The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 47, July 1943 - April, 1944 Page: 428
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
A highly interesting commentary on contemporary history
was contained in the Dallas Morning News, December 13, 1943:
In the years to come after this world-shaking war there will be a
small job, at best, for the debunkers of history and defamers of history-
makers, such as have operated constructively and destructively in the
earlier decades of this century. If any writer of that school should
loose a broadside, it will be possible to consult a full and authoritative
record of this time, set down by trained historians as history was being
made, and to discredit all his misstatements.
Henry Gemmill, staff correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, has
contributed the interesting story of what is being done to preserve
spot history for posterity. It tells that historical units have been set
up in twenty-two war agencies, from the Office of War Mobilization
to the White House and the Post Office Department, that the War De-
partment is establishing such units in every theater of operations, and
that spot historians assigned to naval operations actually have risked
their lives as participants.
The head of the War Department's historical branch is a professional
soldier, Lieut. Col. John Kemper, but his chief aid is a distinguished
historian, and equally distinguished historians are serving in all of
the numerous agencies. These, the habitual critics should be told, are
scholars drawn from the great universities. Posterity will be indebted
to them for their preservation of the record as it was being made, of
truth that cannot be overthrown.
Iowa State College has announced the promotion to the rank
of assistant professor of W. Turrentine Jackson, formerly in-
structor in history at The University of Texas.
Miss Llerena Friend of Wichita Falls, has been granted a
leave of absence from Wichita Falls High School and is working
on The Handbook of Texas in the Association's office.
The January Quarterly (p. 297) carried a list of Texas County
"Oracles." To that list should be added the following:
PERSONS INFORMED ON THE HISTORY OF VARIOUS TEXAS COUNTIES
BRAZOS COUNTY HARRIS COUNTY
Miss Josephine Watts Andrew Forest Muir
Bryan, Texas 946 Courtland St.
BURLESON COUNTY Houston, Texas
Mrs. Judd Collier JEFFERSON COUNTY
Mumford, Texas Judge Chilton O'Brien
GRIMES COUNTY Beaumont, Texas
Mr. E. L. Blair Judge Charles D. Smith
Trinity, Texas Beaumont, Texas428
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 47, July 1943 - April, 1944, periodical, 1944; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146054/m1/477/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.