Events

"From the Republic to Reconstruction: Nineteenth-Century Texas" will take place in Edinburg on October 1. Team-taught by Andrew J. Torget (University of North Texas) and Courtney Abubakar (Texas History For Teachers), the workshop will offer new assessments of the era and provide a collection of curriculum materials geared toward bringing innovative perspectives into the classroom. Topics to be covered include the Republic of Texas, the U.S-Mexico War, early statehood (1845–1860), secession and civil war (1860–1865), Reconstruction (1865–1872), and the end of Reconstruction and its aftermath (1872–1880s).