Dr. David B. Gracy II

Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise

Books, Booklets, and Media Production

• Assistant editor of Dorman H. Winfrey, ed., Texas Indian Papers, 1846-1859 (Vol. III; Austin: Texas State Library, 1960)

• Editor, Maxey's Texas (Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965)

• Littlefield Lands: Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912-1920 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968) Recipient of Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, 1968

• Compiler with J. M. Skaggs and Roy Sylvan Dunn, Irrigation in the Southwest: A Center for Historical Research in the Southwest Collection (Lubbock: Texas Technological College, 1968)

• Introduction to Stephen F. Austin, Establishing Austin's Colony: The First Book Printed in Texas, With the Laws, Orders and Contracts of Colonization (Austin: Pemberton Press, 1970)

• With Faye Gamel, Robert C. Dinwiddie, Seth Wigderson, Where Would YOU Go? Documenting American Labor, Fifteen minute slide tape presentation for the Southern Labor Archives, 1976

• Archives and Manuscripts: Arrangement and Description (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1977) Issued through 7 printings.

• With Christopher LaPlante, Marilyn von Kohl, and Michael J. Dabrishus, It's Your Heritage: The Archives of Texas, Sixteen-minute slide-tape presentation for Texas State Archives, 1977

• With Fred Toler and Jean Carefoot, Ships of the Texas Navy (Austin: Presidial Press, 1979)

• An Introduction to Archives and Manuscripts (New York: Special Libraries Association, 1981)

• Moses Austin: His Life (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1987; acquired by University of Texas Press, 1989)

• The Dr. David B. Gracy II Lectures (Manila, Philippines: National Commission on Culture and the Arts, 1994)

• This Best But Last Chance: Representative Bill Daniel's Fight for a State Courts and Office Buildings in Texas, 1949-1954 (Austin: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995)

• "Too Lightly Esteemed in the Past": Archival Enterprise, Records Management and Preservation Administration in Texas (Austin: Texas Historical Records Advisory Board, 1995)

• Sunrise! Governor Bill Daniel and the Second Liberation of Guam (Forthcoming in 2008 from Hill College Press)

• Centennial History of the Texas State Library and Archives (working title) (Forthcoming from University of Texas Press in 2009)

Articles

• "With Danger and Honor: George W. Littlefield, 1861- 1864," Texana, I (Winter, Spring, 1963), 1-19, 120-152

• "Why?--Editorial," The Junior Historian of the Texas State Historical Association, XXIII (May, 1963), 1, 21, 19

• With Roger D. Abrams, "Some Plantation Remedies and Recipes," Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, XXIX (June, 1963), 29-34

• "Jean Lafitte and the Karankawa Indians," East Texas Historical Journal, II (February, 1964), 40 44

• "George Washington Littlefield: Portrait of a Cattleman," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXVIII (October, 1964), 237-258

• Editor, "New Mexico Campaign Letters of Frank Starr, 1861-1862," Texas Military History, IV (Fall, 1964), 169-188

• Editor with Helen J. H. Rugeley, "From the Mississippi to the Pacific, An Englishman in the Mormon Battalion," Arizona and the West, VII (Summer, 1965), 127-160

• "Mennonites at Littlefield: An Instance in the Colonization of the Texas Plains," Mennonite Quarterly Review, XLII (July, 1968), 184-192

• "Arthur P. Duggan and the Early Development of Littlefield," West Texas Historical Association Year Book, XLIV (October, 1968), 38-47; Reprinted, Leader-News (Littlefield), October 26, November 2, 1969

• "Irrigation Sells Littlefield Lands," Irrigation Age, 3, No. 3 (December, 1968), 16/s9-10; Reprinted, Leader-News (Littlefield), March 2, 1969

• "George W. Littlefield--From Cattle to Colonization, 1871-1920," in John A. Carroll, ed., Reflections of Western Historians (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969)

• "A Preliminary Survey of Land Colonization in the Panhandle Plains of Texas," The Museum Journal, XI (1969), 53-79

• "The Writing of Regional History," West Texas Historical Association Year Book, XLV (October, 1969), 161-170

• "Windmills, Plains, and People," The Cross Section (High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1), Vol. 16, No. 9 (September, 1970), 3

• "Train Ticket West," Old West, 7, No. 3 (Spring, 1971), 27, 62-64

• "The Archives: Treasure Trove For Historians," The Texas Historian, XXXI, No. 3 (January, 1971), 32-33

• "Starting an Archives," Georgia Archive, I (Fall, 1972), 20 29; Reprinted, Mid-Atlantic Archivist, 2 (February, 1973), 6-8; Reprinted, Newsletter of the Midwest Archives Conference, I, No. 2 (April, 1973), 16-17

