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Michael V. Hazel

MICHAEL V. HAZEL is a major figure in the upsurge of interest in Dallas history that has occurred in recent decades. He is editor and founder of Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (now in its twentieth year), and also founder of the Dallas History Conference that in 2008 held its ninth annual session.

He is a native of Dallas, a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a major in history, and holder of a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. Hazel has been interim director of two of the city's major historical organizations, the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas Heritage Village, and he helped in researching and gathering archival material for the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture.

He has written extensively about Dallas. His books include Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History (1995), Dallas: A History of Big D (1997), Dallas Public Library: Celebrating a Century of Service, 1901-2001 (2001), and (ed) Stanley Marcus from A to Z (2000). He was editor of Historic Photos of Dallas (2006) and photo editor of Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History (2002).

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Essays in Local History

edited by Michael V. Hazel

Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History, edited by Michael V. Hazel, is a collection of essays appearing originally in Heritage News and Legacies. Hazel is the author himself of nine of the thirty essays, and the others are written by local historians whose findings are putting the city's past in a new light. The essays are divided into five sections: Establishing a Community, Building a City, Ethnic Groups in Dallas, Women in Dallas, and Special Events in Dallas. The essays, well-researched and readable, have such titles as "Navigating the Trinity," "Early Italian Settlers in Dallas," "Dallas Women's Clubs," and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines." The back cover of the book notes "Some Surprising Facts About Dallas." These include the story of a steamboat that came up the Trinity to Dallas from the Gulf of Mexico in 1867, a German beer garden that in 1886 made first use in town of outdoor electric lights, a thriving Italian community that supported an Italian language newspaper for many years, a cotton mill owned and operated by African Americans just after 1900, and the election of two activist women in 1908 to the school board at a time when women could not vote.

1995. Paper. 325 pages. ISBN 0-9637629-9-0.

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