Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution
The 48th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
University of Texas at Arlington
Daytime Lectures in the Rio Grande Ballroom
E.H. Hereford University Center
9:30 a.m.
“Quitting the Nation: The Politics of Border Crossing in Mexican Texas”
Eric Schlereth, University of Texas at Dallas
11:00 a.m.
“Heirs to a Revolution: The Anglo-Texan Rebellion as Historical Reenactment”
Sam W. Haynes, University of Texas at Arlington
1:30 p.m.
“The Mexican Intelligentsia and the Texan Revolution of 1835-36”
Will Fowler, University of St. Andrews
3:00 p.m.
“Politics and Profits: Mexican Officials and Land Speculation in Texas, 1824
1835”
Miguel Soto, UNAM - Mexico City
Evening Lecture in the Rosebud Theatre
E.H. Hereford University Center
7:30 p.m.
“Time’s Noblest Empire is the Last”: Texas Secession in the Presumed Course
of American Empire”
Amy S. Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University