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{{Infobox person
| name= Chester Alwyn Barr, Jr.
(Historian and Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University)
| image =
| birth_date =January 18, 1938
| birth_place=
| residence=[[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse=Nancy Dement Barr<br>
'''Two daughters''':<br>
Professors Juliana and Alicia Barr<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Chester, Sr., and Wilma Matlock Barr<br>
| alma_mater=[[University of Texas at Austin]]
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
}}
[[Image:Texas monument at Mansfield Historic Site IMG 2434.JPG|200px|right|thumb|This monument honoring Texas soldiers under [[Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac|Prince Polignac]], at the [[Battle of Mansfield]] in April 1864 was dedicated on the centennial of the battle. Barr's ''Polignac's Texas Brigade'' traces the activities of the unit.]]
'''Chester Alwyn Barr, Jr.''' (born January 18, 1938) is an American historian who specializes in [[African American studies]], the [[Southern United States|American South]], the [[American Civil War]], and [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]].<ref name=ttu /> He is a [[professor]] emeritus and former chairman of the history department at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].
Barr was the only child of Chester A. Barr, Sr. (1885-1973), a native of [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], and the former Wilma Matlock (1905-1987). Barr received his Bachelor of Arts (1959), [[Master of Arts]] (1961), and [[Ph.D.]] (1966) from the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. He joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/archives/99-00CONTENTS/99-00ugfaculty.html|title=Texas Tech University Teaching Faculty|publisher=depts.ttu.edu|accessdate=November 16, 2012, no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>
==Works==
Barr's primary research focus on the history of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the American South, and African Americans. His publications include ''Polignac's Texas Brigade'' (published while he was still in graduate school in 1964, second edition, 1998),<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6smKD4cv3hYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alwyn+barr&source=bl&ots=Zzv_r6IY3s&sig=IR-4hePTdi-B66rEuQbjWTH5gt4&hl=en&ei=Mwy5TO6UNsX6lwft_Im9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Polignac's Texas Brigade|date=March 1, 1998|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|ISBN=978-0-89096-814-7|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> a study of Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac (1832-1913) and the Texan soldiers who fought in 1864 in the Battle of Mansfield south of [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], a victory for the Confederacy. A monument to the Texan soldiers was dedicated at the site on the centennial of the Civil War battle in April 1964. His first major monograph is the 1971 ''Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876-1906'' (later in a second edition, 2000). <ref>Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876–1906. By Alwyn Barr. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. xiv + 315 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.50.) | Journal of American History | Oxford Academic.</ref> Next came the first edition (1973) of ''Black Texans: A History of African-Americans in Texas, 1528-1971'' which he later updated with a new preface, new chapter on 1970-1995, and new index (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=contributor/barr-alwyn|title=Alwyn Barr|publisher=blackpast.org|year=2009, no longer accessible on-line.</ref>
Another Barr work is ''The African Texans'' (2004), which describes the experience of [[free black]]s and [[slaves]] prior to the Civil War and concludes with late 20th-century political developments.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Z-KtTIhDwNIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Barr's+The+African+Texans&source=bl&ots=6NYkFDN0WP&sig=uCtvYGGXsgsjK1GJyU8PsXBpLGo&hl=en&ei=Ow25TISxOcWqlAfQ-bjHDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The African Texans|date=February 19, 2004|publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-58544-321-5 |accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> In 1981 Barr and [[Robert A. Calvert]], late historian at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station]] co-edited ''Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tsusm/00012/tsu-00012.html|title=A Guide to the Robert Calvert Papers, 1970-1995|publisher=Texas Archival Resources Online|accessdate=October 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2000 Barr wrote the introduction to ''Black Cowboys of Texas,'' edited by Sara R. Massey.
In addition to his previously mentioned research interests, Barr has also done extensive research in military history. In 1990, he published a short study entitled ''Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835'' that remains the primary study of the capture of San Antonio by Texans and Tejanos during the [[Texas Revolution]] prior to the fall of the Alamo in the spring of 1836.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=757wbUi7tJYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alwyn+barr&source=bl&ots=FNs9AX23uz&sig=Hug_n8SaTh7GA99a7oSRnX6xSsM&hl=en&ei=wwi5TPOdFoL_8Aab67CpCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835''|publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1990|isbn=978-0-292-78120-7
|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> He has published forty-eight articles in history journals including ''Civil War History,', ''Military Affairs,'' the ''Journal of African American History,'' the ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly,''the ''Social Science Quarterly,'' and ''Military History of the West.'' He secured multiple awards for his teaching, research, and leadership at Texas Tech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanitiestexas.org/about/board/bios.php|title=Board Biographies|publisher=Humanities Texas|year=2007|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> In 1992-1993 academic year, he served as the president of the Texas State Historical Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/publications/books/702|title=Publications|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|date=March 2, 2007|accessdate=October 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2001, Barr received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Texas Tech College of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, he obtained the Faculty Distinguished Leadership Award from the Texas Tech Association of Parents.<ref name=ttu/> In 2011, Barr was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.<ref >"New TIL Members Elected," http://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/newsletters/Jan-Feb-March%202011%20newsletter%20-%20final.htm,no longer accessible on-line.</ref>
More than thirty doctoral students at Texas Tech completed their studies under Barr, and eleven of their dissertations were revised and published as books. He has been a consultant for the [[National Park Service]], National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Texas, the U.S. Department of Justice, Smithsonian Productions, and for the 2006 public [[television]] documentary ''Texas Ranch House,'' a [[reality show]] in which modern Americans attempted to live as they would have in the year 1867.<ref name=ttu>{{cite web|url=http://www.depts.ttu.edu/historydepartment/faculty/profiles/barr_alwyn.php|title=Alwyn Barr|publisher=Texas Tech University|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref>
Among Barr's colleagues at Texas Tech were [[Paul H. Carlson]], [[Allan J. Kuethe]], [[Dan Flores]], and [[Ernest Wallace]]. In 2012, Barr wrote the foreword to the book ''Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity,'' by Glen Sample Ely of [[Fort Worth]]. The book is a new interpretation of the areas west of the 100th meridian which encompass West Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texashistory.com/|title=Texas History.com|publisher=texashistory.com|accessdate=March 25, 2012}}</ref>
Barr and his wife, the former Nancy Dement, reside in Lubbock. Their daughters are Juliana Barr, a professor of history at [[Duke University]] whose best known work is ''Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007),<ref>Juliana Barr | Scholars@Duke profile/ref> and Alicia Barr, a psychology professor at the two-year South Plains College in Levelland west of Lubbock.<ref>Alicia Barr- South Plains College/ref>r
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Alwyn}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:American Authors
[[Category:Professors]]
| name= Chester Alwyn Barr, Jr.
(Historian and Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University)
| image =
| birth_date =January 18, 1938
| birth_place=
| residence=[[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse=Nancy Dement Barr<br>
'''Two daughters''':<br>
Professors Juliana and Alicia Barr<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Chester, Sr., and Wilma Matlock Barr<br>
| alma_mater=[[University of Texas at Austin]]
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
}}
[[Image:Texas monument at Mansfield Historic Site IMG 2434.JPG|200px|right|thumb|This monument honoring Texas soldiers under [[Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac|Prince Polignac]], at the [[Battle of Mansfield]] in April 1864 was dedicated on the centennial of the battle. Barr's ''Polignac's Texas Brigade'' traces the activities of the unit.]]
'''Chester Alwyn Barr, Jr.''' (born January 18, 1938) is an American historian who specializes in [[African American studies]], the [[Southern United States|American South]], the [[American Civil War]], and [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]].<ref name=ttu /> He is a [[professor]] emeritus and former chairman of the history department at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].
Barr was the only child of Chester A. Barr, Sr. (1885-1973), a native of [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], and the former Wilma Matlock (1905-1987). Barr received his Bachelor of Arts (1959), [[Master of Arts]] (1961), and [[Ph.D.]] (1966) from the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. He joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/archives/99-00CONTENTS/99-00ugfaculty.html|title=Texas Tech University Teaching Faculty|publisher=depts.ttu.edu|accessdate=November 16, 2012, no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>
==Works==
Barr's primary research focus on the history of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the American South, and African Americans. His publications include ''Polignac's Texas Brigade'' (published while he was still in graduate school in 1964, second edition, 1998),<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6smKD4cv3hYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alwyn+barr&source=bl&ots=Zzv_r6IY3s&sig=IR-4hePTdi-B66rEuQbjWTH5gt4&hl=en&ei=Mwy5TO6UNsX6lwft_Im9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Polignac's Texas Brigade|date=March 1, 1998|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|ISBN=978-0-89096-814-7|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> a study of Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac (1832-1913) and the Texan soldiers who fought in 1864 in the Battle of Mansfield south of [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], a victory for the Confederacy. A monument to the Texan soldiers was dedicated at the site on the centennial of the Civil War battle in April 1964. His first major monograph is the 1971 ''Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876-1906'' (later in a second edition, 2000). <ref>Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876–1906. By Alwyn Barr. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. xiv + 315 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.50.) | Journal of American History | Oxford Academic.</ref> Next came the first edition (1973) of ''Black Texans: A History of African-Americans in Texas, 1528-1971'' which he later updated with a new preface, new chapter on 1970-1995, and new index (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=contributor/barr-alwyn|title=Alwyn Barr|publisher=blackpast.org|year=2009, no longer accessible on-line.</ref>
Another Barr work is ''The African Texans'' (2004), which describes the experience of [[free black]]s and [[slaves]] prior to the Civil War and concludes with late 20th-century political developments.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Z-KtTIhDwNIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Barr's+The+African+Texans&source=bl&ots=6NYkFDN0WP&sig=uCtvYGGXsgsjK1GJyU8PsXBpLGo&hl=en&ei=Ow25TISxOcWqlAfQ-bjHDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The African Texans|date=February 19, 2004|publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-58544-321-5 |accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> In 1981 Barr and [[Robert A. Calvert]], late historian at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station]] co-edited ''Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tsusm/00012/tsu-00012.html|title=A Guide to the Robert Calvert Papers, 1970-1995|publisher=Texas Archival Resources Online|accessdate=October 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2000 Barr wrote the introduction to ''Black Cowboys of Texas,'' edited by Sara R. Massey.
In addition to his previously mentioned research interests, Barr has also done extensive research in military history. In 1990, he published a short study entitled ''Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835'' that remains the primary study of the capture of San Antonio by Texans and Tejanos during the [[Texas Revolution]] prior to the fall of the Alamo in the spring of 1836.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=757wbUi7tJYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alwyn+barr&source=bl&ots=FNs9AX23uz&sig=Hug_n8SaTh7GA99a7oSRnX6xSsM&hl=en&ei=wwi5TPOdFoL_8Aab67CpCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835''|publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1990|isbn=978-0-292-78120-7
|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> He has published forty-eight articles in history journals including ''Civil War History,', ''Military Affairs,'' the ''Journal of African American History,'' the ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly,''the ''Social Science Quarterly,'' and ''Military History of the West.'' He secured multiple awards for his teaching, research, and leadership at Texas Tech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanitiestexas.org/about/board/bios.php|title=Board Biographies|publisher=Humanities Texas|year=2007|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> In 1992-1993 academic year, he served as the president of the Texas State Historical Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/publications/books/702|title=Publications|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|date=March 2, 2007|accessdate=October 15, 2010}}</ref> In 2001, Barr received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Texas Tech College of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, he obtained the Faculty Distinguished Leadership Award from the Texas Tech Association of Parents.<ref name=ttu/> In 2011, Barr was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.<ref >"New TIL Members Elected," http://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/newsletters/Jan-Feb-March%202011%20newsletter%20-%20final.htm,no longer accessible on-line.</ref>
More than thirty doctoral students at Texas Tech completed their studies under Barr, and eleven of their dissertations were revised and published as books. He has been a consultant for the [[National Park Service]], National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Texas, the U.S. Department of Justice, Smithsonian Productions, and for the 2006 public [[television]] documentary ''Texas Ranch House,'' a [[reality show]] in which modern Americans attempted to live as they would have in the year 1867.<ref name=ttu>{{cite web|url=http://www.depts.ttu.edu/historydepartment/faculty/profiles/barr_alwyn.php|title=Alwyn Barr|publisher=Texas Tech University|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref>
Among Barr's colleagues at Texas Tech were [[Paul H. Carlson]], [[Allan J. Kuethe]], [[Dan Flores]], and [[Ernest Wallace]]. In 2012, Barr wrote the foreword to the book ''Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity,'' by Glen Sample Ely of [[Fort Worth]]. The book is a new interpretation of the areas west of the 100th meridian which encompass West Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texashistory.com/|title=Texas History.com|publisher=texashistory.com|accessdate=March 25, 2012}}</ref>
Barr and his wife, the former Nancy Dement, reside in Lubbock. Their daughters are Juliana Barr, a professor of history at [[Duke University]] whose best known work is ''Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007),<ref>Juliana Barr | Scholars@Duke profile/ref> and Alicia Barr, a psychology professor at the two-year South Plains College in Levelland west of Lubbock.<ref>Alicia Barr- South Plains College/ref>r
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Alwyn}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:American Authors
[[Category:Professors]]