Brenham Heritage Museum: Crossroads Speaker Series (James Kearney, PhD)
December 17, 2024
Please join us at the Brenham Heritage Museum Bus Depot and Gallery on Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 from 5:30-6:30 pm for a fascinating lecture by University of Texas at Austin Professor James Kearney. The topic of his discussion will be: “The Affair of 1885.”
Professor James Kearney specializes in Texan-German history and is the author of four books: Nassau Plantation; The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation, Friedrichsburg; The Colony of the German Fürstenverein, Detlef Dunt’s Travels to Texas in 1834, and No Hope for Heaven; No Fear of Hell: Private Justice in Colorado County. Professor Kearney’s book Friedrichsburg received the Summerfield G. Roberts award for the best book on Texas history for the year 2012.