Football & Fisher

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…

Treats & Treasures during American Archives Month

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…

Our 36th Anniversary

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…

We’re Back!

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…

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