ASU's "Latino Americans: 500 Years of History" Series Welcomes Guest Speaker

Angelo State University’s “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” series will feature Dr. Frank de la Teja of Texas State University, who will present “The Spanish Colonial Background of America’s Latino Population” on Tuesday, March 29, said a press release Monday.

The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 100 of the Mathematics-Computer Science (MCS) Building, 2200 Dena Drive, and is open free to the public.

De la Teja is the Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, Regents’ Professor of History, and director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University. He has published extensively on Spanish, Mexican and Republic-era Texas, most recently “Faces of Béxar: Early San Antonio and Texas” (Texas A&M University Press, 2016) and “Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: The Other Civil War Texas” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).

Additionally, de la Teja serves on the board of directors of Humanities Texas and on the advisory board of the San Jacinto Museum of History. He previously held the post of president of the Texas State Historical Association and was the inaugural Texas State Historian (2007-09). He is a recipient of the Americanism Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution, a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and the Texas Catholic Historical Society, and a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.

The year-long series, “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History,” presented by ASU’s Department of History and the Porter Henderson Library, has been made possible through a grant (No. LA105406) from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of the history faculty and Kimberly Wirth, coordinator of information literacy/research librarian for the Porter Henderson Library, are the grant coordinators.

More information is available online at www.angelo.edu/latinoamericans or by contacting the Department of History at 325-942-2324.