1973, 1996), a history of Mexico; Comanches, The Destruction of a People (1974, 1995); and Texas: A Salute from Above (1985), a photographic essay of the state.  He has recently contributed to Prentice-Hall’s new 7^th grade Texas history textbook approved by the Texas Board of Education in 2002.  

Five other speeches are scheduled in the series:
 - on February 19, Paul Lack will speak on “Slavery and the Texas Revolution”;
 - on March 5, Linda Hudson will speak on “Women and the Texas Revolution”;
 - on March 19, Frank de la Teja will speak on “Juan Seguin and the Texas Revolution”;
 - on March 26, Gregg Cantrell will speak on “Stephen F. Austin”; and
 - on April 9, Archie McDonald will speak on “William B. Travis and the Alamo”.

All lectures in the series are presented by Texas A&M University at Galveston and will be held at the Rosenberg Library located at 2310 Sealy in Galveston, Texas at 7:00 p.m.  This lectures series is made possible in part by grants from the Texas Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Trube Foundation, the Galveston Historical Foundation, and the Friends of the Rosenberg Library.