Papers produced by Barker (1874-1956), University of Texas historian and educator, relate to the development of the Texas State Historical Association, the American Historical Association, and other learned societies; scholarly research and publication; teaching at the university; national historical affairs; Barker's consideration of academic freedom, tenure, and the administration of the University of Texas; his studies of the Fredonian Rebellion, Texas finances (1835-1836), Houston and the 1836 Campaign, miscellaneous data and sources in Texas history, Mexican Army and Mexican sources, Goliad and the Tampico Expedition, Texas-Mexican relations (1827-1834), causes of the Texas Revolution; letters concerning the writings of Sam Houston; transcriptions of documents concerning the Alamo, James Walker Fannin, Jr., James Grant, Francis W. Johnson, and William B. Travis; Stephen F. Austin; Anglo-American settlement in Texas; Austin's Colony; Austin in Mexico; Declaration of Independence; establishment of the Republic of Texas, civil government, land speculation, and nonmilitary events of 1836; native Latin American contributions to the colonization and independence of Texas; Texas relations with Great Britain, France, and Europe; William Barker family notes; Frederick Jackson Turner notes; miscellaneous notes on state banks, Virginia Convention of 1788, economic interpretation of the Constitution, the judiciary and slavery, Velasco, East Texas, expulsion of John Bradburn, Convention of 1833, homestead law in Texas, Mexia Expedition, religion, Peter Grayson, and impressions suggested by Sam Houston's writings; and records of Barker's major publications. The papers contain correspondence, speeches, lecture notes, research notes, literary productions, class records, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Eugene Campbell Barker (1874-1956) grew up in the east Texas towns of Riverside and Palestine before enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his B.A. in 1899 and his M.A. in 1900. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania where he finished his Ph.D. in 1908. With the death of George P. Garrison, Barker became the chair of the University of Texas History Department, a position he held until 1925. Barker is widely credited with leading the UT History Department to a position of national prominence through the recruitment of important faculty and the matriculation of notable students.
Among Barker's seminal works were his collecting, editing, and publishing of
Source:
Eugene Campbell Barker Papers, 1785, 1812-1959, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Transferred from boxes 2B91, OD1273, 2B103, 2B111, 2B133, OD1267.
was in OD1267
70 photographic prints. 2 postcards. 1 engraving. 14 other photomechanical reproductions.
Includes images of Barker and other prominent UT faculty members and administrators, the dedications of the Barker Texas History Center and the James Stephen Hogg portrait, historic sites in Texas, and silver mining in Mexico.
Arranged by persons, places, and general subjects.
Donated by Eugene C. Barker, the Texas State Historical Association, Llerena Friend, and others.
Transferred from boxes 2B92, 2B134, 2B135.
Transferred from boxes 2B91, 2B106-2B111, 2B125-2B128, 2B132-2B135, OD1273.