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1 John Joseph Leffler ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª EDUCATION: Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin, Major field: Late 19th-century American culture. Minor field: The history of Mexico. M.A., History, Portland State University, Concentration: The history of Latin America. B.A., History, College of William and Mary, EMPLOYMENT: Instructor, History, University Extension, Division of Continuing and Innovative Education, University of Texas at Austin, January-May 1996, January 1997-present. Historical Consultant (various contracts: see listings below), May 1995-present. Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, August-December 1996, May-July Assistant Professor (part-time), History, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, August 1993-August Senior Writer (half time), Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, September 1994-April Editorial and Research Consultant, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, November September Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, August 1992-August Assistant Professor, History, Southwest Texas State University [now Texas State University], San Marcos, Texas, August May Research Associate for Local and Regional Studies (South Texas), Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, January- September Assistant Instructor, History, University of Texas at Austin, January- May1989, July-December Instructor, History, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, January 1986-December 1988, June-December Teaching Assistant, History, University of Texas at Austin, September 1982-May Research Assistant, Washington County Museum, Hillsboro, Oregon, September 1981-June 1982.

2 Leffler vita, page 2. COURSES TAUGHT: SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS: The United States to 1877 (first half of survey); The United States since1877 (second half of survey); American Civilization (one-semester survey); World Civilizations II (second half of survey); Texas History; The U.S. in the 1890s; The U.S. in the Great Depression; The U.S. since 1945; The U.S. and the Cold War; The U.S. in the 1960s; The U.S. in Vietnam; War and American Society; World War II in American Film and Literature; The Individual in American History; The Mexican Revolution; Unity and Diversity (section of Freshman Symposium course). Farmers, Ranchers, the Land and the Falls: A History of the Pedernales Falls Area, Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, McDonald, James Green, Jr. [February, 2009], The Handbook of Texas Online, on the internet at MM/fmceb.html The Kreisches and Their World: The Kreische Family, the Bluff Community, and Life on Kreische s Bluff, Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Review of The Vietnam Experience [an exhibit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, Texas], in The Public Historian 28:3 (May, 2006), pp A Hill Country Icon: The Life and Legend of the Nimitz Hotel, Fredericksburg, Texas." Study submitted to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, July "Every Child a Wanted Child": The History of Planned Parenthood in Austin, Austin: Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, Inc., Historic Williamson County: An Illustrated History. San Antonio: Williamson County Historical Commission and Lammert Publications, Vietnam War-based fiction seems more fictional than most. Review of John Mulligan s Shopping Cart Soldiers in The Dallas Morning News, November 16, American Ambivalence on the Eve of the Spanish-American War. Paper presented at the William McKinley Centennial Conference, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, March 15, "Ida Saxton McKinley," in Lewis L. Gould, ed., American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy. First edition, New York: Garland, 1996, pp Second edition, New York and London: Routledge, 2001, pp

3 Leffler vita, p. 3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS "La Salle County," "Refugio County," Dimmit County, and forty- AND PAPERS, ctd. six other histories of Texas counties, and histories of sixty-one Texas cities and towns, in The New Handbook of Texas. 6 vols. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, (See comprehensive listings below.) Review of Robert V. Friedenberg, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Militant Decency, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 90:2 (Spring, 1992), p From the Shadows into the Sun: Americans in the Spanish- American War. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, "The Paradox of Patriotism: Texans in the Spanish-American War." Hayes Historical Journal 8:3 (Spring, 1989), pp Learning to Love the Rope. Austin: Dept. of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1985 and A guide to graduate study in history. The Johnson Years. Austin: Lyndon Johnson Library and Museum, publication no. 1, A children s guide to the museum. CONTRACT STUDIES: Research, writing and editing contract with Lois Oppenheimer and Claire Oppenheimer O Malley, San Antonio, Texas, December 2007-present. For some of the fruits of this contract see Washer, Nathaniel Moses [January, 2009], The Handbook of Texas Online, on the internet at htm. Research contract with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department related to the history of Big Bend Ranch State Park, January- August Included research conducted at the Texas State Library and Archives, the Center for American History at the University of Texas-Austin, at the National Archives and Record Administration s central branch in Washington, D.C. and at the NARA II branch in College Park, Maryland. Historical Investigations Concerning the Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site, Grimes County, Texas, June-August Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed August Oral History Interviews with Hardy Johnson of Liberty Hill, Texas, September 12 and September 26, Oral history report for the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Preserve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, completed October 2008.

