Light T. Cummins is the Guy M. Bryan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He served on the faculty there from 1978 until 2018. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Texas State University—San Marcos, where he has received the Distinguished Alumni Award and been named an Outstanding Alumnus of the University. He received a Ph.D. in History from Tulane University where he worked with Hugh F. Rankin and Bennett H. Wall. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Spain. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas. He is a lifetime Fellow of the Texas State Historian Association and a member of the Company of Fellows of the Louisiana Historical Association. He was named a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor in 2006. He served as the official State Historian of Texas from May, 2009 until July, 2012.