• "Business and Books," Texas Libraries, 35 (Summer, 1973), 83-90

• "Irrigation on the High Plains--A Perspective," Red River Valley Historical Review, I (Summer, 1974), 127-131

• "Peanut Butter and Spilt Milk: A New Look at Collecting," Georgia Archive, III (Winter, 1975), 20-29

• "Data in the Raw: A Guide to Atlanta's Archives," Georgia Archive, III (Summer, 1975), 116-124

• "Mildred Satterwhite Littlefield (1811-1880)," in Evelyn M. Carrington, ed., Women in Early Texas (Austin: Pemberton Press, 1975; reprinted: Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1995), 163-168

• "Finding Aids Are Like Streakers," Georgia Archive, IV (Winter, 1976), 39-47

• Inventories and Registers: A Handbook of Techniques and Examples (A Report of the Committee on Finding Aids; Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1976)

• Eleven signed sketches in Eldon Stephen Branda, The Handbook of Texas: A Supplement (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1976)

• "Henry Garland Bennett," in John A. Garraty, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (Supplement; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977)

• "Archives for Labor in the United States: A History and Reminiscence," Archivaria, Number 4, Supplement (Summer, 1977), 151-165

• "Selling the Future: A Biography of William Pulver Soash," Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, LX (1978), 1-67

• "Stephen Fuller Austin," "George Washington Littlefield," and "Southern Labor History Conference," in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, eds., Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979)

• "Moses Austin," Our Heritage, XXII (October, 1980), 5-11

• "Moses Austin and the Development of the Missouri Lead Industry," Gateway Heritage, I, No. 4 (Spring, 1981), 42-48; Reprinted in OzarksWatch, IV, Nos. 1-2 (Summer-Fall, 1992), 15-18

• "A Man of Large Heart: George W. Littlefield and the Davis Obelisk," United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, XLVI, No. 3 (March, 1983), 19-21

• "Archives and Society: The First Archival Revolution," American Archivist, 47 (Winter, 1984), 7-10

• "Archives and Society," The Primary Source, 6, No. 2 (May, 1984), 1-2, 12-18

• "Archives and Society: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty," Clearinghouse, 7, No. 1 (October, 1984), 1, 11-14

• "Our Future Is Now," American Archivist, 48 (Winter, 1985), 12-21

• "What's Your Totem? Archival Images in the Public Mind," Midwestern Archivist, X, No. 1 (1985), 17-24

• "Archives to Archives and Dust to Dust," Provenance, IV (Spring, 1986), 1-9

• "Is There A Future in the Use of Archives?" Archivaria, 24 (Summer, 1987), 3-9

• "What Every Researcher Should Know About Archives," in John C. Larsen, ed., Researcher's Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources (Hamden, CT: Library Professional Education, Scarecrow Press, 1988)

• "The Role of Faculty in Professional Associations: The Society of American Archivists," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 29 (Fall, 1988), 108-112

• "Archivists: You Are What People Think You Keep," American Archivist, 52 (Winter, 1989), 72-78; Reprinted as "Archivistes, vous etes ce que les gens pensent que vous conservez," Archives (Association des archivistes du Quebec), 21 (ete 1989), 31-38

• "Between Muffins and Mercury...The Elusive Definition of 'Preservation'" The New Library Scene, 9 (December 1990), 1, 5-7. Reprinted in Ross Harvey, Preservation in Libraries: A Reader (London: Bowker-Saur, 1993), 10-15

• With William D. Caughlin, "Archival Education in the United States," Records and Archives: Journal of the Japan Society of Archival Institutions, Number 4 (September 1993), 51-56

• "Columbus Revisited: The Status of Archival Research Around the World in 1992," Archivum, XXXIX (1994), 520-525

• "The Imperative of Preservation Education," Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter, 69 (July 1994), 2

• "Don't Swat the Skunk: The Preservation Imperative," in Barbra Buckner Higginbotham, Advances in Preservation and Access (vol. 2; Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, Inc., 1995), 24-36

• "Hurtling Toward our Jupiter? ArchivalEducation in the Information Age," Janus (1995.2), pp. 61-67

• "Imbunatirea pe masura cu trecerea timpului: Concepte fundamentale ale practicii arhivistice," in Tendinte contemporane in biblioteconomie si stiinta informarii (Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, 1996), 23-29

• "Sa faci totul bine in prima parte a vietii: Managementul de arhiva si controlul documentelor," in Tendinte contemporane in biblioteconomie si stiinta informarii (Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, 1996), 31-37

• "Mary Brown Austin," "Moses Austin," "George Washington Littlefield," "Littlefield Lands Company," "William Pulver Soash," "James Phelps White," "Yellow House Ranch," in The New Handbook of Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996)

