Walter L. Buenger
American historian
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- PhD History University of Texas at Austin
- Masters History University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors History University of Texas at Austin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Louis Buenger is a historian of Texas and the American South and, since 2017, is a professor of history at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Background Buenger received all three of his degrees, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Ph.D., from Rice University in Houston in 1973, 1977, and 1979, respectively. Immediately thereafter at the age of twenty-eight, he joined the history faculty at Texas A&M University. He became head of the History department in 2002 and remained there until 2017 when he accepted the position of Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History at the University of Texas at Austin. Simultaneously, he became the Chief Historian at the Texas State Historical Association , and became editor of the TSHA journal Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Walter L. Buenger's Published Works
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- Secession and the Union in Texas (1984) (32)
- Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations. (1992) (20)
- Oil in Texas : the gusher age, 1895-1945 (2003) (17)
- The Matamoros trade : Confederate commerce, diplomacy, and intrigue (1983) (14)
- But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986 (1986) (10)
- Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations (2011) (7)
- Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat (2005) (5)
- Secession Revisited: The Texas Experience (2012) (4)
- Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (2018) (4)
- The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston (2001) (3)
- The Civil War Letters of General Frank "Bull" Paxton, CSA, A Lieutenant of Lee & Jackson (1978) (2)
- Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth (1999) (2)
- STILLING THE VOICE OF REASON: TEXANS AND THE UNION, 1854-1861 (1979) (2)
- Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession (1988) (2)
- Between Community and Corporation: The Southern Roots of Jesse H. Jones the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1990) (2)
- Texas Houses Built by the Book: The Use of Published Designs, 1850–1925 (2001) (1)
- Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821–1920. By Lee L. Willis. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 209. $24.95.) (2014) (1)
- The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916, and: The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP (review) (2006) (1)
- Making Sense of Texas and Its History (2017) (1)
- Sam Houston and the American Southwest@@@Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas@@@Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston (1994) (0)
- Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association By Lawrence Goodwyn · Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. xiii + 284 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0876111584 (1998) (0)
- Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South (review) (2011) (0)
- The Texas State Historical Association and the Future of the Past (2010) (0)
- Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford (review) (2021) (0)
- Preserving German Texan Identity: Reminiscences of William A. Trenckmann, 1859-1935 (2018) (0)
- Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit by Susannah J. Ural (review) (2019) (0)
- Editor's Note (1997) (0)
- Editor's Note (2021) (0)
- Linda English. By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory. (2013) (0)
- Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico (2015) (0)
- A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies. By Michael R. Adamson. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2013. xxv + 470 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-55753-634-1 (2015) (0)
- Beyond Big Tex: The Past, Present, and Future of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2022) (0)
- Insiders, Outsiders: Toward a New History of Southern Thought ed. by Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe (review) (2022) (0)
- San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. By Judith Berg Sobré. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xiv, 264 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58544-222-4.) (2004) (0)
- A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (review) (2004) (0)
- Jesse Jones (2004) (0)
- Affairs of the Association (2006) (0)
- Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching (2020) (0)
- The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War (review) (2006) (0)
- George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas (2021) (0)
- Nox Reduction on Char using Microwaves Carolynn (1994) (0)
- Texas and the History of American Foreign Policy (2012) (0)
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