CURRICULUM VITAE
RICHARD LOWE
January 2017
Currently: Regents Professor of History (retired), University of North Texas
Telephone: 940/565-2288 (office)
Fax: 940/369-8931 (office)
E-mail:
Education
Ph.D. in history, University of Virginia, August 1968
A.M. in history, HarvardUniversity, June 1965
B.A. in history, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, May 1964
Teaching
University of NorthTexas, September 1968 to present
CookeCountyJunior College, summer 1980
TarrantCountyJunior College, 197980 and summer 1980
University of Virginia, summer 1970
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, summer 1967
University of Louisiana-Lafayette, summer 1965
Grants and Fellowships
UNT Faculty Research Grants, various amounts, 196983, 19912001
Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 1993
Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, 1991-1992
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 196768 (University of Virginia)
Dupont Fellowship, 196667 (University of Virginia)
Seay Fellowship, 196566 (University of Virginia)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 196465 (HarvardUniversity)
Honors
Appointed Fellow of the TexasState Historical Assn., 2011
UNTHonorsCollege award for teaching excellence, 2009
Elected to Texas Institute of Letters, 2007
Elected to UNT Athletic Hall of Fame, 2006
Davis Book Award, Museum of the Confederacy (for Walker’s Texas Division, 2004)
Elected toPhilosophical Society of Texas, 2004
UNT Award for Outstanding Service to the University, fall 1983
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (University of Virginia), 1968
Raven Society (University of Virginia), 1968
Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society (University of Louisiana-Lafayette), 1964
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (University of Louisiana-Lafayette), 1964
Publications
A. Books
Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe, Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1977).
Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell, Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1987).
Richard Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 185670 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991).
Richard Lowe, The TexasOverland Expedition of 1863 (Fort Worth, TX: Ryan Place Publishers, 1996; reprinted, Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 1998).
Richard Lowe, ed., A Texas Cavalry Officer’s Civil War: The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).
Richard Lowe, Walker’s Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004). [Jefferson Davis Award, 2005, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA]
Richard Lowe, Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker’s History
of the Civil War West of the Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2013).
B. Chapters and Articles in Books and Encyclopedias
"Amelia Island Affair," in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 40.
"Battle of Sabine Pass," in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 1071.
"Capture of Galveston," in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 505.
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"Francis H. Pierpont: Unionist Governor of Virginia," in Edward Younger et al., The Governors of Virginia, 18601978 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982), pp. 3345.
“John F. Lewis [U.S. Senator],” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 13:584-85.
“Francis H. Pierpont [Virginia governor],” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 17:505-506.
“William Smith [Virginia governor],” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 20:309-10.
“Gilbert C. Walker [Virginia governor],” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 22:496-97.
“‘We Are Now Coming to New Things’: The Life of Willis Augustus Hodges,” in The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Steven Woodworth (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000).
[same essay as above, reprinted in a different book] “‘We Are Now Coming to New Things’: The Life of Willis Augustus Hodges,” in The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction, ed. Charles W. Calhoun (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002).
“Battle on the Levee: The Fight at Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana,” in Black Soldiers in Blue: African-American Troops in the Civil War Era, ed. John David Smith (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
“Virginia” [on Reconstruction in Virginia], in RichardZuczek, ed., The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era, 2 vols.(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2006. Pp. 694-700.
“Francis H. Pierpont” [governor of Virginia], in RichardZuczek, ed., The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era, 2 vols.(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2006. Pp. 477-479.
“Who Fought for the Confederacy? The Soldiers of Walker’s Texas Division,” in
Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings 2004[not published until 2007].
Austin: Philosophical Society of Texas, 2004. Pp. 62-71.
“Warriors, Husbands, and Fathers: Confederate Soldiers andTheir Families,” in Charles D. Grear, ed., The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone StarState (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008). Pp. 24-35.
C. Articles in Scholarly Journals
"American Seizure of AmeliaIsland," Florida Historical Quarterly 45 (July 1966): 1830.
"Republican Newspapers in Antebellum Virginia," West Virginia History 28 (July 1967): 282284.
"Massachusetts and the Acadians," William & Mary Quarterly 3 Series, 25 (April 1968): 212229.
"Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (July 1972): 341360.
"The Republican Party in Antebellum Virginia, 18561860," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 81 (July 1973): 259279.
"Wealthholding and Political Power in Antebellum Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 79 (July 1975): 2130. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
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"The SlaveBreeding Hypothesis: A Demographic Comment on the `Buying' and 'Selling' States," Journal of Southern History 42 (August 1976): 401412. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Slave Property and the Distribution of Wealth in Texas," Journal of American History 63 (September 1976): 316324. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Some Economic Aspects of Antebellum Texas Agriculture," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 82 (April 1979): 351378. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Heads of Families in Antebellum Texas: A Profile," Red RiverValley Historical Review 5 (Spring 1980): 6880. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Another Look at Reconstruction in Virginia," Civil War History 32 (March 1986): 5676.
"To Speak and Act as Freemen: The Emergence of Black Republicans in Postbellum Virginia," Virginia Cavalcade 41 (Autumn 1991): 52-63.
"The Joint Committee on Reconstruction: Some Clarifications," Southern Studies 3 (March 1992): 55-65. [actually published in 1994]
"The Freedmen's Bureau and Local Black Leadership," Journal of American History 80 (December 1993): 989-98.
"Local Black Leaders During Reconstruction in Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 103 (April 1995).
