The Texas Revolution

William Campbell Binkley, historian and teacher, was born on April 30, 1889, at Newbern, Tennessee. He studied history at the University of California, where he received a B.A. (1917), an M.A. (1918), and a Ph.D. (1920). Binkley began teaching history at Colorado College in 1921 and became a full professor in 1925. He was a student of the history of the West and the frontier, but his special interest was Texas history. From 1930 to 1953 he was professor and chairman of the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. In 1953 he was named professor of history at Tulane University and editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, positions he held until his retirement in 1963; he was given an honorary LL.D. degree by Tulane in 1964.