Department of History

Escaping Massa: Slaves and their Quest for Freedom in the Decade before the Civil War

Richard J. M. Blackett

Andrew Jackson Professor of History,
Vanderbilt University

Texas State University, Flowers Hall-230

Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:30-8:00 pm

In celebration of African American History Month, Richard J. M. Blackett will be giving a talk at Texas State University on African American reactions to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Professor Blackett’s talk will highlight the ways in which American slave escapes influenced the politics of slavery in the United States in the years before the Civil War. The topic is of particular interest at this time, as Americans have spent the last year celebrating the Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial and have discussed Lincoln’s emancipationist legacy in numerous venues. Professor Blackett’s work reminds us of the importance of African American actions in the debates that took place concerning slavery and emancipation in the years preceding the Civil War.

Professor Blackett, who currently serves as the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, is a prominent historian of the American abolition movement. In particular, his work has been significant in highlighting the transatlantic connections and the roles African Americans played in the movement to abolish slavery. He has written and edited numerous works, including Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (1983); Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History (1986); Thomas Morris Chester: Black Civil War Correspondent (1989); Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001); and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1999). He currently is working on a study of the ways in which communities on both sides of the North-South divide organized to support or resist enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and the ways that slaves, by escaping, influenced antebellum debates concerning slavery.

The event is sponsored by the Texas State University History Department and the Texas State Equity & Access Committee. A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk.

Eddie Durham Jazz Celebration
A concert and lecture featuring NEA Jazz Masters Joe Wilder and Dan Morgenstern.

San Marcos, TX – On February 5, the Eddie Durham Jazz Celebration will be held in Evans Auditorium at Texas State University-San Marcos. Named for jazz guitar pioneer and San Marcos native Eddie Durham, this program features Texas State student ensembles and a guest combo performing music composed, arranged, and influenced by Durham. This year’s event welcomes legendary trumpeter Joe Wilder, and noted jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern, both of whom were named “NEA Jazz Master” by the National Endowment of the Arts. This event is free, and open to students, faculty, and the general public. A part of the Hill Country Jazz Festival, the event is presented by the Department of Jazz Studies in the Texas State School of Music, and the Center for Texas Music History in the Department of History.
Joe Wilder was born in Colwyn, Pennsylvania in 1922, and his first performances took place on the radio program, "Parisian Tailor's Colored Kiddies of the Air," backed up by such illustrious bands as Duke Ellington's and Louis Armstrong's. He joined his first touring big band, Les Hite's band, in 1941. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Wilder talents were featured in the orchestras of Jimmie Lunceford, Herbie Fields, Sam Donahue, Lucky Millinder, Noble Sissle, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie. In addition to a successful solo recording career, he became a favorite with vocalists including Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Johnny Mathis, Harry Belafonte, Eileen Farrell, Tony Bennett, and many others.
Wilder returned to school in the 1950s, earning a bachelor's degree at the Manhattan School of Music where he was also principal trumpet with the school's symphony orchestra under conductor Jonel Perlea. At that time, he performed on several occasions with the New York Philharmonic under Andre Kostolanitz and Pierre Boulez. He is the only surviving member of the Count Basie All-Star Orchestra that appeared in the classic 1959 film The Sound of Jazz.
Dan Morgenstern is a Grammy-winning jazz writer and archivist. Born in Germany, he moved to the United States in 1947 – a vibrant era for jazz music. After attending Brandeis University, he launched his career as a jazz music journalist in 1958. He went on to write and edit for some of the premier jazz publications in America, including Metronome, Jazz, and Down Beat. He is the author of the books Jazz People and Living with Jazz. In 1976 he was named director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, where he helped build a world-class collection of jazz documents, recordings, and memorabilia. Morgenstern is widely known as a prolific writer of comprehensive, authoritative liner notes, a sideline that has garnered him seven Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes since 1973.

Eddie Durham was born in San Marcos, Texas, on August 19, 1906, and died on March 6, 1987. A prolific composer, arranger, and instrumentalist, Durham is widely credited with being a pioneer of amplified guitar, influencing fellow Texan Charlie Christian, who became one of the most important guitarists in jazz history. Durham worked with iconic Swing Era bands including the Blue Devils, Bennie Moten, Count Basie, and Jimmie Lunceford. The tunes Durham composed or arranged for these bands include such classics as "Moten Swing," "Swinging the Blues," "Topsy," "One O'Clock Jump," "Jumpin' at the Woodside" In addition, he arranged music for Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller, including one of Miller's greatest and most famous hits, "In the Mood." For more information: www.EddieDurhamJazz.webs.com

Eddie Durham Celebration
Featuring Joe Wilder, Dan Morgenstern, and the Texas State Jazz Ensemble
7:00 PM, Friday, February 5, 2009
Evans Auditorium, Texas State University – San Marcos
Admission is free, but seating is limited

For more information, call 512-245-2185

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Dr. Roger J. Spiller will present the 2009 Taylor Lecture, “Military History: A Manual for Future Wars,” at 3 p.m. on Monday Nov. 2, 2009, in Flowers 230. The lecture will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.

Dr. Spiller received Texas State’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1998, at the centennial celebration of the university. He is the author and co-author of many books and numerous articles and served as advisory editor of American Heritage magazine. His most recent book, An Instinct for War published by the Harvard University Press in 2007, is the winner of many national awards and his earlier multi-volume Encyclopedia of American Military Biography received the American Library Association’s award for the best reference work of the year.

Before his retirement, Dr. Spiller held the George C. Marshall Chair of Military History at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. This past year he also held the Distinguished Professorship of Military History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A founder of the Combat Studies Institute at the USCGSC, he received the medal for meritorious civilian service from the U.S. Department of Defense. Additionally, he is an advisor to Ken Burns’s award winning documentary on World War II.

The Taylor Lecture, the oldest at Texas State, is named for James Taylor, who served as director of the division of the Social Sciences at what was then Southwest Texas State for almost twenty years until his death in 1962. In the last year of his life, his colleagues inaugurated the Taylor Lecture to honor his long service to the University and to serve as a memorial to his life-long dedication to teaching and to the discipline of history.

Come have all your questions about History Graduate School answered by Graduate Professors and Students.

Tuesday, Oct. 20 5-6 pm with a reception to follow TMH 101

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In 2009, The Center for Texas Music History won national awards for two of its programs.

The Center’s new PBS series, Texas Music Café, won a bronze “Telly Award” for the show’s very first episode, “Cheatham Street Warehouse Class of ’87.” Since 1978, the New York-based Telly Awards have been presented for excellence in non-commercial television programming. The 30th Annual Telly Awards, for which Texas Music Café won, included 14,000 entries from around the world. Texas Music Café is broadcast on dozens of PBS affiliates throughout North America. Please check local listings to determine whether it is available in your area.

Also, the second book in the Center’s new John & Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Alan Govenar’s Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound, won an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from The Association for Recorded Sound Collections. The Dickson Series, a collaborative effort involving the Center for Texas Music History and Texas A&M University Press, publishes approximately one book each year on Texas music history.

• Dr. Guadalupe San Miguel, Professor of History at the University of Houston, on “The post-1960 Struggles for Educational Equality and Pluralism in Texas.”
   
• Dr. Carlos Blanton, Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University, on “The Search for Educational Access and Equity: Mexican Americans and the Bilingual Tradition of Texas.”
   
• Dr. Gene Preuss, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston, on “Delgado v. Bastrop: Its Role in Mexican-American Education and History.”

Frank de la Teja, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Texas State University, was awarded the "Medalla de Acero al Mérito Histórico, Capitán Alonso de León, en el ámbito Internacional" (Captain Alonso de León Medal for Historical Merit, International Category) from the Historical, Geographical, and Statistical Society of Nuevo León. The medal is given in three categories each year to individuals at the international, national, and local levels who have made significant contributions to the study of Mexican history. Alonso de León was a seventeenth century explorer, governor, and author on the exploration of Nuevo León and what is today northeastern Mexico. The award was presented on May 23, 2009, at a ceremony in Monterrey, Nuevo León, marking the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Sociedad Nuevoleonesa de Historia, Geografía y Estadística.

Prof. Light Cummins, Guy M. Bryan, Jr., Professor of American History at Austin College in Sherman Texas was sworn in on Tuesday, May 26, 2009, as the second State Historian of Texas. He succeeds Department of History Chairman Dr. Frank de la Teja whose two year term inaugurated the position in May 2007.

Dr. Cummins earned a Bachelor of Education degree and a Master of Arts in History at what was then Southwest Texas State University, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in history from Tulane University in 1977. Soon after he joined the Department of History at Austin College, where he has taught and served a decade-long stint as chair since 1978.

