This blog post was composed by graduate assistant Bailey Edling, a master’s student in the History Department. When researching Texas history, it is no surprise that there is a myriad of seemingly unconnected incidents and historical agents woven together by men and women unfamiliar to the general populace. In movies like Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks…
This blog post was composed by Katrina L. Gallegos, a Summer 2022 Dowdy Intern and a master’s student in the Museum Studies program. This summer, I had the honor of being a Dowdy Endowed Intern with the W. R. Poage Legislative Library. During my appointment, I was tasked with being the project manager for Poage’s…
This blog post was written by Summer 2022 Dowdy Intern Tesia Juraschek. My name is Tesia Juraschek, and I am a rising second-year museum studies student. This summer, I was given the amazing opportunity as a Dowdy intern to work in conjunction with the Poage Legislative Library and the Riley Digitization Center to gain experience…
This blog post was written by former Poage graduate assistant Ricky Shull. Sometimes, when I tell a classmate or friend that I work at Poage Library, I have to explain who Poage was and what kind of materials the library holds. That usually solicits a response along the lines of, “Agriculture? That has got to…
This blog post was composed by graduate student Joe Wilson. As the 20th century progressed, politicians and the public at large gave increasing scrutiny to the use of pesticides in American agriculture. Pesticides were an important driver of the boom of American agriculture in the mid-20th century, but by the 1950s more and more people…
This blog post was composed by graduate student Zach Loflin, a Master’s student in the Museum Studies department. Hello there! My name is Zach Loflin, and I am a second-year master’s student in Baylor’s Museum Studies Department. In my last semester here at Baylor, I decided to complete a practicum in archives to finish out…
This blog post was written by Processing Archivist Thomas DeShong. The staff of Poage Library and the Graduate Research Center would like to congratulate our graduating student assistants as they look forward to the next chapters in their journeys. Thank you all for your hard work at and good luck on your future endeavors! Emma…
This blog post was composed by graduate assistant Ricky Shull, a master’s student in the Journalism Department. It is perhaps the most obvious responsibility of a legislator to vote on and write legislation that will have an impact on their constituents. Members of Congress do much more than write and vote on legislation, and their…
This blog post was written by graduate assistant Emma Fenske, a master’s student in the History Department. As truly as food is, first and last, our most important concern in life-so perhaps governing, in one of its forms or another, is the second in importance. And so it seems peculiarly appropriate that the other half…
This blog post was written by graduate assistant Emma Fenske, a master’s student in the History Department. February 11th marks the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison, and in celebration of his accomplishments, has become National Inventors Day, established in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. Falling amid Black History Month, this date is an excellent time…