Gregg Cantrell joined the History Department faculty in August 2003. He teaches the American History survey courses, plus upper-level and graduate courses in Texas History.

His first book, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent, was published in 1993 by the University of Illinois Press. (For more on the book, click on the title.)

His second book, Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, was published in 1999 by Yale University Press. It is the first full-length biography of Austin in over seventy years. (For more information, including reviews, click on the title.)

His third book, Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1918, was published in 2001 by Harlan Davidson, Inc.

His fourth book, The History of Texas (3rd Edition), co-authored with Robert A. Calvert and Arnoldo De Leon, was published in 2002 by Harlan Davidson, Inc.  (For more information, click on the title.)