This blog post was composed by graduate assistant Jillian Higgins, a master’s student in the History Department. With mid-term elections right around the corner, the Poage Library encourages you to exercise your right to vote! One of the pioneers of voter protection during the 1990s was Texas’s Chet Edwards, member of the U.S. House of…
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 written by Mary Goolsby, Director of Poage Library. “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt The Poage Library contains campaign materials from 1935 to the…