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Professor of History, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Taught at Western Washington University; University of Nevada, Reno; University of Texas at Dallas
Graduate, PhD, Southern Methodist University
Graduate, MA & BA, University of Texas at Arlington

Author of The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion (2017).
Editor of Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion (2019).
Editor of The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare (2013).
Author of More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane (2008).
Editor of The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record (2013-present).

Email: jlbryan@lamar.edu
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Professor of History, Lamar University, Beaumont, TXTaught at Western Washington University; University of Nevada, Reno; University of Texas at DallasGraduate, PhD, Southern Methodist University Graduate, MA & BA, University of Texas at Arlington

Professor of History, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Taught at Western Washington University; University of Nevada, Reno; University of Texas at Dallas
Graduate, PhD, Southern Methodist University
Graduate, MA & BA, University of Texas at Arlington