This blog post was written by former graduate assistant Seven Franklin. Beginning in the late 1990s and continuing into the early 2000s, religious liberty once again became a focal point for controversy in American public life. School prayer, sex education, and marriage were prominent topics of discussion. Many Americans believed that a more pointed effort needed to be taken to…
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(BCPM) Artesia Hall: A Texan Horror Story
This blog post was composed by graduate assistant Aaron Ramos, a master’s student in the Department of History. “Send us your daughter and we will return to you a lady or send us your son and we will return to you a gentleman.” (Printed along the bottom of Aston Educational Foundation letterhead, of which Artesia Hall was a part.)…
(BCPM) “With God’s Help, Let Us Build a Prosperous, Expanding, and Free Agriculture:” American Agriculture Politics from 1958-1961 (Part 3)
This blog post was written by History Ph.D. candidate Emma Fenske. This is the final post covering former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, his speeches, the Christian Right, and American agriculture politics from 1958-1961. While it might stand out that a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had such a public religious and pro-America platform…
“With God’s Help, Let Us Build a Prosperous, Expanding, and Free Agriculture:” American Agriculture Politics from 1958-1961 (Part 2)
This blog post was written by History Ph.D. candidate Emma Fenske. It will be featured in three parts covering former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, his speeches, the Christian Right, and American agriculture politics from 1958-1961. The Communist Threat Ezra Taft Benson was given approval for his position as Secretary of Agriculture by Church president David O. McKay and…
“With God’s Help, Let Us Build a Prosperous, Expanding, and Free Agriculture:” American Agriculture Politics from 1958-1961 (Part 1)
This blog post was written by History Ph.D. candidate Emma Fenske. It will be featured in three parts covering former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, his speeches, the Christian Right, and American agriculture politics from 1958-1961. Within the Baylor Collections of Political Materials, housed at the W. R. Poage Library, the Hyde H. Murray papers feature three boxes of…
(BCPM) Picture it: Texas 1973 … Lane Denton and Television Censorship in the Lone Star State
This blog post was written by graduate assistant Aaron Ramos, a master’s student in the History Department. We are excited to announce that the Lane Denton papers are currently in processing! This collection will be of interest to students and scholars of the 1970s. Denton, an alumnus of Baylor University, witnessed many significant events as he represented McLennan County in…
(BCPM) Waco’s War on Poverty: The Political Responses of a Community
This blog post was composed by former graduate assistant Emma Fenske, a Ph.D. student in the History Department. On January 8, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson announced a program that would become known as the War on Poverty. In his presidential address to Congress, Johnson highlighted that poverty was a significant problem within the United States, one that need to be…
(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…