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Linda English received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in May 2005.  She taught as a lecturer at OU and the University of Northern Colorado before her current position: Associate Professor of History at UTRGV (previously UTPA)). Her research and publications focus primarily on race, class, and gender during the late nineteenth century, specifically Texas and Indian Territory.  Her articles include “Revealing Accounts: Women’s Lives and General Stores” (The Historian 2002), “Inside the General Store, Inside the Past: A Cultural Analysis of McAlester’s General Store” (The Chronicles of Oklahoma 2003) and “Recording Race: General Stores and Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest” (Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2006).  She also contributed a biographical chapter on Oscar James Dunn in Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians, titled “’That is All We Ask for—An Equal Chance:’ Oscar James Dunn, Louisiana’s First Black Lieutenant Governor,” ed. Matthew Lynch (Praeger 2012).  Her most recent publication is “Southern Reflections: Evolving Attitudes on Race and Region in Indian Territory” (Great Plains Quarterly2014).  In 2013, the University of Oklahoma Press published her book, By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory. Her current research examines the Runaway Scrape” and other aspects of the Texas Revolution through the lens of gender.  Her article, “‘Madam, you ought to be the man such times as these’”: Gendered Confrontations and the Runaway Scrape,” was recently published in American Nineteenth Century History (May 2018).

 

Recent Publications

Book:

By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

“That Very Trying Time”:  Guy Morrison Bryan Recalls the Runaway Scrape (Article accepted by Central Texas Studies: Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association; expected publication date: December 2018)

“’Madam, You Ought to be the Man Such Times as These’”: Gendered Confrontations and the Runaway Scrape” American Nineteenth Century History19, No.2, May 2018 

“Southern Reflections: Evolving Attitudes on Race and Region in Indian Territory” Great Plains Quarterly 34, No.4, Fall 2014

“’That is All We Ask for—An Equal Chance:’ Oscar James Dunn, Louisiana’s First Black Lieutenant Governor,” in Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians, ed. Matthew Lynch (Praeger Publishers, Winter 2012)

“Recording Race: General Stores and Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110, No.2, October 2006

“Inside the General Store, Inside the Past: A Cultural Analysis of McAlester’s General Store,” Chronicles of Oklahoma81, No.1, Spring 2003

“Revealing Accounts: Women’s Lives and General Stores,” The Historian64, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring and Summer 2002

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United States

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United States

Expertise by Chronology

19th century

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Gender, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Women