Delve deeper into the pivotal Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Revolution with a distinguished lineup of four renowned historians and scholars. This engaging lecture series offers a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the historical events that shaped Texas. Lectures will take place before, between, and after the two reenactments. Each lecture will be approximately 30 minutes long with an opportunity for a question-and-answer session following its conclusion. Admission to the lecture series is free, making it accessible to all who wish to enrich their knowledge of Texas history.
Donald S. Frazier will discuss "Shadow of San Jacinto: The Day the World Changed" in the third session of the San Jacinto Day Celebration Lecture Series. There are days when the world changes forever. April 21, 1836, was one of these. The men and boys who attacked the Centralist camp at San Jacinto believed they were settling a score; instead, they were changing the course of history.
Dr. Donald S. Frazier is the Director of The Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville and is the author of six books on Texas, the Civil War, and the complicated relationship between Mexico and the United States in the early nineteenth century.
Frazier has taught in college classrooms at Texas Christian University, McMurry University, and Schreiner University. In addition to his classroom teaching, Frazier has been very involved in public history, working on Civil War and frontier heritage trails in Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, and work on historical projects in Europe and Mexico. He wrote and narrated a 250 video series on the history of Texas entitled E Pluribus Texas. He also penned Come and Take It, a full length play that follows the life story of Susannah Dickinson.
As head of The Texas Center at Schreiner University, Frazier leads an educational adventure enterprise, Texas Center Tours, as well as a publishing operation, State House Press.
Dr. Frazier is an elected member of the prestigious Philosophical Society of Texas, the oldest learned organization in the state. He is also a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, and a Director-Scholar on the board of the Texas Historical Foundation. Frazier an advisor to The Alamo, the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, and the Texas General Land Office.
In 2023, Governor Gregg Abbott appointed him to lead the Texas 1836 Project, the state’s effort to encourage the telling of the Texas story.
Lectures will be presented in the Jesse H. Jones Theatre for Texas Studies inside the San Jacinto Monument.
