Graduate Program in Public History News
Public History Program Director
Dr. Lynn Denton
Office: TMH-202
Email: pd16@txstate.edu
Phone: (512)245-6196
Students obtain public history jobs :
In the past year, Texas State public history students and graduates have obtained professional positions as:
* Curator at a regional historical museum
* Director at a historic house museum
* Historian at the Texas Historic Commission
* Historian with Texas Parks and Wildlife
* Archivist for a major metropolitan newspaper
* Historian for an Austin-based cultural resource management firm
* Historian in the cultural resource division of a large engineering corporation
Public History Classes to be offered in 2006-2007 :
In fall 2006, Dr. Jeffrey Mauck will teach HIST 5371: Practices of Public History and Dr. Peter Dedek will teach HIST 5373: The Practices of Historic Preservation.
Historic Fredericksburg Guidebook Published By Graduate Public History Class :
Students in a graduate public history class taught by Dr. Gene Bourgeois and Dr. Frank de la Teja have published Fredericksburg: Guidebook to the Historic German Hill Country, a sixty-four page booklet profusely illustrated with color photographs and historical images. The first part of the booklet captures the natural beauty of the area, traces the history of Fredericksburg and the surrounding German Hill Country in Texas, and highlights the German immigration and founding of Fredericksburg during the nineteenth century, cultural legacies and festivals, and the lives of individuals, such as Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach, Amanda Estill, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Robert Penniger, John Russell “Hondo” Crouch, and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Following a series of centerfold maps, the second part of the guidebook provides details for a number of historic sites, including historical homes and “Sunday Houses,” The Pioneer Museum, courthouses, Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area, Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site, the Nimitz Hotel and The National Museum of the Pacific War, and Fort Martin Scott.
Links :
Graduate Program in Public History
Additional Program Information :
Forms:
History Department Application for Graduate Studies
Graduate College Application
Additonal Graduate Student Forms
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Contact info: Department of History, Taylor Murphy History, Room 202. Phone- 512.245.2142 / Fax- 512.245.3043