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Department of History

New Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History Dr. Andrew Graybill published an article in Texas Monthly.

Dr. Andrew Graybill, TCU’s new Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History, recently published an article in Texas Monthly exploring the history of German immigration to Texas and what that experience can teach us today. In “Lessons From Texas German Immigration,” Graybill draws on Texas history to offer perspective on immigration, identity, and the ways newcomers have helped shape the state. We’re excited to welcome Dr. Graybill to TCU and to see his scholarship reaching readers across Texas and beyond. (continue reading)

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Recent Publications

  • “Sandoz, Webb, and the Environment as Actor in Slogum House”

    Andrew R. Graybill

    https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496249302/sandoz-studies-volume-3/

  • People of the Wheat: Cultivation and Culture in North Texas.

    Rebecca Sharpless

  • Of Plants and Providence: Assessing Drugs, Difference, and Divine Will in Timothy Bright’s The Sufficiencie of English Medicines (1580)

    Melissa Reynolds

    https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly

  • Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama

    Peter Szok

    https://www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Beauty-Indigenous-Caribbean-Studies/dp/1496858875/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MSfSIV48Wd1Fxld72zv618wCSpH9mkB-bOqf7wUwUOgzcF-ToG7Q3ODWRxtFAPn8.0porP-CrfxpTg64und__8S1-_A8nw2jYJri8VUxr_tk&qid=1758738964&sr=1-2