Texas Ordinance of Secession, 1861
Image Courtesy of Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Modern Times
Texas and the Road to the American Civil War
May 2, 2021 | 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
**Doors at 2:00, Lecture at 2:30
Tickets
$10 General Admission
$5 Student
Free for NCHM Members
Modern Times is back! But in a new, exciting, and COVID-19 safe way! We are moving Modern Time out onto our gorgeous front lawn, and under an open tent! Plus, for the first time EVER we are taking the show online! Now you can even participate in the lecture even when you can’t be here. So let’s step back in time for Season 15 of Modern Times, America at War: 1855-1865.
What led to the American Civil War in Texas? Join the Neill-Cochran House Museum and Andrew Torget as we explore the path to the American Civil War. Dr. Torget’s exciting lecture will help to tie up the final pieces of this exciting Modern Times Season. You don’t want to miss your chance to take the final dive into the decade of America at War.
To ensure the safety of our guests, speakers, and staff at the in person event, we request that all participate in safe social distancing and wear a mask at all times while on our site. The sides of the tent will be open to ensure open airflow, and all chairs will be spaced apart for proper social distancing. Sanitation stations will also be available to all guests.
Andrew Torget will be signing his book Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-150 before and after the event. Be sure to pre-order your book in our online store to pick it up at the event, or to have a copy signed and shipped to you after the event.
About the Speaker
Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas, where he holds the University Distinguished Teaching Professorship. An award-winning speaker, he has been featured at Harvard, Stanford, Rice, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and the Library of Congress. The author and editor of several books, his most recent, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850, won twelve book prizes and awards and was hailed by Texas Monthly as “the most nuanced and authoritative rewriting of Texas's origin myth to date.” In 2018, he set a Guinness World Record for the World’s Longest History Lesson by lecturing on Texas history for 26.5 hours straight, which was seen online by more than 30 million people. In 2020 he was awarded the Mary Jon and J.P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award from the Texas State Historical Association and the Outstanding American History Teacher Award from the Texas Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars.