Hogan, William Ransom, 1908-1971

Historian, writer, teacher; Hogan was professor of history at Tulane University from 1950 until his death in 1971. He was the author of THE TEXAS REPUBLIC: A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, the first social history of the Texas Republic.

From the description of Papers, 1934-1946. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 27038452

William Ransom Hogan, historian, writer, and teacher, was born in Toledo, Ohio, November 23, 1908. He grew up in Texas, where he was educated and earned his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in 1929. He received the M.A. in 1932, and the Ph.D. degree in 1942 from the University of Texas. He was an instructor at Ranger Jr. College and regional historian with the National Park Service before serving as an archivist at Louisiana State University, where he became department head in 1946. Dr. Hogan spent a year at the University of Oklahoma as associate professor before returning to Louisiana as associate professor of history at Tulane University in 1947. He was appointed professor of history in 1950 and served as chair of the History Department at Tulane from 1953 to 1968. He died in September, 1971.

Dr. Hogan was founder and faculty administrative director of the archives of New Orleans Jazz, a Guggenheim fellow, and was a Captain in the United States Army during World War II. His academic specialty was United States social and cultural history. Among his publications are: The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History, co-editor of William Johnson's Natchez: the Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro, and co-author with Edwin A. Davis of Barber of Natchez & Tales from the Manchaca Hills .

From the guide to the William Ransom Hogan Papers GA21., 1934-1946, (Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library)