Month: May 2013

(Digital Collections) Item Spotlight – “Female Education: Address Delivered at the Annual Examination of the Baylor University by Col. William P. Rogers” (The Texas Collection – Selections)

by Eric Ames on May 17, 2013 in Digital Collections • 0 Comments

Our item spotlight this time around focuses on an antebellum publication that addresses two controversial issues – one directly, one obliquely – from the point of view of a former U.S. Consul to Mexico, an early law professor at Baylor University and, eventually, a Civil War casualty. William P. Rogers William Peleg Rogers (1819-1863) was born in Georgia and grew…

(Digital Collections) Baylor Faculty Members Secure Grant Funding for Digital Collections-Based Research Project

by Eric Ames on May 3, 2013 in Digital Collections • 0 Comments

In a year filled with firsts for the Digital Projects Group, we’re excited to announce another. Two Baylor University faculty members – Dr. Greg Hamerly (Associate Professor, Computer Science) and Dr. William Weaver (Assistant Professor, Great Texts Program – Honors College) – shared the news with this week that they had received a URC grant for a joint project entitled…