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|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>

|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>

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 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>

Among Barr's colleagues at Texas Tech were  [[Paul H. Carlson]],  [[Allan 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

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>