Benjamin Heber Johnson

Benjamin H. Johnson is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the History Department at Loyola University Chicago.  In addition to Texas: An American History, he is the author of numerous works on the U.S. Mexico border and environmental history, including Revolution in Texas:  How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003); Bordertown:  The Odyssey of an American Place (Yale University Press, 2008); and Escaping the Dark, Gray City:  Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation (2017).  Johnson is also a member of “Refusing to Forget”, a public history project devoted to commemorating the legacies of the border violence of the 1910s, which has received awards from the Western History Association, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians.  Johnson has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, currently co-edits the Journal of Texas History and the Weber Series in New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press.  He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.