Andrew J. Torget

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Torget, A.J. (2011). Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers. (June 2011) 96-104. Association for Computational Linguistics workshop on Lanugage Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

Book

• Torget, A.J. (2022). These Ragged Edges: Histories of Slavery along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
• co-edited with Edward L. Ayers. (2007). Two Communities in the Civil War: A Norton Casebook in History.
• co-edited with Edward L. Ayers and Gary W. Gallagher. (2006). Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.

Book Chapter

• Torget, A.J. (2022). “Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections”. Maud Ehrmann, Estelle Bunout, and Frédéric Clavert, eds., Digtised Newspapers – A New El Dorado for Historians: Tools, Methodology, Epistemology, and the Changing Practices of Writing History. Berlin, De Gruyter Press.
• Torget, A.J. (2022). "Smuggling and Violence in the Northern Borderlands of New Spain, 1810-1821". These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
• Torget, A.J. (2022). "The Problem of Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands". These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
• Torget, A.J. (2016). The Problem of Slave Fight in Civil War Texas. Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas. University of Oklahoma Press.
• Torget, A.J. (2015). The Saltillo Slavery Debates: Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Slavery’s Future in Nineteenth-Century North America. Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands.
• Author. (2013). "Stephen F. Austin's Views on Slavery in Early Texas". This Corner of Canaan: Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell.

Book Review

• Torget, A.J. (2018). Review of "The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire" by Karl Jacoby. 98 (4) 735-737.
• Torget, A.J. (2018). Review of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," by Matthew Karp. Journal of Southern History. 84 (3) 735-737.
• Torget, A.J. (2015). Review of Railroaded website (digital appendix of Richard White’s 2011 Railroaded). Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
• Torget, A.J. (2011). Review of Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, edited by Gene Smith and Sylvia Hilton.
• Torget, A.J. (2011). Review of Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, by Charles Grear.
• Torget, A.J. (2007). Review of The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar museum in Richmond, Virginia.
• Torget, A.J. (2004). Review of The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective by Robert Fogel.

Edited Book

• R. B. McCaslin, A. Torget, & D. Chipman. (2013). This Corner of Canaan: Essays in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell. University of North Texas Press.

Encyclopedia Article

• Torget, A.J. (2011). "Texas" in Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, Edward Baptist, ed..
• Torget, A.J. (2008). "Andrew Jackson" and "Quanah Parker" in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty , Donald Fixico, ed., 3 vols..
• Torget, A.J. (2007). "Mexico City Plot (1612)" in The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed..

Journal Article

• Torget, A.J. (2023). "Remembering Randolph B. 'Mike' Campbell". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 126 (3) 291-293.
• with Scott Nesbit and Robert Nelson. (2012). "A Conversation with Digital Historians".
• Co-author. (2012). "Building New Windows into Digitized Newspapers".
• Co-author. (2012). "Mapping Texts: Visualizing American Historical Newspapers".
• Elisa Yang, Andrew J. Torget, Rada Mihalcea. (2011). "Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers".
• Torget, A.J. (2009). "The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools,".
• Torget, A.J. (2006). "Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia," in Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Torget, A.J. (2016). Cotton Farms, Horse Raids, and the Opening of Texas. 7:2 (October 2016) Texas Insights.
• Torget, A.J. (2012). "La Gran Inundacion de San Antonio de Bexar".
• Torget, A.J. (2009). "History Engine: Creating a Writing Assignment for the Digital Age,".

Monograph

• Torget, A.J. (2015). Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. University of North Carolina Press.

Webpage

• Torget, A.J. (2022). Texas History for Teachers Project. https://education.texashistory.unt.edu/
• Torget, A.J. (2021). The Digital Austin Papers (digitalaustinpapers.org). digitalaustinpapers.org

White Paper

• Torget, A.J. (2012). Mapping Texts: Visualizing Digitized Historical Newspapers. National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Torget, A.J. (2010). Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes. National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Torget, A.J., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
• Torget, A.J., "David J. Weber Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America," sponsored by William Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southwestern Methodist University, State, $50000 Funded. (2011 - 2012).

Grant - Service

• Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Co-Principal), "Burdine Johnson Foundation Grant for Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by The Burdine Johnson Foundation, Local, $50000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Co-Principal), "Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation grant to Texas History for Teachers Project," sponsored by The Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation, Local, $7500 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
• Torget, A.J., "Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by Summerlee Foundation, State, $25000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
• Beebe, K. (Co-Principal), Martin, J. (Co-Principal), Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Learning from Mentors to Create a Center for Digital Humanities at UNT," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
• Torget, A.J., "Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by Pevehouse Family Foundation, State, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Principal), "Texas History for Teachers Project," sponsored by Humanities Texas, NFP, Funded. (2021 - 2022).