DR. WALTER BUENGER TO SPEAK AT NEXT BHM ‘CROSSROADS’ PROGRAM

  

A history professor will present the next program in the Brenham Heritage Museum’s “Crossroads” speaker series.

Dr. Walter Buenger, who instructs at the University of Texas at Austin, will cover “German Experience in Washington County” on Tuesday, January 7^th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Julie and Larry Tegeler Bus Depot Gallery.  The speaker series is being held in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program in Brenham.

In his program, Dr. Buenger will explore key themes including German migration to Texas in the 1800s, the challenges German Texans faced in preserving their heritage, and patterns of assimilation into the mid-1900s. 

Dr. Buenger has written or co-written four books, co-edited three more, and authored numerous articles and book chapters.  His main areas of interest have been the connections between Texas and the South, Texas identity, historiography, the role of memory, the influence of borders, and the construction and evolution of culture in the Southwest. 

Dr. Buenger recently published a co-edited and extensively annotated version of the autobiography of William A. Trenckmann, a German language newspaperman and politician who was born in Texas in 1859 and died in Austin in 1935.  He is also writing a re-conceptualization of Texas and the Southwest with the tentative title, “Texas Since 1810: Border Crossings and Shifting Identities over Time.”

The program is sponsored in part by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ant Street Inn/Main Street House.

Admission is free for museum members, $5 for non-members.  Seating is limited, so attendees are asked to RSVP by emailing admin@brenhamheritagemuseum.org.