Dr. Kenneth W. Howell

 

Kenneth W. Howell received his B.S. degree in history from the University of Texas—Tyler, his M. A. degree in history from Texas A&M University—Commerce and his Ph. D. in history from Texas A&M University in College Station. He taught for twelve years in the Texas public school system before becoming an Assistant Professor of History at Prairie View A&M University. He has also taught at Texas A&M University (College Station), Blinn College (Bryan), North Harris Montgomery Community College, and Trinity Valley Community College. Howell has several publications that focus on Texas and southern history, including Henderson County, Texas, 1846-1861: An Antebellum History (Austin: Eakin Press, 1999), The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction (Best of East Texas Publisher, 2007), "George Adams: A Cowboy All His Life," in Black Cowboy of Texas, ed. Sarah Massey (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000), and “When the Rabble Hiss, Well May Patriots Tremble”: James Webb Throckmorton and the Secession Movement in Texas, 1845-1861,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (April 2006). Additionally, Howell has published numerous articles and book reviews in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, East Texas State Historical Journal, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, The Southern Historian, West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, the Journal of South Texas, and Diálogos Latinamericanos. Currently, he has completed a book manuscript on James Webb Throckmorton for publication with Texas A&M University Press and has begun work on an edited volume on Texas during the Civil War.

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