• "Defying Nature or Second Nature? Distance Education for Archival Enterprise in the United States," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Archival Education, held September 1 and September 2, 1996 (Beijing, P.R. China: Archives College, Renmin University of China, 1996), 47-59; Janus (1998.2), 45-50

• "Stephen F. Austin" and "Moses Austin," in Barbara A. Tennenbaum, ed., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996)

• "Moses Austin," in Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds., Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996)

• "Reference No Longer is a 'P' Word: The Reference Archivist as Marketer," The Reference Librarian, 56 (1997), 171-184

• "Is Teaching All That There Is to It? Archival Educators and Advocacy," Janus, 1997.1, pp. 42-50

• "Imbunatirea pe masura cu trecerea timpului: Concepte fundamentale ale practicii arhivistice," in Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, Ed. and Trans., Biblioteci, archive & centre de informare in secolul XXI (Brasov: Universitatii “Transilvania,” 1997), 33-40

• "Sa faci totul bine in prima parte a vietii: Managementul de arhiva si controlul documentelor," in Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, Ed. and Trans., Biblioteci, archive & centre de informare in secolul XXI (Brasov: Universitatii “Transilvania,” 1997), 41-48

• "Archival Enterprise in and the Archival System of the United States," Newsletter of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, II (1997), 19-21

• "Records Management in the Control of Records," Archives Science Study [Chinese Archives Society], 48, No. 4 (1998), 66-70

• "Education Isn't Just For Instruction Anymore: Archival Education and the University," Annals of the 10th Brazilian Congress on Archival Enterprise (CD-Rom; Sao Paulo: Association of Brazilian Archivists, 1998), 12 pps

• "Archival Preservation and the Ceramic Arts: The Concept of 'Archives'," in Heroes, Icons, History, Memory: NCECA Journal, 19 [1999], 51-52

• "Moses Austin," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), I, 776-777

• "Conservarea in biblioteci, intre prajiturele si Mercur… O definitie evaziva a 'conservarii'," in Hermina G. B. Anghelescu and Istvan Kiraly, eds., Management Pentru Viitor: Biblioteci si Arhive, special issue of Bibliotheca Bibliologica, 21 (Cluj-Napoca, 2000), 154-159

• "Tot ce avem de facut este sa predam? Profesorii de arhivistica si promovarea arhivelor," in Hermina G. B. Anghelescu and Istvan Kiraly, eds., Management Pentru Viitor: Biblioteci si Arhive, special issue of Bibliotheca Bibliologica, 21 (Cluj-Napoca, 2000), 169-179

• With William D. Caughlin, "Invatamantul arhivistic in Statele Unite ale Americii," in Hermina G. B. Anghelescu and Istvan Kiraly, eds., Management Pentru Viitor: Biblioteci si Arhive, special issue of Bibliotheca Bibliologica, 21 (Cluj-Napoca, 2000), 160-168

• "History of the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin, Formerly the Conservation Education Program at Columbia University," North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property: Histories, Alumni (Buffalo, N.Y.: Association of North American Graduate Programs In Conservation of Cultural Property, 2000), 67-72

• "Two Peas in a Pod: Archives For Museums," Inside Line Feature Insert, Museline, (Spring, 2001)

• Compiler, "The 'Texas Tornado': Gov. Bill Daniel's Grit and Benevolence on Guam," Texas Bar Journal, 64 (June, 2001), 584-589

• "'Just As I Have Written It': A Study of the Authenticity of the Manuscript of Jose Enrique de la Pena's Account of the Texas Campaign," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CV (October, 2001), 254-291

• "What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems," in Richard J. Cox and David A Wallace, Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2002), 247-263

• Exhibition Review of "Sunrise in His Pocket: The Life, Legend & Legacy of Davy Crockett". Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, March 2-August 18, 2002. In Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CVI (July, 2002), 158-160

• With Rebecca E. Kyle, Erin R. Lawrimore, Rebecca E. Romanchuk, and Stephen A. Naron, "Where Function Meets Form: Observations and Thoughts on Housing for the Archival Enterprise," Provenance, XVIII-XIX (2000-2001), 105-154

• “‘Wear Sunscreen,’ or the Documentary Record in the Electronic Environment,” Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings (Austin: Philosophical Society of Texas, 2003), Vol. LXVIII, pp. 60-67

• “To Build Rome in the Morning: Bill Daniel’s First Days as Governor of Guam, 1961,” in Lee D. Carter, William L. Wuerch, and Rosa Roberto Carter, eds., Guam History: Perspectives, Volume Two (Mangilao, Guam: Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center, 2005),283-337

• “Archives begin at A but where do they end?” Archival News: Society of Greek Archivists Newsletter, Number 23 (December, 2006), 45-51

• "Welcome to the Premier Issue of Libraries & the Cultural Record," L&CR, 41 (Summer, 2006), 295-297

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