A prolific writer on the early history of the region, with six scholarly books and textbooks on the history of Texas, Louisiana, the Lower Mississippi Valley, and the United States, Dr. Cummins has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters. The quality of his scholarship is evident in the large number of prizes, grants, and fellowships that he has received, including from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Louisiana Historical Association. He has also received recognition from the government of Spain and in 2007 Texas State honored him with an Alumni Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and presently serves on its board of director.

Dr. Cummins’ interests in the history of Texas and its peoples extend well beyond his purely scholarly pursuits. He has worked on numerous projects with various public entities to promote the public’s better understanding of the state’s history and has worked to foster better history education for all Texans. For instance, he founded and co-directs the Austin College Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies, which includes a curricular major, administers a summer institute for high school students, sponsors collaborative student/faculty research projects, and provides student scholarships.
 

Kathy Faz, a graduate student in the Department of History working on her an M.A. with a concentration in Public History, has been selected to be one of fifteen mid-career and graduate students from among a national pool of candidates to participate in the 2009 Smithsonian Latino Center’s Latino Museum Studies Program. The four-week program includes panel sessions, lectures, workshops, and behind the scenes access to Smithsonian collections and was established to enhance leadership and professional excellence in the representation and interpretation of Latino history, art, and culture. Fellows in the program also have an opportunity to work with Smithsonian staff on designated projects and contribute to current exhibitions, programs, and research initiatives in progress at the institution. The fellowship includes travel and housing in the Washington D.C. area for the length of the program, which runs from July 12 to August 7, 2009.

James E. McWilliams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at Texas State University-San Marcos and an Associate Fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, is the 2009 recipient of the $50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities from The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The award, which recognizes an emerging leader in the humanities, will be presented at The Dallas Institute’s 2009 Hiett Prize Gala on Tuesday, April 28, at the Dallas Museum of Art. Stephen Sondheim, award-winning composer and lyricist, will deliver the keynote address.

The Hiett Prize is among the nation’s most prestigious honors in the humanities. The $50,000 annual award was created by The Dallas Institute in 2004 in collaboration with philanthropist Kim Hiett Jordan to recognize a person in the early stages of a career “whose work promises to advance the way we think and live.”

Dr. McWilliams focuses on American history, specializing in environmental, agricultural, and economic history. His books include “A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America,” “Building the Bay Colony: Economy and Society in Early Massachusetts,” and “American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT.” In addition to writing academic books, McWilliams publishes frequently in the popular press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, and is a contributing writer at The Texas Observer. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled, “Just Food: How Locavores Endanger the Future of Food and How We Truly Eat Ethically,” due out this summer. This project explores the viability of achieving a sustainable global diet for a world population expected to reach 8.9 billion by 2050.

In 2001, Dr. McWilliams won the Whitehall Prize in Colonial History, and in 2004 was honored with an AltWeekly Award for arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Georgetown University (1991), a Master of Education from Harvard University (1994), a Master of Arts in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin (1996), and a doctorate in history from The Johns Hopkins University (2001). He lives in Austin with his wife, Leila Kempner, and two children.

“James McWilliams is an excellent representative of the Hiett Prize’s purpose, which is to recognize and reward distinctive work in the humanities that exhibits both the highest levels of scholarship and relevance to the lived world,” said J. Larry Allums Ph.D., executive director of The Dallas Institute.

The selection process for the winner is a rigorous six-month procedure. Applicants from across the U.S. are initially screened, undergo a second round of evaluation and elimination, and are judged ultimately by a panel of eminent humanities professionals in a third and final stage. Finalist judges for the 2009 Hiett Prize were: Mary Ann Caws, Comparative Literature, The City University of New York; Marjorie Garber, English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University; and Sir Neil MacCormick, Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh.

Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of The City University of New York. Her many areas of interest in twentieth-century avant-garde literature and art include Surrealism, poets René Char and André Breton, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, and artists Robert Motherwell, Joseph Cornell, and Pablo Picasso. Conceptually, one of her primary themes has been the relationship between image and text.

Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is also Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. She is senior Trustee of the English Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and served until recently as the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

MacCormick is Professor Emeritus of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations 1972-2008; Leverhulme Research Professor 1997-1999, and since 2004; Dean of Law Faculty, 1973-1976, 1985-1988; MEP for Scotland 1999-2004; Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence, Balliol College Oxford 1967-1972; and Lecturer in Jurisprudence, St. Andrews University (Queen's College Dundee) 1965-1967.

