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| Jan Reed and Light Cummins at the TSHA |
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Contributors to Women and the Texas Revolution at the
Awards Luncheon |
The Texas State Historical Association’s Liz Carpenter
Award for this year went to two books, Jan Reed’s
Let
the People In: The Life and Times of Anne Richards and
Women of the Texas Revolution, edited by Mary L. Shccr. The award
was presented during the Women’s History luncheon of the association
recently held in Fort Worth, Texas. I wrote one of the essays contained in
Sheer’s
Women of the Texas Revolution.
Jan Reed, one of the most respected journalists in Texas, has been an editor at
Texas Monthly for over three decades. He
is the author of ten books and dozens of articles, the latter of which have
been published in a wide variety of high-circulation magazines and newspapers.
His book on Anne Richards draws both from the extensive biographical research
he conducted for this volume in addition to reflections and insights from his
having known Governor Richards personally across the entire course of her
career. His book is a balanced, rich, and full examination of Richards that
captures her personality and while it provides an even-handed assessment of her
career in Texas politics. A review in the
Washington Post notes that in chronicling Ann Richard’s story “
Reid, a veteran of Austin literary and
political circles, tells it with sympathy, insight and a deep knowledge of
contemporary Texas politics." The other prize winner, Women and the Texas Revolution, contains six essays by historians
familiar with that era of the state’s history. Each article examines some
aspect of female participation in that conflict. My essay deals with women and
the Runaway Scrape. Other essays assess various important ways in which women participated
in the Revolutions. The additional authors are Mary L. Kelley, Jean Stuntz, Lindy
Eakin, Angela Boswell, and Dora Elizondo Guerra
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