Laura McLemore Ph.D.

Degrees

Research Interests

Civil Rights Era Louisiana History; Women’s Clubs; American Intellectual History/Historiography;  Texas Historiography; Early National Period American History; Gilded Age and Progressive Era American History

Selected Publications

Books:

Open Anthology of the American Revolution: Primary Source Readings 1623-1800. Ed. Sarah Mazur, Pressbooks, 2021.
Editor. The Battle of New Orleans In History and Memory. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016)

Adele Looscan: Daughter of the Republic. Texas Biography Series. (Ft. Worth, TX: TCU Press, 2016).

Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State, College Station: Texas A& M University Press, 2004.

Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals, refereed bulletins, and refereed proceedings:

“Gray Ghost: Creating a Collective Memory of a Confederate Texas,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas. Ed. Jesús F. De La Teja. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016):15-36.

“Daughter of the Republic: Adele Looscan,” in Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times. Eds. Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

“Women and the Texas Revolution in History and Memory.” In Women and the Texas Revolution. Ed. Mary Kelly Scheer (Denton, TX: UNT Press, 2012). 209-227.

“Early Historians and the Shaping of Texas Memory,” Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas. Eds. Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Turner (TAMU Press, 2007), 16-38.

Articles and Reviews:

“Reverse Freedom Rides,” 64 Parishes Encyclopedia Online, 2024.

“Ned Touchstone,,” 64 Parishes Encyclopedia Online, 2024.

“Citizens’ Councils,” 64 Parishes Encyclopedia Online, 2024.

“Darwinian Dilemma: Documenting Recent History.” History News (Nov. 1993)

“John Patterson Osterhout: Annals of a Texas Emigrant,” Texas Studies Annual 2 (1995), 87-110.

“Marching to a Different Drummer, Austin College in Sherman, 1889-1897.” Legacies 8 (Spring 1996), 16-24.

Review of “Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin” by Thomas O. McDonald. The Journal of Southern History 88, no. 2, (May 2022): 384–85.

Review of Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Historian of Early Texas by Louise O'Connor. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 123, no. 2 (October 2019), 257-258.

Review of Texan Identities: Moving Beyond Myth, Memory, and Fallacy in Texas History. Edited by Light Townsend Cummins and Mary L. Scheer. Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July 2017): 93-94.

Review of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America, by Hilary E. Wyss, and The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature by Joshua David Bellin. The Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, n.s. volume 28 (Philadelphia: AMS Press, 2006).

Review. Gone To Texas. By Randolph B. Campbell. West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 2005 (2010).

Review published by H-List@h-net.msu.edu (1 Sept 2004). Don Erler. Lone Star State of Mind: A Former Political Theorist Explores Real World Issues. Foreword by George Anastaplo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. xiv + 181 pp. Index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7391-0449-7; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7391-0450-0.

Review of The Portable Handbook of Texas, edited by Roy R. Barkely and Mark F. Odintz. Western Historical Quarterly 31.1 (Spring 2002): 99-100.

Review of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862, by Richard B. McCaslin. Legacies 7 (March 1995): 44-45.

Other publications (e.g., compositions, essays, etc.):

“Bringing Primary Sources Home,” Southwestern Archivist Vol. 46, no. 2 (May 2023), 26-27.

“Peripatetic Pursuits: Shreveport 2009,” A Walking Tour of Historic Downtown  Shreveport. Southwestern Archivist Vol. 32, no 1, Feb 2009.

“Long Arm of the Archives: LSUS Archives and Special Collections Reaches Out,” Southwestern Archivist 29, no. 1 (February 2006): 16.

“Louisiana State University-Shreveport Acquires Woodruff Papers,” Louisiana History 2005.

“Rocking on the Red: LSU-Shreveport Acquires the Woodruff Papers,” Southwestern Archivist 28, no. 3 (August 2005):14.

“Grand Old Movie House Makes Its On-Line Debut,” Southwestern Archivist 27, no. 4 (November 2004): 16.

“Special Collections, The Lively Art of the Book.” Austin College Magazine (Winter 2001): 26-31.

“Lost Buildings of Austin College,” Austin College Magazine (Nov. 1999).