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A fixture at Lamar University for more than fifty years, Ralph A. Wooster
taught courses on the Civil War, southern
history, and Nazi Germany prior to his retirement in December 2006. He has authored nine books: The Secession Conventions of
the South (Princeton University Press, 1962); The People in Power:
Courthouse and Statehouse in the Lower South, 1850-1860 (University of
Tennessee Press, 1969); Politicians, Planters, and Plain Folk: Courthouse and Statehouse in the Upper South, 1850-1860 (University of
Tennessee Press, 1975); Texas and Texans in the Civil War (Eakin Press,
1995); Texas in the Civil War (Texas State Historical Association,
1999); Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide (Texas State Historical
Association, 1999); Lone Star Generals in Gray (Eakin Press, 2000);
Lone Star Regiments in Gray (Eakin Press, 2002); and Texas and Texans in World
War II (Eakin Press, 2005). He also co-authored the state-adopted
textbook, Texas and Texans (McGraw-Hill) and edited Texas Vistas:
Selections from the
Southwestern Historical Quarterly (Texas State
Historical Association, 1980, 1987, 2006) and Lone Star Blue and Gray:
Essays on Texas in the Civil War (Texas State Historical Association,
1995). Dr. Wooster has written more than seventy scholarly articles
for the East Texas Historical Journal, the Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, Civil War History, the Georgia Historical
Quarterly, the
Florida Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, and other
publications. One-time chair of the history department, dean of
graduate studies, dean of faculties, and associate vice president for
academic affairs at Lamar, he also served as president of the Texas
Association of College Teachers, the Texas State Historical Association,
and the East Texas Historical Association. He earned numerous
teaching awards recognizing his excellence in the classroom.
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