Hist. 1360: THe History of the United States Through Reconstruction
Hist. 1361: The History of the United States Since Reconstruction
Hist. 3365: The American Revolution
Hist. 3381: Historians and Their Craft
Hist. 3384: Slavery and the Atlantic Economy
Hist. 4460: Seminar in United States History A
Linda K. Salvucci | Associate Professor
Linda K. Salvucci earned the A.B., magna cum laude, from Villanova University and the A.M. and Ph D. from Princeton University. Since joining the Trinity faculty in 1985, she has taught a variety of courses on the British and Spanish Atlantic World, on early American history, and on the craft of history, along with a First Year Seminar, “Remembering the Alamo: Myth, Memory and History.” Her scholarly publications have won the Hubert Herring Prize (1985) and the Conference on Latin American History Prize (Best Article, 2001). She is coauthor of various editions of Call to Freedom, a U.S. History textbook for 8th and 9th graders. Her current research is a book project, “Ironies of Empire: The United States – Cuba Trade in a New Atlantic World, 1760-1868.” She has held fellowships and grants from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Philadelphia (now McNeil) Center for Early American Studies, and the Conference on Latin American History (Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies).
Professor Salvucci presently serves as a Trustee of the National Council for History Education and as a member of the Board of Governors of The Historical Society. She was named to Who’s Who in America for 2007 and 2008. In San Antonio, she has actively participated in several Teaching American History grants (U.S. Department of Education) and served on the Board of Directors of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio and as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of Saint Luke’s Episcopal School. At Trinity, she is the Institutional Representative for The Rhodes Scholarship Trust and a member of the Pre-Law Advisory Committee.
Publications
- “Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce and the Rise of the Spanish West Indies (Cuba),” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 781-809
“’Everybody’s Alamo:’ Revolution in the Revolution, Texas Style,” Reviews in American History, 30:2 (June 2002), 236-244
“Cuba and the Latin American Terms of Trade: Old Theories, New Evidence,” coauthored with Richard J. Salvucci, in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 31:2 (Autumn, 2000) 197-222 (awarded the CLAH Prize for Best Article, 2001)
Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1914; Beginnings to 1877; 1865 to Present; Complete Edition, coauthored with Sterling Stuckey (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), c.2000 and 2001 (revised editions, c.2003, c.2005)
“Price and Quantum Indices of the United States – Cuba Trade, 1821-1898,” (Abstract) The Journal of Economic History, 55:2 (June 1995), 402
“Did NAFTA Rewrite History?: Recent Mexican Views of the United States Past,” The Journal of American History, 82:2 (September 1995), 643-647
“The Politics of Protection: Interpreting Commercial Policy in Late Bourbon and Early National Mexico,” coauthored with Richard J. Salvucci and Aslán Cohen, in Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (University of New Mexico Press, 1994), pp. 95-114
“Las consecuencias económicas de la ndependencia mexicana,” coauthored with Richard J. Salvucci, in Leandro Prados de la Escosura y Samuel Amaral, eds., La independencia americana: consecuencias económicas (Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1993), pp.31-53
“El caso cubano: exportación e independencia,” coauthored with Pedro Fraile Balbín and Richard J. Salvucci, in Leandro Prados de la Escosura y Samuel Amaral, eds., La independencia americana: consecuencias económicas (Madrid, Alianza
Editorial, 1993), pp. 80-101“Getting the Facts Straight: New Views of Mexico and Its People in Recently Adopted U.S. History Textbooks in Texas,” The Public Historian, 14:4 (Fall 1992), 57-69 [analyzes adoptions for 1992-1998]
“Supply and Demand and the Making of a Market: Philadelphia and Havana, 1780-1830,” in Franklin W. Knight and Peggy K. Liss, eds., Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (University of Tennessee Press, 1991), pp. 40-57
“Mexico, Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Secondary-School U.S. History Textbooks,” The History Teacher, 24:2 (Feb. 1991), 203-222; an earlier version of this essay also appears in Paul Ganster and Mario Miranda Pacheco, eds., Imagenes
reciprocas : La educación en las relaciones México-Estados Unidos de América (México, D.F., 1991), pp. 105-122 [analyzes adoptions for 1986-1992]“Crecimiento y cambio de productividad en la economía mexicana, 1750-1895,” coauthored with Richard J. Salvucci, in HISLA: Revista Latino-Americano de Historia Económica y Social, 10 (December 1987), 67-89
“Anglo-American Merchants and Stratagems for Success in Spanish Imperial Markets, 1783-1807,” in Jacques A. Barbier and Allan J. Kuethe, eds., The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819 (Manchester University
Press, 1984), pp. 127-33, 214-17“Costumbres viejas, ‘hombres nuevos’: José de Gálvez y la burocracia fiscal novo-hispana (1754-1800),” Historia Mexicana, 33:2 (October 1983), 224-264 (actually published late in 1984; won the Hubert Herring Award for Best Article for 1985)