The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 11, July 1907 - April, 1908 Page: 247
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The Texas State Historical Association and Its Works. 247
ficient time to direct graduate investigation. In no institution in
the South today are there more than two separate profes-
sorships of history, or more than one professorship of economics.
There are very few institutions in the South which have one pro-
fessor who gives his entire time to history, and there are not more
than a half dozen who have separate professors of economics or
political science. Not as many of either, in the entire South, devote
their time exclusively to history and economics as can be found in
one great institution in the North or East; and these are com-
pelled to devote their time mainly to undergraduate teaching.
And nowhere in the South are aids to students furnished in the
way of endowed scholarships and fellowships. What chance have
Southern boys and girls? What chance is there for an early full
revelation of the truth about Southern life and deeds and motives?
Would not provision for great libraries and a stronger teaching
and research force be a more effective guarantee of historical truth
than any amount of violent protest against historical misinterpre-
tation and inaccuracy? Can Southern people, can Texas people,
be brought to see this matter in the proper light and induced to
provide the necessary support? I think they can, and I think
this Association is the most satisfactory and efficient agency for
bringing them to see it. Let us plan to have here in the near
future a great library in which Southwestern history will be prop-
erly represented and also to have a strong graduate school for re-
search and production. The University is doing what it can with
limited means and is taking advantage of Dr. Bolton's presence in
Mexico to collect important documents. The pity is that the
amount is not ten times as great as it is. The money is needed,
and needed now while expert service is available, and a great op-
portunity is here presented to some patriotic man of means.
Finally, there is one thing which this Association can do with-
out means. I have mentioned it in passing. It is the most im-
portant thing which can be done at all, and if not done, it makes
all else vain and worse than useless. It can protect and promote
everywhere freedom of historical inquiry, historical writing, and
history teaching. No nation, and no section of this or of any other
nation has a monopoly either of prejudice or of intellectual liberty
and openness of mind, or will ever have. But that fact can not
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