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Llamas Are Having A Moment In The Us, But They’Ve Been Icons In South America For Millennia, Emily Wakild
Llamas Are Having A Moment In The Us, But They’Ve Been Icons In South America For Millennia, Emily Wakild
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
With their long eyelashes, banana-shaped ears, upturned mouths and stocky bodies covered with curly wool, llamas look like creatures that walked out of a Dr. Seuss story. And now they’re celebrities in the U.S.
Pepito And The Last Tamalada, Manuel F. Medrano
Pepito And The Last Tamalada, Manuel F. Medrano
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being attending Central Jr. High School in Brownsville, Texas, U.S. of America and discovered the first facial pimple and did not know what to do with it.
Lincoln And Education, Rolando Avila, Anita Pankake
Lincoln And Education, Rolando Avila, Anita Pankake
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The current norm of compulsory formal schooling includes a system in which schools teach state mandated curriculum, parents are held legally responsible to assure their children attend school until they reach a certain age, and students are confined within set class meeting times and set locations during their schooling years. The two terms, education and schooling, have been increasingly used synonymously. Our assertion here is that education is a more inclusive term than schooling. More importantly, using Abraham Lincoln as a biographical model, we argue that a good education can be achieved in different ways.
Review: Border Spaces: Visualizing The U.S.-Mexico Frontera, Edited By Katherine G. Morrissey And John-Michael H. Warner., George T. Diaz
Review: Border Spaces: Visualizing The U.S.-Mexico Frontera, Edited By Katherine G. Morrissey And John-Michael H. Warner., George T. Diaz
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Border Spaces offers an interdisciplinary examination of the land border between the United States and Mexico beginning with its mapping in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Editors and contributors utilize their backgrounds in history and art history to examine issues, including the building of border fences, the management of the natural environment, and political art on the fence itself The two main questions the volume addresses are as follows: (1) "How has the land border between Mexico and the United States been represented and defined over time?" and (2) "How have state, commercial, regional, and individual interests shaped …
Copper Stain: Asarco’S Legacy In El Paso. The Environment In Modern North America. By Elaine Hampton And Cynthia C. Ontiveros, Amy M. Hay
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The term “obligated exposure” represents one of the most useful and terrible concepts offered in Elaine Hampton’s and Cynthia C. Ontiveros’s Copper Stain. It embodies the idea that the (mostly) men who worked at the El Paso, Texas ASARCO copper smelting plant and the surrounding community acquiesced to the toxic chemicals produced in order to gain “economic resources” (p. 129). Based on sixty-five interviews (only one woman), the story offers a searing and horrific study of highly risky work conditions that included dangerous machinery, molten fire, and hazardous chemicals. It suggests that place (border) and region (the West) play …
Saving The Vicuña: The Political, Biophysical, And Cultural History Of Wild Animal Conservation In Peru, 1964–2000, Emily Wakild
Saving The Vicuña: The Political, Biophysical, And Cultural History Of Wild Animal Conservation In Peru, 1964–2000, Emily Wakild
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article examines national efforts to protect wildlife in the twentieth century. Its focus is the vicuña, a small llama-like species native to the Andes, which nearly went extinct due to the high economic value of its wool. Instead, the Peruvian national government—despite significant regime shifts—intervened to put in place and then perpetuate a series of conservation measures, including trade restrictions and a territorial reserve, that protected the population and allowed it to rebound. Using a combination of cultural, economic, political, and biological methods to understand the animals and people concerned about them, this article argues that conservation reoriented relationships …
Review Of Women In Texas History, By Angela Boswell, Linda English
Review Of Women In Texas History, By Angela Boswell, Linda English
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Angela Boswell’s Women in Texas History is a narrative account of Texas history told through the experiences of women, spanning from the prehistoric period to Senator Wendy Davis’s marathon filibuster for reproductive rights on the floor of the Texas legislature in 2013. Throughout the book, Boswell’s gendered focus intersects with racial, ethnic, and class categories of analysis, providing an ambitious and highly inclusive examination of the state’s history. [End Page 130] On this approach, Boswell notes that “this book pays special attention to the differences in the lived experiences of Native Americans, Tejanas, African Americans, Anglos, Germans, and Asians. Other …
Review Of Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout And Plainsman, By Clint E. Chambers And Paul H. Carlson, Thomas A. Britten
Review Of Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout And Plainsman, By Clint E. Chambers And Paul H. Carlson, Thomas A. Britten
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The book’s primary aim is to provide a straightforward biography of Jack Stilwell (co-author Clint Chambers’s great-great-uncle) and to place his story within the context of western history during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. “Comanche Jack” left little written evidence behind for historians to peruse, but by diligently combing widely scattered army records, census rolls, court testimonies, and commentaries in newspapers and magazines, the authors succeed in providing both an interesting read and a balanced assessment of this rather remarkable individual.