The Junior Historian, Volume 2, Number 4, January 1942 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897President:
HARBERT DAVENPORT
Vice-Presidents:
EARL VANDALE
HERBERT GAMBRELL GEORGE A. HILL, JR.
P. I. NIXONRecording Secretary and Librarian:
WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
Treasurer:
CHARLES W. RAMSDELL
Corresponding Secretary:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLIS0----
THE SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Managing Editor:
WALTER PRESCOTT WEBBCHARLES W. HACKETT
Associate Editors:
RUDOLPH L. BIESELEH. BAILEY CARROLL
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THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
University Station-Austin, Texas
Editor:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
"No man is fit to be entrusted 'with the control of the PRESENT,
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People, who are indifferent
to their PAST, need hope- to make their FUTURE great."THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL HISTORY
Junior Historians have a right to congrat-
ulate themselves upon the importance of their
work in developing local history. They are
helping to create the very foundations of
written history because all historical move-
ments and events are local in origin. The
story of world movements is made up of a
multitude of local units which the historian
condenses, organizes, and fits together into a
single narrative or exposition.
Figuratively speaking, Junior Historians
are engaged in the useful and fascinating
labor of digging isolated gems of truth from
the mines and tailings of past events and
delivering them to master craftsmen who
weave them into a unified mosaic which may
picture the life of a movement, an era, or a
state. Every issue of The Junior Historiant
contains rich nuggets of fact which help to
illuminate the history of Texas. Through the
stories published in this little magazine, we
catch glimpses of many phases of the past
life of Texas. We see life on the frontier,
exposed to daily hardships that we can hardly
imagine; we have little biographies of sturdymen and women who bravely and joyfully
surmounted the hardships and laid the founda-
tions for the comfort and happiness that we
have enjoyed; we see the cattle drives and oil
booms which have .given our history some of
its most significant and picturesque qualities;
and such stories as "The Shamrock Plate"
and the old "Nimitz Hotel" suggest the back-
ground of distant countries whose citizens
came to Texas in search of greater freedom
and opportunity than they could find in their
old homes. These little stories deepen knowl-
edge and appreciation of our inheritance from
the past, and each adds its individual flavor
to the larger story of the state.
In one sense, local history is the truest his-
tory that we have. It is rarely distorted by
propagandists who misinterpret facts in the
effort to draw from history arguments to
strengthen a good or bad cause. The his-
torian of local affairs need never apologize
for his efforts. His aim is to discover and
tell the truth for its own sake. He turns no
grindstones for the sharpening of selfish axes.
EUGENE C. BARKER.
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