About Andrew Graybill

Andrew R. Graybill is professor of history and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, where he has taught since 2011. He was educated at Yale (BA), Trinity (MAT), and Princeton (MA, PhD) universities, and previously taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2003-2011. He is a historian of the North American West, and is the author or editor of four books: Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (University of Nebraska Press, 2007); Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Duke University Press, 2010), co-edited with Benjamin Johnson; The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company, 2013); and Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (University of California Press, 2015), co-edited with Adam, Arenson.

Andrew R. Graybill is professor of history and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, where he has taught since 2011.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Andrew:

April 23, 2023

Continental Reckoning

Elliott West

Hosted by Andrew Graybill

In Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (U Nebraska Press, 2023) renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narra…

October 31, 2022

Unsettled Land

Sam W. Haynes

Hosted by Andrew Graybill

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam H…

April 18, 2022

Born of Lakes and Plains

Anne F. Hyde

Hosted by Andrew Graybill

Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using inte…