Lone Star Mind

Ty Cashion is Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas, and MontrEal, Canada.

"Ty Cashion has written an optimistic and ultimately cheerful book: He argues that we have arrived at a tipping point, a point where drawing from the best of traditional history and revisionist history and inspired by the recent emphasis on cultural history a new organizing principle can emerge that unites historians and all Texans. Cashion believes that out of this yet-to-be-fully-determined organizing principle a new, more 'usable' history will evolve that better fits the culturally diverse present-day Texas. For those interested in the interaction of popular culture and history, and for those searching for a way forward from the divisiveness of our times, this is a must-read."-Walter L. Buenger, author of The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression "...Cashion's message will be well received by scholars, due both to its optimism as well as its rich accounting for what "Texas" has meant across time. Whether the gap between popular Texas history and academic Texas history can ever be bridged, though-especially given the deep divisions in the state that Cashion accounts for, not to mention the larger political fracturing of the early twenty-first century United States-remains to be seen. Nonetheless, Lone Star Mind is a deeply thoughtful book that all Texas historians should read."- Panhandle-Plains Historical Review "Lone Star Mind leads the reader through the processes of how communities construct and deploy narratives of the past, and it confirms that Cashion remains one of the more perceptive scholars of Texas history and culture."- The Journal of Southern History