Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas

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The Texas State Historical Association The Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education inTexas Old Red examines the life and legacy of the Ashbel Smith Building at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston from its beginnings through modern-day efforts to preserve it. Chapters explore the nascence of medical education in Texas; the supreme talent and genius of Old Red architect Nicholas J. Clayton; and the lives of faculty and students as they labored and learned in the midst of budget crises, classroom and fraternity antics, death-rendering storms, and threats of closure. Most of all, the reader is invited to step inside Old Red and mingle with ghosts of the past. Also in the Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series: Álvar Núñez Cabeza deVaca:The Great Pedestrian of North and South America by Donald E. Chipman Ima Hogg:The Governor’s Daughter byVirginia Bernhard Galveston:A History and a Guide by David McComb The Samuel MayWilliams Home:The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur by Margaret Swett Henson AshtonVilla:A Family and Its Home inVictorian Galveston,Texas by Kenneth Hafertepe Sacred Memories:The CivilWar Monument Movement inTexas by Kelly McMichael CivilWarTexas:A History and a Guide by Ralph A.Wooster ...