Gregg Cantrell

Biographic Data

ID1122851
NAMEGregg Cantrell
GIVEN NAMESGregg
FAMILY NAMECantrell
SIGNATURECANTRELL G
AFFILIATIONSTexas Christian University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise (1976): A Fiftieth-Anniversary Retrospective

    Open AccessGregg Cantrell, Robert C Mcmath et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Gilded Age and…2026

    Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (1976), a pathbreaking book on the history of Populism and agrarianism, turns fifty in 2026. In this retrospective roundtable, a distinguished panel of historians of Populism discusses the book and its legacy, as well as its author and the relevant historiographical debates. Democratic Promise , which focused largely (although not exclusively) on Texas, was one of several works…

  • The People’s Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism

    Open AccessGregg CantrellBOOKThe People’s Revolt2020

  • Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction

    Open AccessGregg CantrellREVIEWJournal of American History2019

    A brief review cannot do this book justice. Written by three generations of political scientists who double as political historians—David A. Bateman of Cornell University; his adviser, John S. Lapinski, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Lapinski's adviser, Ira Katznelson, of Columbia University—it is an ambitious, massive, magisterial effort to explain “how southern politics remade the United States above and below the Mason-Dixon Line” betw…

  • Our Very Pronounced Theory of Equal Rights to All: Race, Citizenship, and Populism in the South Texas Borderlands

    Gregg CantrellARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 1

    Journal Article “Our Very Pronounced Theory of Equal Rights to All”: Race, Citizenship, and Populism in the South Texas Borderlands Get access Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell is a professor of history and holds the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University. He is also currently president of the Texas State Historical Association. Readers may contact Cantrell at [email protected]. Search for other works…

  • Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence

    Gregg CantrellARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence Get access Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence. By Nevels Cynthia Skove. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xi + 189 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell Texas Christian University Search for oth…

  • Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas

    Ralph A Wooster, Gregg Cantrell et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2008

  • Land: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

    Gregg Cantrell, Graham DavisARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2003

    Journal Article Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas Get access Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas. By Davis Graham. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical…

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Eric Jarvis, Gregg CantrellARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Ralph A Wooster, Gregg CantrellARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Andreas Reichstein, Gregg CantrellARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    With the election of George W. Bush, a Texan has once more moved into the White House. During the presidential campaign, questions of environment, education, poverty, and especially the death penalty have placed the twentyeighth state of the Union once more in the limelight of national and international attention. For many around the world, the death penalty especially raised critical questions because Texas leads the nation in executions. When o…

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Stephen Aron, Gregg CantrellARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2000

  • Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas

    Ben Procter, Gregg CantrellARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2000

    Journal Article Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas Get access Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Cantrell Gregg. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xiv + 493 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $29.95.) Ben Procter Ben Procter Texas Christian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 3, Autumn 2000, Pages 374–37…

  • The Diary of William Fairfax Gray. From Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837

    Gregg Cantrell, William Fairfax Gray et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

  • The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Vol. I: 1839-1845

    Gregg Cantrell, Madge Thornall Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • When Two Worlds Collide: Progressive Spirits in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Robert E May, Daniel W Crofts et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent

    Robert F Durden, Gregg CantrellARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892

    Gregg Cantrell, Jeffrey OstlerARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892. By Jeffrey Ostler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0606-8.) Get access Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1331…

  • Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent

    Loren Schweninger, Gregg CantrellARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent. By Gregg Cantrell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xiv, 361 pp. $47.50, ISBN 0-252-01937-7.) Get access Loren Schweninger Loren Schweninger University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 698–699, https://…

  • Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836

    Gregg Cantrell, Andrés TijerinaARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994

  • Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

    Gregg Cantrell, Paula Mitchell MarksARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Texas Populists and the Failure of Biracial Politics

    Gregg Cantrell, D Scott BartonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1989