Author Archives: Bryson Kisner
I had the opportunity to share portions of the dissertation project this April at the Tenth Annual Rice-Unicamp-Mora Seminar, hosted by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicampi), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Sharing this story in this setting, in an audience of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Yguanés (Yowani) Choctaw
The Yowani Choctaw had emigrated into Texas in the mid-eighteenth century, assimilating into the larger Caddo cultural and political body. Lino Sánchez y Tapía created this illustration to accompany naturalist Jean Luis Berlandier’s, and army officers’ Manuel de Pier y … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
‘Mapa topográfico de la provincia de Texas,’ 1822(?)
This map, hosted by the Library of Congress (https://lccn.loc.gov/98687158), depicts Texas immediately after Mexico’s independence from the Spanish Empire. The map is attributed to Stephen F. Austin, the first of the empresarios (colonization administrators) whom the young Mexican state allowed … Continue reading
Introductions & Abstract
Hello, and welcome! I’m Bryson Kisner, a Ph.D. candidate in rice University’s History Department. I primarily study the nineteenth-century U.S. and the U.S. South through the lenses of environmental and borderlands history. I also dabble in longer periodizations and broader … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Hello world!
Welcome to Rice University Blogs. Either start blogging right away or take a few minutes to turn your blog into a normal web site!
Posted in Document: Image, Uncategorized
1 Comment