4 Leffler vita, page 4 CONTRACT STUDIES, ctd. From Bluff to Hostyn: The Rise and Decline of the Bluff Community, Fayette County, Texas. Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed February, "A Hill Country Icon: The Life and Legend of the Nimitz Hotel, Fredericksburg, Texas." Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed July "Camp Bullis Kameraden: The German Prisoner of War Compound at Camp Bullis, Texas during World War II." Study for the Center for Archaeological Research, UT-San Antonio, completed April Published as "Historic Context in Richard B. Mahoney, Intensive Survey and Text Excavations at 41BX1576: A World War II POW Camp at Camp Bullis Military Reservation, Bexar County, Texas. San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio [UTSA], 2004, pp History project for Planned Parenthood of the Capital of Texas Region, Inc. Researched and wrote a history of the organization (see Selected Publications and Papers above); was also the historical consultant, script writer and editor for a 30-minute documentary film, "'Every Child a Wanted Child': The History of Planned Parenthood in Austin, " (filmed and directed by Rob Burnason). Project completed November, Researcher and writer, Texas Birdseye research project. Study to determine veracity and cultural context of 19 th -century "bird's eye view" lithographs of various Texas cities. Contract with Dr. Ron Tyler, Director of the Texas State Historical Association, Some of the fruits of this research can be found on the internet at "Land, Water and Sky: The History of Sheldon Lake State Park and the Surrounding Area, " Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed December, "'Kind of a Hard Old Country': Oral Histories from the Balcones Canyonlands (II)." Continuation of oral history project for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, completed August, "From Plantations to Parade Grounds: The History of the Camp Mabry Area, " Study for the Center for Archaeological Studies, Southwest Texas State University, completed February, Published in Richard S. Jones and John J. Leffler, Phase I and II Archaeological Investigations on Camp Mabry, Travis County, Texas. San Marcos: Center for Archaeological Studies, Texas State University, 2003, pp

5 Leffler vita, page 5 CONTRACT STUDIES, ctd. "Ranchers, Farmers, Soldiers and the CCC: Seven Historical Sites at Camp Bowie, Texas." Study for the Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, completed November, Published in John Leffler, Ranchers, Farmers, Soldiers and the CCC: The Background for Seven Historical Sites at Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas. San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, UTSA, "'Kind of a Hard Old Country': Oral Histories from the Balcones Canyonlands." Oral history project for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, completed July "The History of the Camp Swift Area, " Study for the Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, completed March, Published in David G. Robinson, Timothy Meade, et al, An Archaeological Inventory of Camp Swift, Bastrop County, Texas. San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, UTSA, 2001, pp "The History of Camp Maxey and Its Environs, " Study for the Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, completed January, Published in A.S. Lyle, T.K. Pertulla and S.A. Tomka, Camp Maxey II: A 5,000- acre Survey of Camp Maxey, Lamar County, Texas. San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, UTSA, A subsequent contract, completed in December, 2000, entailed writing and illustrating a pamphlet-length history of Camp Maxey for public distribution. "The History of the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge and its Environs, " Study for the Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, completed June, Published in Steve A. Tomka and John Leffler, A Cultural Overview and Assessment of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge (San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, UTSA, 1998), pp Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park and Its Environs, Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed May, Chief researcher, writer and historical consultant for the Williamson County Sesquicentennial Project, Austin American-Statesman, January-September, The resulting Williamson County Sesquicentennial Commemorative Edition (September 27, 1998) won an award from the Texas Historical Foundation in April 2000 for its "excellent" articles, maps and photographs.

