James Smallwood is Emeritus Professor of History at Oklahoma State University. He has also taught at Texas A&M at Commerce, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Texas Tech Unive...ver maisJames Smallwood is Emeritus Professor of History at Oklahoma State University. He has also taught at Texas A&M at Commerce, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Texas Tech University, the University of Texas at Tyler, Seton Hall University in New Jersey, and the University of Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of sixteen books. His Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction won the Texas State Historical Association’s Coral Tullis Award in 1982 for the best book of the year on Texas history. His most recent book, The Indian Texans, won the Texas Library Association’s 2005 Texas Reference Source Award.
Smallwood has also edited fourteen books, including ten on the writings of Will Rogers, Oklahoma’s Favorite Son. He is a fellow of both the Texas State Historical Association and the East Texas Historical Association.ver menos