This blog post was written by former undergraduate student Alexis Reese and Processing Archivist Thomas DeShong. Earlier in the spring semester, the Baylor Collections of Political Materials (BCPM) finished the processing of the Lester Gibson papers and opened the collection for research. This was the culmination of several years of labor in assistance with the Lester Gibson family and the…
Month: April 2024
(Texas) “Pants Rule”: Baylor women in the 1960s
This blog post was written by Delilah Brezenski, undergraduate student, class of ‘24 Anne Miller, fashion reporter for the Baylor Lariat, wrote a March 1963 article on the increasingly frill-less, masculine-style clothing for women. “Does this look in the clothes of the woman of today really mean that she has lost her femininity?” Miller asked. She concluded that certain ideas…
ABL Archive Workshop
This post was written by Allison Reising, a doctoral candidate in English at Baylor University. On March 14, graduate students from various disciplines gathered in the ABL’s Lewis-Birkhead Lecture Hall for an Archive Workshop led by Dr. Kristen Pond, the ABL’s Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies, and her graduate assistant, Allison Reising. The workshop aimed…
(Texas) Shakespeare’s First folio in a Global Context: Rare Books from the Age of Exploration in The Texas Collection
Shakespeare’s First Folio in a Global Context: Rare Books from the Age of Exploration in The Texas Collection.
(A&SCRC) “It is a woman” – Discovering Nettie Stevens
“It is a woman” – Discovering Nettie Stevens