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==Academic career==

==Academic career==

A popular teacher, McDonald regularly published articles and books. He was an officer in all of the academic historical associations of which he was affiliated during his lengthy academic career. Many said that his presence was a significant factor in the reputation of Stephen F. Austin University, particularly throughout Texas. He w a past president of Texas State Historical Association, chairman of the Texas Committee of Humanities, and executive officer of the Texas State Library and the Texas Historical Commission. He was the executive director  of the East Texas Historical Association, based in Nacogdoches, and the editor of ''The East Texas Historical Journal'' from 1971 to 2008. He was  also an editor of ''The New Handbook of Texas'' and ''The Journal of Confederate History.'' He wrote and/or edited nearly fifty publications during his career. He wrote columns for ''The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel'' [[newspaper]] and presented a weekly commentary on the Red River Station, the [[National Public Radio]] outlet in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. SFA awarded McDonald every honor that the university bestowed, including Regents' Professor and Distinguished Alumni Professor. He received the J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award, the Faculty Achievement Award, and two awards from the Texas Historical Commission. SFA and the City of Nacogdoches established in his honor the Archie P. McDonald Speaker Series, which brought to campus such personalities as boxer [[George Foreman]], astronaut Alan Bean, and former [[United States Secretary of State]] [[James A. Baker III (Secretary of State)|James A. Baker, III]] of Houston, close associate of the late [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].<ref name=findagrave/>

A popular teacher, McDonald regularly published articles and books. He was an officer in all of the academic historical associations of which he was affiliated during his lengthy academic career. Many said that his presence was a significant factor in the reputation of Stephen F. Austin University, particularly throughout Texas. He w a past president of Texas State Historical Association, chairman of the Texas Committee of Humanities, and executive officer of the Texas State Library and the Texas Historical Commission. He was the executive director  of the East Texas Historical Association, based in Nacogdoches, and the editor of ''The East Texas Historical Journal'' from 1971 to 2008.<ref name=findagrave/>

 

He was  also an editor of ''The New Handbook of Texas'' and ''The Journal of Confederate History.'' He wrote and/or edited nearly fifty publications during his career. He wrote columns for ''The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel'' [[newspaper]] and presented a weekly commentary on the Red River Station, the [[National Public Radio]] outlet in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. SFA awarded McDonald every honor that the university bestowed, including Regents' Professor and Distinguished Alumni Professor. He received the J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award, the Faculty Achievement Award, and two awards from the Texas Historical Commission. SFA and the City of Nacogdoches established in his honor the Archie P. McDonald Speaker Series, which brought to campus such personalities as boxer [[George Foreman]], astronaut Alan Bean, and former [[United States Secretary of State]] [[James A. Baker III (Secretary of State)|James A. Baker, III]] of Houston, close associate of the late [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].<ref name=findagrave/>

===Selected book titles===

===Selected book titles===

*''Nacogdoches: Wilderness Outpost to Modern City, 1779 to 1979.'' (2009), with Hardy Meredith<br>

*''Nacogdoches: Wilderness Outpost to Modern City, 1779 to 1979.'' (2009), with Hardy Meredith<br>

*''Nacogdoches'' (2009), with Hardy Meredith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/313031.Archie_P_McDonald|title=Books by Archie P. McDonald|publisher=Goodreads.com|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

*''Nacogdoches'' (2009), with Hardy Meredith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/313031.Archie_P_McDonald|title=Books by Archie P. McDonald|publisher=Goodreads.com|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

McDonald was the editor of the [[Texas A&M University]] historian [[J. Milton Nance]]]' s 1964 book, ''Dare-Devils All: The Texan Mier Expedition, 1842-1844'' (ISBN 978-1-57168-214-7). A volume of more than seven hundred pages, ''Dare-Devils All,'' is the full account of the Mier Expedition, a Texas [[militia]] which attacked the [[Mexico|Mexican]] border community of Ciudad Mier on December 26, 1842. The men were seeking financial gain and retaliation for the Dawson Massacre in which thirty-six Texans had been killed by the Mexican Army. In the infamous black bean episode of the Mier Expedition, the Texans were forced to draw black or white beans from a pot to determine who would be allowed to live and who would be killed by firing squad. Seventeen drew black beans from a pot of mostly white beans and, along with one other who drew a white bean, were executed on March 25, 1843. ''Dare-Devils All'' was shortened to 547 pages and re-released in December 1997, after Nance's death, under McDonald's editorship.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/1571682147|title=Dare-Devils All: The Texan Mier Expedition, 1842-1844|publisher=Eakin|date=December 1, 1997|isbn=1-57168-214-7|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>​

McDonald was the editor of the [[Texas A&M University]] historian [[J. Milton Nance]]]' s 1964 book, ''Dare-Devils All: The Texan Mier Expedition, 1842-1844'' (ISBN 978-1-57168-214-7). A volume of more than seven hundred pages, ''Dare-Devils All,'' is the full account of the Mier Expedition, a Texas [[militia]] which attacked the [[Mexico|Mexican]] border community of Ciudad Mier on December 26, 1842. The men were seeking financial gain and retaliation for the Dawson Massacre in which thirty-six Texans had been killed by the Mexican Army. In the infamous black bean episode of the Mier Expedition, the Texans were forced to draw black or white beans from a pot to determine who would be allowed to live and who would be killed by firing squad. Seventeen drew black beans from a pot of mostly white beans and, along with one other who drew a white bean, were executed on March 25, 1843. ''Dare-Devils All'' was shortened to 547 pages and re-released in December 1997, after Nance's death, under McDonald's editorship.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/1571682147|title=Dare-Devils All: The Texan Mier Expedition, 1842-1844|publisher=Eakin|date=December 1, 1997|isbn=1-57168-214-7|accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>​