Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly brings the latest and most authoritative research in Texas history to a wide audience of history lovers and scholars. Since the Quarterly can only publish approximately sixteen articles each year, it is our editorial policy to publish original research on Texas history topics that have the greatest historical significance and the broadest reader interest.
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, continuously published since 1897, is the premier source of scholarly information about the history of Texas and the Southwest. The first 100 volumes of the Quarterly, more than 57,000 pages, are now available Online with searchable Tables of Contents.
Printed copies of the Quarterly are a benefit of membership in the Texas State Historical Association and are widely available in public and private libraries. Back issues can be read and searched on the Portal to Texas History, which are listed in the SHQonline section with the Table of Contents of each volume.
Featured Issues
January 2013 Issue
Detail of the western Gulf of Mexico from Accurata delineation celeberrimae regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ot. Canadae et Floridae, ca. 1734, by Matthaeus Seutter. Courtesy Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas. Visible at the center of the detail are two references to sites related to La Salle, including one on the Texas coast near a bay marked “B. S. Louis.” La Salle’s settlement has come to be known to history as “Fort St. Louis,” but Texas historian Robert S. Weddle argues that this name is erroneous. Weddle and co-author Donald E. Chipman tackle this myth and others from Texas’s colonial period in “How Historical Myths Are Born . . . And Why They Seldom Die” in this issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. |
October 2012 Issue
Seth Eastman, Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1849. Collection of James and Kimel Baker. Author James Graham Baker discusses this image and other early depictions of Corpus Christi in "Seth Eastman's Drawing of Corpus Christi: A Military Man's Representation of the South Texas Frontier Settlement, Circa 1849." |