Finalists for the 2009 Hiett Prize were Mark Oppenheimer and Tillman Nechtman. Oppenheimer holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University and has taught at Wellesley, Yale, New York University, Stanford, and other schools. He is author of “Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America” and “Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.” He currently writes for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. He is working on a book that seeks to answer the question “What makes a neighborhood work?” by applying urban studies principles to the block on which he and his family live in New Haven, Connecticut. Nectman received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. In his present work, he emphasizes the “bigness of local history” by focusing on the Battles of Saratoga during the American Revolution as occurrences that upon investigation reveal the impact of the part upon the whole—events that highlight the ways in which local history has always been global history. His collaborative efforts with the National Park Service and the community of Saratoga Springs indicate his belief in building bridges between scholars and the communities in which they live.

ABOUT THE 2009 HIETT PRIZE GALA
Stephen Sondheim, award-winning composer and lyricist will deliver the keynote address at The Dallas Institute’s 2009 Hiett Prize Gala on Tuesday, April 28, at the Dallas Museum of Art. WFAA-TV/Channel 8 film critic Gary Cogill is master of ceremonies for the 2009 event. Hiett Gala chair is Laurie-Jo Straty. Honorary chair is Roger Horchow. The evening begins at 6 p.m. with cocktails in the Atrium; the keynote by Stephen Sondheim and presentation of the Hiett Prize are at 7 p.m. in Horchow Auditorium; and dinner under the stars follows at 8:15 p.m. in the Sculpture Garden. Sponsorship packages are available at the following levels: $20,000 Benefactor, $15,000 Underwriter, $10,000 Patron, and $5,000 Friend. For tickets and information, please call (214) 871-2440.

PREVIOUS EVENTS:
2005 Hiett Winner - Brad Gregory, Notre Dame University; Keynote Speaker - David McCullough

2006 Hiett Winner - Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University; Keynote Speaker - James Lehrer

2007 Hiett Winner - Tiya Alicia Miles, University of Michigan; Keynote Speaker - Ken Burns

2008 Hiett Winner - David Greenberg, Rutgers University; Keynote Speaker - David Mamet

ABOUT THE DALLAS INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization with a 20-member Board of Directors comprised of community leaders. Created in 1980, The Dallas Institute is a center for creative and intellectual exchange, providing enriching programs for the public that are grounded in the wisdom of the humanities, laying the foundation for Dallas to realize its full potential for cultural excellence. The Dallas Institute is located at 2719 Routh St., Dallas, Texas 75201. For information, call (214) 871-2440, or visit www.DallasInstitute.org. For media requests, contact Jessica Young at jyoung@fortepr.com or (214) 890-7912.
 

The Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta are pleased to be co-sponsoring “The Adventure of the Apollo Moon Landings,” a lecture given by General Charles Duke, Jr. (Ret) on Tuesday, April 7th at 6:30 pm in Flowers 341. General Duke is a retired astronaut who served as the lunar module pilot during the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972. He is also the author of the book, Moonwalker. The lecture is made possible by an award from the University Lecturers Committee. Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

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Six Texas State students participated in the Collegiate Model Arab League exercise that took place at the University of St. Thomas last Friday, February 6, 2009. Organized by the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, this is an annual event in which university students represent Arab states as they compete for individual and team awards in five categories: Joint Defense Council, Council on Palestinian Affairs, Council of Arab Social Affairs Ministers, Council on Political Affairs, and Council of Arab Environmental Affairs Ministers. In this picture (from right to left), History Professor Dr. Elizabeth Bishop, and students Jennifer Cooke, Corey Conant, Alexis Garcia, Jenevieve Hazel, and Andrew Nelson congratulate keynote speaker Ambassador Clovis Maksoud (Kristopher John Floyd is not pictured).

The Department of History, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, and the Hispanic Policy Network are pleased to be co-sponsoring “LBJ and the Felix Longoria Controversy: Loyalty, Patriotism, Honor, Courage, and Pragmatism,” a lecture given by Dr. Patrick Carroll on Monday, February 16th at 6:30 pm in Taylor Murphy 101. Dr. Carroll is professor of history at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, and his book, Felix Longoria’s Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism, will be available for sale. A reception hosted by the Hispanic Policy Network will follow the lecture.

