In the early days of October, sports fans across America start to feel dejected, demoralized, and distraught. This combination can only mean one thing: its baseball postseason, and chances are your favored team is stuck riding the pine until next year. Luckily, there’s still hope! Where baseball season let you down, football season’s there to…
October is American Archives Month, and the mood here at the Baylor Collections of Political Materials can best be described as “ridiculously excited”. American Archives Month began in 1979 with local archivists celebrating their respective collections and repositories. Since then, the merrymaking has grown to include archivists across the nation. The Society of American Archivists…
On September 21st, 1979, the W.R. Poage Legislative Library was born. Thirty-six years later, Baylor Collections of Political Materials continues to uphold the vision of the library’s founders: to pay tribute to W.R. Poage, a Baylorite “whose long career in government service on the state and national level epitomized genuine statesmanship”. Our facility began as…
The Baylor Collections of Political Materials is getting a new email! Our staff can now be reached at bcpm@baylor.edu. Email is a great way to contact us for: – research requests – organizing class visits – donating materials – touring our exhibits – just saying hello! You can stay up-to-date about what’s going on at…
Every so often an item from our archive catches our attention and demands to be shared. Today, that item is a pink and ivory folder from the United States Department of Agriculture titled Packet for the Bride. This folder comes from our John Dowdy collection and includes ten individual booklets about various domestic subjects. This…
It’s that time of year again; leaves begin turning brown, students sojourn back to their universities, and (at least here in Texas) the weather remains a humid 90 degrees with no sign of abating. School is back in session and here at the Baylor Collections of Political Materials, we’re knee-deep in the papers of former…
As the new school year fast approaches, we here at the Baylor Collections of Political Materials would like to remind you that we will showcase some of our content throughout the year via our various social media platforms. Please take a moment to check us out — we’re excited to expand our audience and share…