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about the Contributors Nancy E. Baker (PhD, Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University. She is currently completing a manuscript for Baylor University Press entitled “‘Too Much to Lose, Too Little to Gain’: The Role of Rescission Movements in the Equal Rights Amendment Battle, 1972–1982” and has contributed “Texas Feminist Hermine Tobolowsky: Conservative Women and the Texas Fight over Equal Rights, 1972–1982” to the forthcoming Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times. David O’Donald Cullen (PhD, University of North Texas) is Professor of History, Collin College. He is coeditor of The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, coauthor of “The Communist Party of the United States and African American Political Candidates” in African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to theWhite House and the author of numerous other publications including“Back to the Future: Eugenics, a Bibliographic Essay” in The Public Historian: A Journal of Public Policy. Sean P. Cunningham (PhD, University of Florida) is Assistant Professor of History,Texas Tech University.He is the author of Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right and currently is under contract with Oxford University Press forThe ContestedAscendancy: Sunbelt Politics since 1945, a monograph examining American politics since 1945. George N.Green (PhD,Florida State University) is retired as Professor of History,University of Texas atArlington.He is the author of The Establishment inTexas Politics:The PrimitiveYears,1938–1957,and“Unions in Texas from the Time of the Republic through the Great War,” and coauthor of “Looking for Lefty: Liberal/Left Activism and Texas Labor, 1920s–1960s,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. He is currently working on an overview of Texas labor history. 174฀ •฀ aBOuT The CONTRiBuTORs Michael Lind (JD, University of Texas at Austin) cofounded the New America Foundation where he is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program. He is the author of numerous publications including Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics; Up from Conservatism:Why the Right IsWrong for America; and most recently, Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States. Michael Phillips (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of History,Collin College.He is the author of the award-winning White Metropolis : Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001, and coauthor of The House Will Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics as well as other publications. Samuel K. Tullock (PhD, University of Texas at Dallas) is Professor of History, Collin College. He is the author of “Benjamin Miller” and “John Hart: Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Friend to the Baptists” in A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable ParticularRegular Baptists in America and is currently at work on“The Transformation of American Fundamentalism: The Life and Career of John Franklyn Norris.” KeithVolanto (PhD,TexasA&M University) is Professor of History,Collin College. He is the author of Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal;“James E. Youngblood: Race,Family,Farm Ownership in Jim Crow Texas”in Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Farmers since Reconstruction; “The Life and Work of Dr. Beadie Eugene Conner: An African American Physician in Jim Crow Texas,”Southwestern Historical Quarterly; “Strange Brew: Recent Texas Political, Economic, and Military History,”in Beyond Texas through Time; and coauthor of Beyond Myths and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas. Kyle G. Wilkison (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Professor of History, Collin College. He is the author of Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870–1914 and coeditor of The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. ...

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