Volume 59, Number 1: Summer 2023

On November 5, 2022, community leaders, business owners, educators, scholars, and other concerned people met at the Extreme Weather and Inequality Conference at Lamar University. Organized by Ancient to the Future and hosted by the Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, the meeting tackled the history, economic and social inequality, African American and Latinx inequality, extreme weather, and future of the region.

With a generous contribution from Ancient to the Future and the cooperation of the Texas Gulf Historical Society, this special issue of The Record contains the complete proceedings of the conference. The volume also includes Katherine Hoerth's poem “Flare Stack Eden” from her collection Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (2022) which captures well the themes discussed at the conference. Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, and Dave Williams of Ancient to the Future provide an introductory overview. Each section includes the presentations from the panelists and the discussions that followed.     

TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Meeting October 17, 2023

The Texas Gulf Historical Society will convene its next meeting on October 17, 7:00 pm, at the McFaddin–Ward House Visitor Center (1906 Calder Ave, Beaumont, TX 77701). Penny Clark, archivist at the Lamar University Archives and Special Collections will present on her research about the campus and community during World War II.

The Record Digitized--Now Available

The Texas Gulf Historical Society has partnered with the Portal to Texas History to digitize past issues of The Record. Volumes 1 (1965) through 55 (2020) are now available and fully word-searchable. The Portal is a crucial online resource offered by the University of North Texas Libraries. This partnership makes The Record accessible to scholars worldwide and preserved for future researchers. The Society will make more recent volumes available soon.

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