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
April 2013 Issue
On the Cover: Welsh industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen (1771–1858). Courtesy Don Blair Collection, University of Southern Indiana. Robert Owen was one of the most influential thinkers in the English-speaking world in the first half of the nineteenth century, and his cooperative communities at New Lanark, Scotland, and New Harmony, Indiana, remain landmarks for their alternative visions of social life in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. The results of the cooperative schemes established in these places proved to be mixed, but by the late 1820s Owen sought to extend them further, including to the Texas frontier, then a part of Mexico, as José María Herrera shows in “Vision of a Utopian Texas: Robert Owen’s Colonization Scheme.” A few years later, French reformer Etienne Cabet (1788–1856), after spending time in exile in England, came under the influence of Owen, and eventually he would undertake his own scheme for establishing a colony in Texas (by this time part of the United States). The short-lived Denton County settlement is described in Donald J. Kagay’s “Icaria: An Aborted Utopia on the Texas Frontier.” |
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. |
