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The article discusses various topics related to the field of Southwestern U.S. history. It presents a call for papers for the 117th Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to be held in Fort Worth, Texas, from February 28 to March 2, 2013. The author announces that the 2012 annual convention of the North American Society of Oceanic Historians (NASOH) will take place at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston, Texas from April 22 to April 26, 2012. The article also lists individuals who have become members of the TSHA, including Susan Edwards, Carol Sayle, and Levi Goode.

The article discusses anticlericalism and Christian activism in Texas around the turn of the twentieth century. It comments on the views of anticlerical activists on the roles of religious fanaticism in Western history, Catholicism, and Islam. The author examines questions of moral reform and prohibition and reflects on activists' views that government should be influenced by Christianity. Individuals considered include U.S. Senator from Texas Morris Sheppard, author Homer Thrall, and attorney Otis Bowyer.

The article examines the concepts of Americanism and conservatism in the conflict between former Houston Independent School District board member and president Ray K. Daily and the conservative groups in Houston, Texas in 1943-1952. According to the author, the conservative groups opposed Daily because of her support for progressive education. Daily's views on education put her in direct conflict with Houstonians who advocated a different role for the American school system.

Focuses on the evolution of Mexican-American Catholicism in San Antonio, Texas from 1910 to 1940. Missionaries, revolution abroad and anticlericalism; Mexican immigration, church structures and the colonia; Transformations in Mexican Catholicism; Priests, popular piety and the depression decade; Mexican-American Catholicism and the growth of San Antonio.

The article discusses the Spanish influenza epidemic in San Antonio, Texas, in 1918. The article examines the epidemic's impact across the U.S., particularly in Massachusetts, and its spread to the western part of the U.S. It also presents information concerning health crises in Texas prior to 1918, the perception of Texas as a health haven during the early part of the 20th century, and efforts by San Antonio officials to publicize the benefits of the city. According to the article, influenza in San Antonio first spread in September 1918 within San Antonio U.S. military bases. The article also discusses efforts by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) to disseminate information concerning influenza, newspaper advertising, and efforts of the relief organization the Red Cross.

The article discusses the history of the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas, which opened in 1966 and replaced Houston's City Auditorium, which was demolished in 1963. It examines the context of Houston in the 1960s, commenting on post-World War II industrialization and population growth. Topics include a controversy surrounding whether to allow wrestling in the same venue as the Houston Symphony, civic leaders' conceptions of Houston as a "modern city," and class-based exclusion.

The article discusses the urbanization of San Antonio, Texas from 1848 to 1885, through an examination of the career of the city's major John Hermann Kampann. An overview of the components of San Antonio's urban development, including the city's public works, educational system and municipal government, is provided. The influence that ethnicity, race, class and labor had on San Antonio is discussed. The article provides an overview of San Antonio's history, including the relationship of the city's Germans with city politics, the divided loyalties within the city during the U.S. Civil War and Kampmann's involvement in a 1875 labor dispute.

The article discusses the historical role of Texans as U.S. soldiers in World War I. Emphasis is given to the men in Company M of the National Guard from Denton, Texas. The author reflects on aspects of military life such as draft registration, the raising of infantry regiments, training at Camp Bowie, participation in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, and the discharge of soldiers following armistice. Other topics include leadership positions in the company, soldiers' places of birth, occupations, and the significance of prior military experience.

The article discusses the construction of the Texas Capital building in Austin, Texas in 1884 and the builders' use of prisoners from the state's Mexican convict lease to cut costs. The author explains that members of the National Granite Cutters Union were angry over this choice and refused to train the prisoners. The granite cutters brought legal suite against the builders. The use of Scottish immigrants as builders is also talked about. The article examines how the organization of white workers, Mexican convicts, and Scottish immigrants challenged images of American citizenship.

This article which is the author's testimony of growing up in the deep westside of San Antonio, Texas, challenges entrenched structures of power from that location and embodies the meanings of working class Tejana agency. Faith, work, family, and community are the wellsprings of the author's agency. This started with the story of her parents who crossed the Mexican-U.S. border separately with their parents during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The author's acceptance of her family's values has been an evolutionary process, but they continue to be the main anchors of her life. The author went on to describe the kinds of oppression and discrimination she experienced while she was growing up.

Discusses the Texas prohibition referendum of 1887, which provides a case study of the choices blacks faced after Reconstruction. Black leaders' conflicts with each other; Campaigns held by pro- and anti-prohibitionists to sway the black vote; Majority of the blacks that voted against prohibition; Political courses charted by the black leaders John B. Rayner, Melvin Wade and Norris Wright Cuney.

Background: Local mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission has been reported in two counties in the contiguous United States (US), prompting the issuance of travel, prevention, and testing guidance across the contiguous US. Large uncertainty, however, surrounds the quantification of the actual risk of ZIKV introduction and autochthonous transmission across different areas of the US.Methods: We present a framework for the projection of ZIKV autochthonous transmission in the contiguous US during the 2015-2016 epidemic using a data-driven stochastic and spatial epidemic model accounting for seasonal, environmental, and detailed population data. The model generates an ensemble of travel-related case counts and simulates their potential to have triggered local transmission at the individual level in the 2015-2016 ZIKV epidemic.Results: We estimate the risk of ZIKV introduction and local transmission at the county level and at the 0.025° × 0.025° cell level across the contiguous US. We provide a risk measure based on the probability of observing local transmission in a specific location during a ZIKV epidemic modeled after the epidemic observed during the years 2015-2016. The high spatial and temporal resolution of the model allows us to generate statistical estimates of the number of ZIKV introductions leading to local transmission in each location. We find that the risk was spatially heterogeneously distributed and concentrated in a few specific areas that account for less than 1% of the contiguous US population. Locations in Texas and Florida that have actually experienced local ZIKV transmission were among the places at highest risk according to our results. We also provide an analysis of the key determinants for local transmission and identify the key introduction routes and their contributions to ZIKV transmission in the contiguous US.Conclusions: This framework provides quantitative risk estimates, fully captures the stochasticity of ZIKV introduction events, and is not biased by the under-ascertainment of cases due to asymptomatic cases. It provides general information on key risk determinants and data with potential uses in defining public health recommendations and guidance about ZIKV risk in the US. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]