Benjamin Johnson

Benjamin H. Johnson is a professor in History and the School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago. His first book, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (Yale University Press, 2003) offered a new interpretation of the origins of the Mexican-American civil rights movement. His most recent book is Texas: An American History (Yale University Press, 2025), which explores the powerful and often unpredictable ways that Texas has had such a powerful influence on U.S. history.