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Andrew Graybill

Andrew Graybill is chair and professor of history and codirector of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. His latest book (coedited with Adam Arenson) is  Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States.

Territories of Conquest

Territories of Conquest

A new history of the bloodletting that opened the frontier

by Andrew Graybill | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Beyond the Colonies

Beyond the Colonies

What else happened during the year of independence?

by Andrew Graybill | Monday, June 09, 2014
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Tour de Horse

A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains

by Andrew Graybill | Wednesday, December 01, 2010
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”