Benjamin Heber Johnson is Professor in the History Department and School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of numerous works on the United States–Mexico border and environmental history, including Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans; Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place; and Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation.
He is also a member of Refusing to Forget, a public history project devoted to commemorating the legacies of the border violence of the 1910s, which has received awards from the Western History Association, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians.
Johnson has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and currently co-edits the Journal of Texas History and the David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press. Raised in Houston, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. His new book is Texas: An American History.
