In 2015, the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, working with the UTA Library’s Digital Creation department, began work on a digital mapping project to better understand violence among the many peoples of Texas in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Titled “Border Land: Inter-ethnic Violence in 19th Century Texas,” the website mapped sites of conflict from 1821 (Mexican independence) to statehood in 1846. In 2023 the Center and Library project team began work on Phase II of the project—now renamed Texas in Turmoil--to develop a site with more interactive features, enhanced search functions, and a data analytics component. Phase II also extended the timeframe of the project to 1879, to include Reconstruction and the end of the so-called “Indian Wars.”
View Website ArchiveSam W. Haynes, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies
Jackson Pearson, Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Jennifer Hilliard, Project Coordinator
Nathan Cowley, Student Intern
Michele Duncan, Student Research Assistant
Cicada E. Wick, Student Research Assistant
Jessica McClean, Director of Digital Scholarship
Andrew Leverenz, Senior Web Developer
Austin Gilmore, Web Developer
Damian Lane, Senior Graphic Designer
Rubab Shahzad, Data Visualization Librarian & GIS Specialist
Nikhitha Chandana
The Center for Greater Southwestern Studies would like to thank the UTA President’s Office and UTA President Dr. Jennifer Cowley for their generous support, as well as James and Jennifer Day for funding the Day Family Research Lab in the UTA Library. UTA’s RISE 100 program enabled the Center to fill a post-doctoral research position for the Texas and Turmoil project during the 2024-25 academic year. The Center also received funding from the following sources:
