Promoting the Study of Congress

This blog was written by Mary Goolsby, Director of Poage Library. The Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC) was founded in 2003 as an independent alliance of organizations and institutions that promote the study of the U.S. Congress. Like the Baylor Collections of Political Materials at Poage Library, many of the member…

William R. Smith: Family and Politics

This blog post was written by graduate assistant Mikah Sauskojus, master’s student in History. I recently had the opportunity to work with the papers of William R. Smith, a collection containing correspondence dating to his time served as a Texas district judge and then congressman from 1890-1912. These papers offer a glimpse into the tensions…

Amanda Fisher interviews Hannah Schwartz

Weatherford, Texas Senior Hannah Schwartz has been busy this year helping us to re-process the Jack Hightower papers so they can be entered into BARD and more easily accessible to researchers. Hightower had a full career, serving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1953-1955, the Texas Senate, 1965-1974, the U.S. Congress, 1974-1984, and was elected…

After the Pioneers: A Chisolm Trail Story

This blog was written by Graduate Student Scott Anderson. Recently, I helped assist a researcher who had become interested in an article written by W. A. “Bill” Poage, the father of United States Representative William R. Poage. This article, published in the July 20, 1941, edition of the Dallas Morning News (and later reprinted in…

“Sharing Her Story” National Women’s History Month Celebration

Blog written by Debbie Davendonis, director of Poage Library and member of the planning team. The Baylor Libraries (including the W. R. Poage Legislative Library), Institute for Oral History, and Women’s and Gender Studies are excited to announce a new research resource that will soon be available to the Baylor community…and beyond! We are in…