East Texas Historical Association

Lock Research Grant

A number of research grant awards involving East Texas history will be made annually, usually in amounts of $500 to $1000. Applications will be accepted on our form, and should include name, address of the researcher (with biographical data), the purpose for which the funds would be spent, a general statement of anticipated benefit and uses

Deadlines: All nominations must be submitted BEFORE May 1 of each year. Click here for the electronic form or here for the application form (pdf). Completed applications should be mailed to:

Ottis Lock Endowment Committee
East Texas Historical Association
Box 6223, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-6223

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Project
1985	James W. Smallwood	"Freedwomen After Emancipation: The Texas Experience"
	D. Jack Davis	"Nineteenth Century East Texas Silversmiths"
	Priscilla M. Benham	"Texas City: Its Role in the Petroleum Industry"
1986	Diana Church	"A Guide to Dallas Artist, 1890-1917"
	Bill O'Neal	"The East Texas Baseball League"
	Randolph B. Campbell	"Grassroots Republicanism in ReconstructionTexas-1867-1880"
	David V. Stroud	"Ector's Texas Brigade & the Army of Tennessee"
	Paul Lack	"The Texas Revolutionary Experience, 1835-1836"
1987	Gregg Cantrell	"Rayner & the Limits of Southern Politics"
	Bruce Olson	"The Modern American Militia Experience 1865-1985: East Texas as a Case Study"
	Elizabeth H. Turner	"Benevolent Ladies, Civic Women, & Suffragists in Galveston, 1880-1920"
1988	Donald E. Chipman	"Spanish Texas 1519-1821"
	Pamela L. Palmer	"Let Me Grow Lovely: A Biography of Karle Wilson Baker"
	Linda Cross	"Oral History World War II and Vietnam War"
	A. John Impson	"The Political Career of Martin Dies, 1930-1945"
1989	Jodella D. Kite	"A Social History of the Anglo-American Colonies in Mexican, Texas, 1821-1835"
	Aletha R. Nelligan	"Who Shot Frank Henry Morgan?"
1990	Linda S. Hudson	"Individual Knights of the Golden Circle"
	Lauren A. Kattner	"German-African-American Catholics in Galveston"
	Kyle Grant Wilkison	"The Role of Merchants in the Economic Development of the Houston-Galveston Region"
1991	Suzanne L. Summers	"The Role of Merchants in the Economic Development of the Houston-Galveston Region"
1992	Nancy C. Beck	"Wright Patman & the Politics of Compromise: A Study in Congressional Leadership"
	David L. LaVere	"The Caddo System: Caddo-Euro-American Relations in the Colonial Hide Trade, 1685-1803"
1993	Daniel A. Hickerson	"Hasinai Social Organization during the Spanish Colonial Period"
1994	Steve A. Reich	"Rural Transformation & Social Change in the Piney Woods of East Texas 1880-1940"
1995	Linda S. Hudson	"Jane McManus Storms Cazneau: Empresario"
	Juliana Barr	"The Politics of Gender, Sexuality & Race in the Conquests of Texas 1690-1848"
1996	Kristin M. Szylvian	"Beaumont's Multimax Village: Housing for World War II Industrial Workers"
	Bernadette Pruitt	"Southwest Bound: The Migration Experience of African Americans to Houston, 1890-1930"
1997	Gail Beil	"Texas' First African American Ph.D., James Leonard Farmer"
	Bill O'Neal	"Tex Ritter, A Biography"
1998	Gail Beil	"Dr. J. Leonard Farmer: Texas' 1st Black Ph.D."
	Mark E. Miller	"Other Than In Between: Unrecognized Indians and the State" (Alabama-Coushatta)
1999	Debra Reid	"Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform: The "Negro" Cooperative Extension Service in Texas"
	Terry Lee Rioux	"George Washington Carroll: A Biography"
2000	John Longstreet	"Resignation of Lt Col Philip Work, Commander 1st Texas Regiment, Texas Brigade"
	Richard Orton	"Freedmen Community Documentation Project"
	Mark Barringer	"Forest Industries and Social Structures in East Texas Communities"
	William A. Henslee	"Cannibal Indians of East Texas: Myth or Reality?"
2001	David Gold	"Power to the People: Alternative Sites of Rhetorical Education"
	Bill O'Neal	"Homes of the Chief Executives of Texas"
2002	Robert R. Perkinson	"Texas Justice and the Triumph of the American Prison"
2003	Kenneth W. Howell	"James Webb Throckmorton: A Southern Frontier Politician, 1825-1894"
	Karen Kossie-Chernyshev	"Mapping the Early Missionary Impulse of African-American Pentecostals in the Southwest"
2004	Pamela Lippold	"Recollections: Revisiting the Beaumont Riot of 1943"
	Richard L. Merrill	"The Construction of the 'Big Inch' and 'Little Big Inch' Pipelines"
2005	Gail K Beil	"Hobart Jarrett"
	Deborah Cole	"Chickens Today, Feathers Tomorrow: The History of the Poultry Industry in East Texas"
2006	Linda S. Hudson	"Slave Cases in the Texas Supreme Court (332 Cases in 78 Counties)"
	Susannah U. Bruce	"Hood's Texans: A History of the Texas Brigade and Southern Society in the American Civil War"
	Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.	"George Washington Armstrong: Legacy of Hate"
2007	Carol Taylor	"The Mercer Colony"
	Jennifer M. Brancato	"Durst-Taylor House: A Glimpse of Life in East Texas "
	John W. Garbutt	"We Were Soil Soldiers"
2008	Lauren A. Kerr	"African American Female Physicians in Houston from 1945-2000"
2008	Merry Williams Ressler	"Desegregation of Cooper , Texas ISD-What Took So Long?"
2009	Pat Hughes	"Jimmie Allred: the Man in the Arena"
2010	Steven Reich	"The Social World of East Texas and Southwest Louisiana Lumber Industry"
	Carolyn White	" The Texas Capitol: Connecting Scotland and the Gilded Age "