The Junior Historian, Volume 19, Number 4, January 1959 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS 1897
President:
RALPH STEENVice-Presidents:
MERLE DUNCAN
FRED R. COTTEN GEORGE P. ISBELL
STUART McGREGORDirector:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULILIS--0-
THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8011, University Station,
University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas
Editor:
H. BAILEY CARROLI,
Associate Editors:CHESTER V. KIEI,MAN
JANICE KIAPP
".No maI is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESEVNT
who is igs norant of the PAST, and no Peoplrewho are indifere t
to their PAST need hoPe to make their I'C'FUTURE great."
Issued six times (luring the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscriptions (five or more to chapter members) $1.50
each. Entered as second-class matter February 21, 1945, at the post office at Austin, Texas, under
the Act of March 3. 1879.
THE THRILL OF GATHERING
LOCAL HISTORY
ly' RUTHt Axx )oMA-'TITexas history has always fascinated me,
butit it took the combination of studying his-
tory at The lJniversity of Texas and a term
paper about an unusual old house for me to
realize that my special field of interest was
the research and writing of the local history
of Texas.
In answer to questions asking why I chose
local history instead of the more famous
aspects of Texas' past, I explain that few
persons understand why histories are written
about men any less renowned than Jim Bowie
or of an event less exciting than the fall of
the Alamo. The average person fails to real-
ize that if there were no local situations and
people there would be no reason for the oc-
currence of a heroic deed or an event such
as the Alamo. Another fact often overlooked
is that frequently a person is without honorin his own country. This leaves greatness of
character or action which was ignored when
it occurred for a historian to discover.
For one of my first college history assign-
ments I was instructed to choose an interest-
ing early Texas home to be the subject of a
term paper. After much hunting I was
amazed to learn that a house where I played
as a child was of unrecognized historical
value. I was thrilled to turn in a paper about
such a home. Texas seems to be full of just
such unknown heroes and places. Each time
I uncover a new personality or event of
Texas' past I am thrilled anew.
You, as Junior Historians, have superb op-
portunities to find and preserve new facts
and figures of historical importance. I)uring
this school year I hope each of you discover.
at least one exciting bit of local history.
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