Virtual Events
Andrew J. Torget, historian and professor at the University of North Texas, will give a lecture based on his book, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
Miss a course you would have liked to attend? This semester, most Houston Seminar Zoom sessions will be recorded and available to view online through the spring. If you registered for a course, the recording is included with your ticket and you will automatically receive an email a day or two after each session with viewing instructions. Click here to visit our new Recordings Shop and purchase access to recordings after the “live” session has taken place.
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