I attended with Vicki Cummins the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association held in Austin from February 24 to 26, 2022. This was 126th annual meeting of this organization. This year holds a special significance for me because it marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first time that I attended the annual meeting of this group. 

This year I was on the program of the conference in two different areas. First, I chaired a session entitled "Tejanos All: Loyalists and Rebels During the First Texas War of Independence." Two distinguished scholars presented papers at that time. Jesús F. de la Teja (known to all as Frank de la Teja) is one of the most significant academic historians working in the historical era of Spanish Texas. His paper was titled: "In the Aftermath of Medina: What Rebel Property Confiscations Tell Us About Béxar, 1813-1821." Bradley Folsom, who has gained a reputation as an important scholar working in this same era, gave the paper: "Tejanos All: Loyalists and Rebels During the First Texas War of Independence." A large and enthusiastic group of Spanish Texas and Borderlands historians attended -- all of whom participated in an interesting and very satisfying question and answer session.

I also moderated an online Fellow's Session dealing with the topic "Forgetting and Remembering: Why Does Searching for an Accurate Past Provoke Backlash." The panelists were author Bryan Burrough and Professors Peniel Joseph and Monica Munoz Martinez. Click Here for a link to that program.