Lunchtime Lectures: How Mexico's Far North Became the American Southwest

Based on his book, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation or the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850, Dr. Andrew Torget tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed Northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States.

Dr. Torget is an historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas.

For ADULTS and TEENS.  You are welcome to bring your lunch!  Registration not required.

Please call Vrena Patrick at 972-744-4376 for more information.