Richard B. McCaslin is Director of Publications for the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) after retiring as the TSHA Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, eight of which earned awards. He has also published more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters, several of which have also won awards. A TSHA Fellow, he has commendations from the Civil War Round Tables in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Shreveport for his academic work.