Author Talk + Q&A with Sam Haynes

Author Talk + Q&A with Sam Haynes

Join the Sites for a special talk and Q&A session with Sam W. Haynes, professor and author of multiple acclaimed Texas History published works, including Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions (1990) and his most recent book, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas (2022).

Both of these titles feature histories of the Dawson and Mier Expeditions.

About the Author

Sam W. Haynes is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington and director of UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies. His newest book, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas, published in 2022, is a bold reassessment of the origins of the Texas Revolution and its consequences for the people of Texas. He is also the author of Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World (2010); James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (1996), and Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions (1990). He is the editor of numerous other works on Texas and the American Southwest, including Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution (with Gerald Saxon, 2015) and Major Problems in Texas History (with Cary Wintz, 2015). Haynes is a fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas State Historical Association. He received his PhD from the University of Houston.

Learn more about Sam Haynes on his website: https://www.samwhaynes.com/