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The Public History Program, Department of History is pleased to be co-sponsoring the Texas Historical Commission (THC) Visionaries in Preservation Symposium Jan. 14-15 here in Taylor Murphy Hall. THC has arranged for News8 Austin to do live shots from the Taylor Murphy courtyard at 6 am on Wednesday morning.

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Graduating History M.A. student Roque Planas has been named a Senator Gregory Luna Fellow of the Texas Senate Hispanic Research Council. He will serve as a legislative aide for a Texas senator during the 81st session (January-May 2009).  His duties will include bill tracking and drafting legislative research summaries, constituent correspondence, floor statements, articles, and press releases.  Scholars and fellows in the program also design and implement a community service project. Roque recently completed his thesis, “The Politics of Crime, the Criminality of Politics: State Violence in Argentina, 1930-1938.” Soon after arriving in the History Graduate program here at Texas State he served as a research assistant on a video documentary project, “Mexican American Legislative Caucus: The Texas Struggle for Equality and Opportunity,” for which Drs. Jaime Chahin, Dean of the College of Applied Arts, and Frank de la Teja, Chairman of the Department of History, served as principal investigators. Roque spent this past summer in Argentina doing research for his thesis. Currently, Roque is applying to graduate programs in History and Journalism around the country.

The Center for Texas Music History in the History Department at Texas State University is pleased to announce the publication of the second book in its new series, The John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, published in collaboration with Texas A&M University Press.

Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound, by noted Texas music historian Alan Govenar, is the most comprehensive study to date on the history of blues in the Southwest. Texas Blues presents a detailed discussion of the development of blues music in the Lone Star State, and it looks at both famous and not-so-famous Texas artists, including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Eddie Durham, Big Mama Thornton, Victoria Spivey, T-Bone Walker, Janis Joplin, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Texas Blues also examines the ways in which the blues cross-pollinated with other ethnic musical genres in the Lone Star State, including jazz, conjunto, country, and zydeco, to help create new musical sub-genres that give Texas a unique and dynamic musical environment.

Texas Blues is available through Texas A&M University Press, at most major book stores, and through several online book vendors, including Amazon.com.

The John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, which already has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to publish a new book each year devoted to the study of Texas music history.

"Challenges of Democratization in North Africa and the Middle East" is the topic Dr. Abdelilah al-Abdi has chosen for his visit to Texas State University next week under the Fulbright Occasional Lecturer program. He will offer a public lecture at 6:30 p.m Wednesday, November 19, in Taylor Murphy 101. Originally from the Department of Political Science at Mohamed V University (Rabat, Morocco), since August, he has been scholar-in-residence specializing in Comparative Government and International Relations at Radford University in Radford VA. Sponsors for Professor al-Abdi's visit to TSU include the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the Provost's Office, and the Bilateral US Arab-Chamber of Commerce.

Congratulations to Dr. Jimmy McWilliams on the publication of American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, which has just appeared from Columbia University Press. American Pests is Dr. McWilliam's third book and addresses a topic that, given recent environmental circumstances, is more than just a colorful story of often misguided efforts of well-intentioned people to conquor nature. The link to Columbia Press will also allow you to view a short video introduction to the bok by Dr. McWilliams.

In 2008 the university continued to recognize the outstanding teaching contributions of History faculty by naming Dr. Angela Murphy with the President’s Excellence in Teaching award at the lecturer/assistant professor level. Dr. Murphy, who holds the Ph.D. from the University of Houston, in only her second year at Texas State, has already demonstrated the qualities of a master teacher, engaging both undergraduate and graduate students with her rigorous but accessible style and earning their admiration. Dr. Murphy specializes in mid-nineteenth century social history and has developed new courses at the graduate level, including one on historical memory. For more information on Dr. Murphy, visit www.txstate.edu/history/people/murphy/index.htm.

The Smithsonian Institution has selected three books that the Center for Texas Music History was directly involved in producing for the upcoming exhibit on Texas history and culture at the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, June 25 – July 6, 2008. The History of Texas Music, by CTMH director Gary Hartman, is the first in the Center's new John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music with Texas A&M University Press. The Handbook of Texas Music, produced by the Texas State Historical Association, contains the work of Texas State University students and faculty, who researched and wrote approximately one-third of the entries. Dr. Hartman wrote the first chapter of The Roots of Texas Music, edited by Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht for Texas A&M University Press. For more information on the center, visit www.txstate.edu/ctmh.