6 Leffler vita, page 6 CONTRACT STUDIES, ctd. San Gabriel Park. Study commissioned by a private individual for a historical marker application, completed June, The marker was approved by the Texas Historical Commission later that year and erected in Georgetown, Texas in The History of the Texas Methodist Foundation. Study for the Texas Methodist Foundation, completed December, The History of the Copper Breaks and Environs, Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, completed August, Published in John Leffler, The History of the Copper Breaks and Environs, Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Cultural Resources Program, "The History of the Pedernales Falls Area, " Study for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department completed August, Revised version published as "Historical Background," in Margaret Howard, Amy Ringstaff, and John J. Leffler, et al, Archeological Survey and History of Pedernales Falls State Park, Blanco County, Texas. Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Cultural Resources Program, "Fort McKavett and Its Environs, " Study completed for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, August, 1995; published in Amy C. Earls and John Leffler, Fort McKavett: Archeological Investigations for Fort Stabilization and Restoration, Fort McKavett State Historical Park, Menard County, Texas: Seasons. Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1996, pp ARTICLES IN Histories of the following Texas counties, towns and cities THE NEW were published in The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols. Austin: HANDBOOK Texas State Historical Association, 1996): OF TEXAS Histories of Texas counties [Sole author]: Brown; Cochran; Comanche; Cottle; Crane; Crosby; Dickens; Dimmit; Eastland; Ector; Foard; Freestone; Glasscock; Hale; Hamilton; Haskell; Hockley; King; La Salle; Live Oak; Midland; Motley; Palo Pinto; Refugio; Scurry; Sterling; Throckmorton; Walker; Wilbarger; Yoakum; Young. Histories of Texas Counties [Co-author]:. Bailey; Blanco; Borden; Coke; Irion; Martin; Mills; Oldham; Pecos; Potter; Swisher; Terry; Trinity; Upton; Waller; Ward; Washington; Webb; Wheeler.

7 Leffler vita, p. 7 NEW HANDBOOK Histories of Texas towns and cities: [Sole author] OF Argenta; Artesia Wells; Asherton; Atlee; Big Wells; Brundage; TEXAS, ctd. Calliham; Carrizo Springs; Catarina; Concan; Cool; Cottle; Cornelia; Cross; Crowther; Dentonio; Dull s Ranch; Echo; Encinal; Farmington; Fowlerton; Frio; Gardendale; Guajoco; Harris Valley; Gussettville; Iuka; Killeen; Kittie; La Grange; Lapara; Las Vegas; Lebanon; Loma Alta; Los Angeles; Midland; Mount Lucas; Navasota; Nazareth; Nell; Nopal; Ottowa; Pacific; Palm Valley; Palm; Prairie Hill; Refugio; Richmond; Souz Creek; Stuart s Rancho; Swinney Switch; Tilden; Tuna; Turkey; Valley Wells; Wentz; Winter Haven; Woodward; Zella. ACADEMIC AWARDS: Commendations for Excellence in Teaching, University of Texas at Austin, School of Continuing Education, 2002, 2003, Annual Graduate Scholarship Award, Society of the Colonial Dames of Texas, University Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Fellowship Year in Military History, U.S. Army Center for Military History, 1986 (declined). Finalist, National Graduate Fellowship Competition, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1985 VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES: Precinct Captain, Obama Campaign, Precinct 242, Travis County, Texas, February-June 2008; Precinct 242 delegate to Travis County Democratic Convention, March 2008; Travis County delegate to Texas Democratic Party Convention, June Member, Citizen s Textbook Advisory Board, Austin Independent School District, Editor of the Brentsider, weekly newsletter published by the Brentwood Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association, Austin, Fall, Head coach, "Mustang" League Vikings, 1996 and Astros, 1997, North Austin Optimist Baseball Assn., Austin. Assistant coach for various teams, Presentations on American slavery for various classes at Brentwood Elementary School, Austin, Literacy tutor, Austin/Travis County Literacy Council,

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Texas. Number of Army Reserve Members Deployed to OIF/OEF since 9/11/2001 by Home of Record County. Number of Service Members. Army Reserve Members Deployed to OIF/OEF since 9/11/2001 by Home of Record Anderson 20 Carson 2 Donley 4 Hamilton Andrews 7 Cass 16 Duval 11 Hansford Angelina 14 Castro 1 Eastland 8 Hardeman Aransas 5