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(BCPM) Comic Book Banning in the United States: Days of Future Past

by Eric Ames on December 11, 2023 in Announcements, BCPM at Poage Library • 2 Comments

This blog post was composed by Aaron Ramos, master’s student in the History Department. The 1950s often evoke images of nostalgia for simpler times in American life. This longing is illustrated through the popularity of the 1950s Americana aesthetic which situates the ideal life amid white suburban spaces where the nuclear family reigns and the American economy booms. However, any…

(BCPM) “The Eagles Are Coming!” The Long Battle Between Texan Mohair Ranchers and the Golden Eagle

by Eric Ames on November 16, 2023 in BCPM at Poage Library • 0 Comments

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…

(BCPM) Bob Darden’s Editorial Cartoon Collection Processed at the Poage Library

by Eric Ames on October 16, 2023 in BCPM at Poage Library • 0 Comments

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…

What Does a County Commissioner Actually Do? A Preview of the Lester Gibson Papers

by Eric Ames on September 20, 2023 in BCPM at Poage Library • 0 Comments

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…