High Noon Talk: Texian Exodus
Programs
December 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Join us for a discussion examining Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape.
Event Details
Take a mid-day break with our free High Noon Talks! Discover interesting and often untold stories of Texas at our casual lunchtime series.
Leading Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin will be joined by best-selling Texas author Stephen Harrigan for an in-depth discussion of Hardin's new book, Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy and the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction. Hardin will be available to sign copies of the book, which can be purchased on-site, after the High Noon Talk from 1–1:30 p.m.
Texian Exodus transports readers to the frigid, sodden spring of 1836, when thousands of Texians—Anglo-American settlers—fled eastward for the United States in fear of Antonio López de Santa Anna’s advancing Mexican Army. Hardin draws on the accounts of the Runaways themselves to relate a tale of high stakes and great sorrow.
This program is FREE to the public.
This program is available as an on-demand recording for CPE credit. To get access to the link and a certificate email Education@thestoryoftexas.com.
Stephen L. Hardin is the author of Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution 1835–1836, The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign, Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston, and Lust for Glory: An Epic Saga of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation. Hardin is recently retired after a thirty-five-year career in higher education.
Stephen Harrigan is a longtime contributor to Texas Monthly whose work has also appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, and other national publications. He was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Awards in the commentary category for his writing at Texas Monthly and he is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Harrigan is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton.
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