This post was written by music librarian Bethany Stewart, Ph.D. In your first Fall semester foray to Moody Memorial Library’s third floor, you may notice a new tenant: a large and unusually shaped keyboard instrument. In short, our new resident wooden dinosaur is a square grand piano—which yes, is in fact rectangular and not new at all—built in 1880 and…
Author: Eric Ames
(BCPM) My Transformative Internship at the Poage Library
This blog post was written by Toyosi Stephen Adedara, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the 2024 Dowdy Summer Intern. My Dowdy summer internship experience at the Poage Library humbled me. Before this summer, I had always thought of libraries as mere repositories for books and documents. However, my time at Poage taught me that…
Unlocking History: Highlighting World War II Primary Sources in Baylor Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives
Collaborative writing project by Sinai Wood, Bethany Stewart, Elizabeth Rivera, Sylvia Hernandez, and Beth Farwell This summer marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the pivotal moment in the Second World War when Allied forces launched their invasion on the beaches of Normandy and thus opened a crucial front in Western Europe which eventually allowed Allied troops to liberate occupied territories.…
(BCPM) Introducing Mr. Agriculture! The Opening of the Bob Poage Papers
This blog post was written by Thomas DeShong, the Processing Archivist at the Baylor Collections of Political Materials. In April 2019, I joined the Baylor Collections of Political Materials housed at the W. R. Poage Library. My colleagues gave me a few weeks to wet my feet and explore the collections before I was charged with processing the W. R.…
(BCPM) A 2005 Juneteenth Message from U.S. Rep. (Ret.) Chet Edwards
Today, we celebrate Juneteenth, a day set apart to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved persons in Texas following the end of the Civil War. On June 18, 2005, Representative Chet Edwards visited Cleburne, a small city in Johnson County, to speak at their Juneteenth Festival. His speech, titled “The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation” traced the path of freedom for…
(BCPM) School Desegregation vs. School Integration
This blog post was written by Isaiah Horne, a recent MA graduate of the History Department. Read Isaiah’s previous related blog post on “School Choice:” Its Origins and Long History here. In the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that racial segregation was unconstitutional and “inherently unequal,” thus ushering in a new era…
(A&SCRC) Your Name is Safe, You Can Rest Now
This post was written by Mary Grace Klausmeyer, intern for the Book Arts and Letterpress Lab As May comes to a close, we take time to reflect on Asian/Pacific American heritage month. One Asian-American artist has several works in the Baylor Book Arts Collection. Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder is an artist, writer, and bookbinder based out of San Antonio, Texas. Inspired…
(BCPM) Family, Politics, and Religion, Oh My!
Hello there! My name is Isaiah Horne. I am a second-year master’s student in the Baylor History Department. Throughout my tenure at Baylor, I have researched the process of school desegregation in Texas. As a result, I spent countless hours, in my first year, at the W. R. Poage Legislative Library. Amid the research process, I fell in love with…
(BCPM) Opening McLennan County Commissioner Lester Gibson’s Papers
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…
(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…