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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The National Archives and Records Administration, Southwest Region
and the Texas Christian University Department of History will host a con-
ference on the Southwestern United States on February 17-19, 2000.
Interdisciplinary areas include, but are not limited to agriculture, archives,
economics, engineering, environment and wildlife, geography, social-
genealogy, history, immigration, Native American, judicial, political, flood
control and water development, urban studies, art/literature and
women's studies. The conference will be held in the Clarion Hotel in
downtown Fort Worth. Please direct all correspondence relating to mat-
ters concerning the conference to: Clayton Brown, Department of
History, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 297260, Fort Worth 76129,
telephone 817/257-7288, e-mail d.c.brown@tcu.edu, fax 817/257-5650.
The National Park Service will co-sponsor the first Texas Forum on the
Underground Railroad with the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in col-
laboration with Talking Back Living History Association. "Blazing Trails to
Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Texas" will be held in Huntsville,
March 24-25, 2ooo. This forum will focus on the network to freedom
through Texas into Mexico from 182o through the Civil War. The empha-
sis will be on stimulating plans and funding for research and interpreta-
tion of the Texas/Mexican Underground Railroad and to encourage
tourism among minorities within the state of Texas and Mexico. All those
interested in participating or presenting should leave their name, organi-
zation, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address with the coordinators at
713/383-7161
The Center for American History will be sponsoring two events in the
spring that showcase the famous Jose Enrique de la Pefia Narrative, a
memoir of a Mexican soldier in Santa Anna's army during the Texas
Revolution:
The Center's Winedale Spring Symposium, scheduled for March 11,
2ooo, will be held at Winedale, located near Round Top, Texas. The
Spring Symposium will be titled "The Texas Revolution: Different Views of
1836." This event will include a viewing of the de la Pefia narrative.
Confirmed speakers and presentations are: Dr. Don E. Carleton, director
of the Center for American History, "The de la Pefia Narrative: Acquisition
and Controversy"; Dr. Bruce Winders, Curator of the Alamo, "Beyond
Crockett: Executions in the Texas Revolution"; Dr. Sam Ratcliffe, head of
the Bywaters Special Collections, Southern Methodist University, "Painting
a Revolution: Artists' Depictions of 1836"; and Sylvia Thompson, indepen-
dent lecturer and historical trip narrator, Houston, "The Women of '36."
The second conference featuring the de la Pefia narrative will be a day-
long conference to be held on the UT Campus in Austin at the Joe C.January
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