Kenneth W. Howell, Ph.D.

Kenneth W. Howell received his B.S. degree in history from the University of Texas at Tyler, his M.A. degree in history from Texas A&M University–Commerce, and his Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University in College Station. He taught for twelve years in the Texas public school system before moving into higher education. Howell has taught at several colleges and universities during his professional career, including Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University (College Station), North Harris Montgomery Community College (now Lone Star College–Montgomery Campus), and Trinity Valley Community College. He currently serves as a Professor of History and Head of the History Department at Blinn College.

Howell has several publications that focus on the history of Texas and the Old South, including Henderson County, Texas, 1846–1861: An Antebellum History (Eakin Press, 1999); The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction (Best of East Texas Publisher, 2007; reprint University of North Texas, 2019); Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton (Texas A&M University Press, 2008); Beyond Myths and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas, 7th edition (Abigail Press, 2023); Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War, ed. (University of North Texas Press, 2009); Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865–1874 (University of North Texas Press, 2012); Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836–1845 (University of Texas Press, 2017); “George Adams: A Cowboy All His Life,” in Black Cowboy of Texas, ed. Sarah Massey (Texas A&M University Press, 2000); “Black Women in the Modern Era, 1974–2000,” in African American Women in Texas: A Collaborative History, eds. Bruce Glasrud and Meriline Pitre (Texas A&M University Press, 2008); and “When the Rabble Hiss, Well May Patriots Tremble: James Webb Throckmorton and the Secession Movement in Texas, 1845–1861,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (April 2006).

Additionally, Howell has published numerous articles and book reviews in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, East Texas State Historical Journal, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, The Southern Historian, West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, the Journal of South Texas, Diálogos Latinamericanos, and Central Texas Studies: The Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association.