125th Annual Meeting

February 17th – March 6th 2021

Program and Events Schedule

Wednesday 2/17/21
• All prerecorded sessions released for early viewing! Each prerecorded session will have a
live Q&A with the presenters between March 3-6. Check the schedule below for the
corresponding date and time of the live Q&A sessions.
• TSHA’s Silent Auction begins. Watch for the link to bid on over 100 lots of treasure!

Wednesday 3/3/21
Live Session Q&A’s and Events Begin
3:00pm-3:35pm Revisiting the 1855 Callahan Expedition
3:45pm-4:20pm Texas Women and the Law
4:30-5:05pm Examining Race, Gender, and War in Texas History over Two Centuries
6:00pm-7:30pm TSHA’s President-Elect Address with Dr. Patrick Cox

Thursday 3/4/21
Live Session Q&A’s and Events Continue
9:00am-9:35am Union Army Commemoration and Life in a Tarrant County Freedmen's
Community
9:00am-9:35am The AIDS Crisis in Texas
9:45am-10:20am "Moving beyond the Home": Postwar Feminism in Texas
10:30am-11:05pm American and Mexican Catholics Partner to Fight Anti-Catholic
Persecution in Mexico.
10:30am-11:05pm Oral History at the University of North Texas: A Fall 2019 Case Study
11:15pm-11:50pm Building and Defending Communities: The Roles of Print Culture and the
Courts in Queer Texan and Mexican American Expressions of Human
Agency
11:15–11:50 am Water, Water, Everywhere: Dreams and Destruction in Urban Texas
12:00pm-1:30pm Women in Texas History Documentary and Luncheon with Ellen Temple
2:00pm-2:35pm German Politics in Antebellum Texas
2:00pm-2:35pm A Sampler of Texas Folklore
2:45pm-3:20pm Reclaiming Bodies: Cultures, and Nature: Histories of Ethnic Mexican
Struggles in 20th Century Texas
3:30pm-4:05pm Black Voices in Literature: African-American Writers in Texas and the
United States.
4:15pm-4:50pm "Would a Matchbox Hold My Clothes?": When "Marginal" Genres Take
Center Stage in Texas Music
4:15pm-4:50pm Borders, Smuggling, and Revolution in the Texas-Louisiana Frontier
5:00pm-6:00pm Graduate Student Mixer
6:00pm-7:30pm Fellowship and Awards Announcement

Friday 3/5/21
Live Session Q&A’s and Events Continue
10:00am-10:45am Book Lovers Coffee with Nancy Baker Jones
11:00am-11:35am Contemporary History and Psychology in Texas: Understanding Mental
Illness Within the Black Community, 1970-2020
11:00am-11:35am "Politics of the People": A Digital Exhibit of the Maria Antonietta
Berriozábal Manuscript Collection at Our Lady of the Lake University

1:30pm-2:05pm Policing Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, Public Policy, and Power in Urban
Texas
1:30pm-2:05pm The Adelsverein: Fresh Perspectives on the Society for the Protection of
German Emigrants in Texas
2:15pm-2:50 pm Roundtable: Stephen Harrigan's Big Wonderful Thing
2:15pm-2:50 pm History through Foodways in the Texas Gulf Coast
3:00pm-3:35 pm The New Negro during the World War I Era in Texas
3:45pm-4:20 pm New Perspectives in Texas Latinx Politics
3:45pm-4:20 pm Queer Urban Spaces and the Law in Modern Texas
6:00pm Silent Auction Ends
6:30pm-8:00pm President’s Dinner with Mary Margaret McAllen

Saturday 3/6/21
Final Day of Live Session Q&A’s and Events
10:00am-10:30am Handbook of Texas Workshop
10:30am-11:05pm TBA Session (TSHA Education Programs)
11:00am-11:35am The Story Must Go On: Desegregation and COVID-19's Impact on the
Future of Oral History.
11:00am-11:35am Working-Class Migration and Action in Texas, 1855-1910
12:00pm-1:00pm Junior Historians Lunch with Lisa Berg
12:00pm-12:45pm Account-Ability in Court: From Slavery to Scandal
12:50pm-1:35pm Tracking the Texas Rangers: Historians at Work
1:45pm-2:20pm Handbook of Dallas-Fort Worth
1:45pm-2:20pm Black Women Historians in the Texas Academy: The Launch
2:30pm-3:05pm Senator Ralph W. Yarborough: Opinions and Stories from His Oral
Histories
3:15pm-3:50pm Racial Violence in Texas
3:15pm-3:50pm Highlighting Hidden History: The Waco History App
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Special, VIP Session on the History of Texas Wine, hosted by Dr. Richard
Becker of Becker Vineyards (additional registration required)