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…
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(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…
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
Artistic Responses to Eclipses: Exhibit in the Arts and Special Collections Research Center (March-September 2024)
This exhibit was curated – and this blog post written – by Jeanne Dittmann Eclipses have made dramatic impacts on human cultures for as long as we have recorded history. Astronomers and mathematicians have been fascinated by the opportunity to predict these celestial events which can cause great consternation as well as great awe by those who experience them, and…