The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 42, July 1938 - April, 1939 Page: 390
446 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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390 Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Quarterly is the official publication of the Texas State Historical
Association. This association seeks its general membership almost
entirely in Texas and has never made any serious attempt to
secure individual members in the other states of the so-called
Southwest. Most, if not all, of the other states of the Southwest
have publications of their own, which perform for their respective
states the same function that the Quarterly does for Texas. It
is quite improbable that any citizen of a neighboring state, even the
most ardent reader of the Quarterly, considers that his state
has any interest in or much obligation to the organ of the Texas
State Historical Association. Finally, a brief examination of
the contents of the Quarterly during the forty-two years of its
existence will reveal that an overwhelming proportion of the
articles have been written by Texas people and about Texas sub-
jects. If the Quarterly paints the Southwest in its pages, it does
it with great and natural partiality, putting three or four coats
on Texas for one very thin one on the rest of that region. It
would seem, therefore, that the term southwestern is something
of a misnomer and that the Quarterly is essentially a Texas publi-
cation, one which confines itself primarily, though by no means
exclusively, to Texas material. To say the least, Texas is the
Quarterly's only exclusive domain.
Surely the domain is large enough and the material rich enough
to satisfy all but the most ambitious. Let us turn again to the
material which properly belongs in the pages of the Quarterly.
There is a vast body of it, the historical nature of which can
occasion no dispute. Almost anything pertaining to the Spanish
activities in Texas and the Southwest, the migration of the Ameri-
cans, the Texas revolution and Texas' part in later wars, and all
political activity furnish topics for historical writers. It is when
we come to the period since the Civil War that real difficulties
show themselves. We have then the progress of agriculture, the
rapid growth and expansion of the cattle business, and numerous
other forms of commercial and industrial activity. Then there is
the work of the churches, schools, fraternal organizations, patriotic
societies, the labor movement, and finally there are the homely
stories of the daily lives of the multitude who have lived and died
without notoriety or renown. Do all these deserve some place in
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 42, July 1938 - April, 1939, periodical, 1939; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101107/m1/419/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.