“Testimony from the Old Dominion Before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 104 (July 1996): 373-98.
“The Freedmen’s Bureau and Local White Leaders in Virginia,” Journal of Southern History 64 (August 1998): 455-72.
“Van Dorn’s Raid on HollySprings, December 1862: A Texas Cavalry Officer’s Account,” Journal of Mississippi History 61 (Spring 1999): 59-71.
D. Editing
Co-editor, Civil War mailing list H-CivWar, H-NET, on Internet, 1993-2008
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Co-editor of "War and the Southwest" book series, UNT Press, 1992-
Editor of Military History of the West [scholarly journal], 19882012
Associate editor of Edward Younger et al., The Governors of Virginia, 1860-1978 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982)
E. Book Reviews and Book Notes
1. Book Reviews in
American Historical Review
American Nineteenth-Century History
American Quarterly
Annals of Iowa
Annals of the AmericanAcademy
of Political and Social Sciences
Choice
Civil War History
Civil War Regiments
Dallas Morning News book section
East Texas Historical Assn. Journal
Georgia Historical Quarterly
The Historian
History: Reviews of New Books
Journal of American History
Journal of Southern History
Law and Politics Book Review
Louisiana History
Maryland Historical Magazine
Microform Review
North Carolina Historical Review
Red RiverValley Historical Review
Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Texas Books in Review
Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography
2. Book Notes in
Choice
Military History of the West
Society of Civil War HistoriansNewsletter
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F. Papers and Program Appearances
"Age and Sex Characteristics of Texas Slaves, 1860," paper read at Texas State Historical Association annual meeting, March 1973, in Austin, Texas. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Southern History from State and Local Archives: Antebellum Texas as a Test Case," paper read at Southwestern Social Science Association annual meeting, March 1974, in Dallas, Texas. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"CountyTax Records: Assessing an Untaxed Source," paper read at Southwestern Social Science Association annual meeting, April 1976, in Dallas, Texas. Coauthor with RandolphCampbell
"Texans in the Bayou Country: The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau," paper read at the Eighth Annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, June 1994.
Also presented at Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable, November 1995
Louisiana Historical Assn. annual meeting, March 1995
BrazosValley Civil War Round Table, January 1995
Waco Civil War Round Table, October 1994
Dallas Civil War Round Table, June 1994
Civil War Weekend, Samuell Farm, Dallas, March 1996
“Historians and the Internet: Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, and the World Wide Web,” paper read at the Texas State Historical Association annual meeting, March 1996, in Austin, Texas.
“Blue, Gray, and Green at Milliken’s Bend,” paper read at the Tenth Annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium, SoutheasternLouisianaUniversity, Hammond, LA, June 1996
Also presented as banquet address, annual meeting, North Louisiana Historical Assn., Shreveport, LA, April 1999
“New Teaching Technologies in U.S. History,” presentation at the AHA Teaching of History Conference, UNT, September 1996
Also presented at Strickland Jr. High School, Denton, October 1996
“Cavalry Raid at HollySprings,” paper read at the North Louisiana Civil War Round Table, Shreveport, LA, June 1997
Also presented to Dallas Civil War Round Table, July 1998
Civil War Weekend, Samuell Farm, Dallas, March 1999
Deep Delta Civil War Symposium, Hammond, LA, June 2003
College Station Civil War Round Table, September 2005
“Some Demographic Aspects of Texas Confederate Troops,” paper read at the Southwestern Social Science Assn. annual meeting, Galveston, TX, April 2000
“Walker’s Texas Division,” paper read for the
Dallas Civil War Round Table, June 2004
Fort Worth Civil War Round Table, September 2004
Confederate History Symposium, HillCollege, April 2005
Austin Civil War Round Table, January 2006
Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Dallas chapter, March 2006
“Who Fought in the Civil War? Walker’s Texas Division,” paper read at the annual
meeting, Philosophical Society of Texas, Fort Worth/Denton, December 2004
“The Civil War,” talk delivered to teachers at Texas Humanities institute, UNT, 2008
“The Attempt to Relieve Vicksburg from the West,” Hood’s Texas Brigade Annual
Symposium, Abilene, Texas, November 2009
“Texas and the Red River Campaign,” Emeritus College, UNT, April 2012
“The Freedmen’s Bureau,” Texas State Historical Association’sEnergizing Texas
History Conference, Dallas, November 2013
“Technology and the Battlefield in the American Civil War,” Emeritus College, UNT,
September 2015
“The Campaign for Vicksburg,” Emeritus College, UNT, October 2016
Professional Consulting
Advisory Committee, living museum of Texas agriculture, Winedale Farm, Round Top, Texas, 1972-73
Consultant, Fort Bend County, Texas, historical site on the World Wide Web, 1997
Consultant to Civil War museum, HillCollege, Hillsboro, Texas, 1999
Consultant to project to erect a monument to the “Great Hanging” in Gainesville, Texas, 1999
Consultant for juvenile historical magazine, Cobblestone: Discovery American History, 2002
Consultant for the Museum of the Confederacy to identify previously unknown
document on the Vicksburg Campaign, 2009
Consultant for Rogers State College, Claremore, Oklahoma, to evaluate proposal for
a new bachelor’s degree in military history, 2009
Interviewed, KERA Radio, on Texas in the Civil War and public controversy about
Confederate monuments, 2015
Referee for numerous historical journals and book publishers
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