This blog post was composed by graduate assistant Bailey Edling, a master’s student in the History Department. A war came to a head in the 1970s and 1980s. The two opposing sides fought endlessly to prove they were superior. They produced targeted propaganda and made internal changes to ensure their appeal to a broader population.…
This blog post was written by Summer 2022 Dowdy Intern Tesia Juraschek. My name is Tesia Juraschek, and I am a rising second-year museum studies student. This summer, I was given the amazing opportunity as a Dowdy intern to work in conjunction with the Poage Legislative Library and the Riley Digitization Center to gain experience…
This blog post was written by graduate assistant Emma Fenske, a master’s student in the History Department. On the fourth Thursday of every month, a club without rules, membership fees, or a clear origin gathered in one of the various rooms located within the Sam Rayburn House building in Washington, D.C. for the Texas Breakfast…
For our final week of American Archives Month, we took a look at the papers of Sam B. Hall. When long-time Congressman Wright Patman died in 1976, Sam B. Hall, Jr. was chosen in a special election represent Texas’s First District. He held this seat in the House of Representatives until 1984 and was re-elected…