This blog post was composed by Aaron Ramos, master’s student in the History Department. The W. R. Poage Legislative Library houses extensive amounts of correspondence between U.S. and state officials and the everyday folks they represent. While isolated letters may not offer much on their own, they create a window into the past that can give us an idea of…
Author: Eric Ames
(BCPM) Bob Darden’s Editorial Cartoon Collection Processed at the Poage Library
This blog post was composed by Kristina Benham, a former Ph.D. Candidate graduate assistant and current Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the History Department. Over the past several years, Professor Emeritus Robert Darden has donated original works of art by editorial cartoonists to the Baylor Collections of Political Materials at the W. R. Poage Legislative Library. Many of these works were…
(Texas) Centennial Cookies
Centennial Cookies
(Texas) Creating a Richer “Comunidad”: Help Us Tell the Stories of Waco’s “Calle Dos” Neighborhood
Creating a Richer “Comunidad”: Help Us Tell the Stories of Waco’s “Calle Dos” Neighborhood
(Arts) Hispanic and Latin American Artists’ Books
Hispanic and Latin American Artists’ Books
What Does a County Commissioner Actually Do? A Preview of the Lester Gibson Papers
This blog post was composed by Joe Wilson, a Ph.D. student in the History Department. This past summer, I processed a large section of the Lester Gibson papers. Gibson, who became the first African American elected as a McLennan County Commissioner, served in that role for Precinct 2 from 1990 to 2018. A Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and…
(Poage) Poage Library’s Blog is Moving!
Poage Library’s Blog is Moving!
(ABL) Reflections from a Summer Intern
Reflections from a Summer Intern
(Poage) A Summer of Fun and Learning: iEngage 2023
A Summer of Fun and Learning: iEngage 2023
(Arts) Opening a Composer’s Manuscripts Collection: A Rare Opportunity for Research
Opening a composer’s manuscripts collection: A rare opportunity for research