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A Journey To The Midwest For Migrant Farmwork: Women's Testimonies Examining Their Lived Experiences Using Autoethnography And Plática Research Methodologies, Yesenia G. Alcalá

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of my research was to share the stories of five women who experienced a yearly migratory routine from Del Rio, Texas, to work in farms and factories in the Midwest, and how that annual journey shaped and educated us. The women are four of my older sisters and me, all of whom traveled and worked in the Princeville, Illinois, migrant camp, where we experienced the lifestyle as children, teenage workers, and some of us as parents, chasing the benefits of seasonal migrant farmwork. Our stories were based on our experiences with migrant farmwork culture, memories of our yearly …

Back Matter, Editorial Team

Journal of Texas History

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Rebellion As Performance: The Texas Revolution And The Memory Of 1776, Sam W. Haynes

Journal of Texas History

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Ambiguous Destiny: The Origins Of Filibusters Into Texas And Northern Mexico, 1812–1820, James Aalan Bernsen

Journal of Texas History

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The Forgotten Founders: Enlightened Spanish Leadership In Texasand The North American West, Bradley Folsom

Journal of Texas History

No abstract provided.

Special Feature: Texas At 250: The Lone Star State And The Meaning Of American Independence, Sam W. Haynes

Journal of Texas History

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Seeing The Trinity’S Treesfor Texas History, Scot Mcfarlane

Journal of Texas History

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Maggies, Not Aggies: The Long History Of Opposition To Women At Texas A&M, Kara Alexander Culp

Journal of Texas History

Texas A&M University, a former all-male military school and the oldest public college in the state, is widely known for its conservative reputation. Drawing on archival documents and newspapers, this essay traces how the opposition to women at A&M evolved over the course of the school’s existence and examines the role former students played in shaping A&M’s identity. It argues that the school’s masculine reputation was intentionally crafted through constant pushback against official coeducation and an intentional burying of women’s historic involvement in order to create a narrative that was centered around male whiteness. Kara

Chicano Student Activism At The University Of Texas At Austin, 1966–1980, Emilio Zamora

Journal of Texas History

The article examines the early phase of the Mexican American student movement that emerged at the University of Texas at Austin between 1966 and 1980. It argues that UT activists led a unique campus-based movement that combined struggles against discrimination, underrepresentation, and institutional neglect with sustained engagement in community and statewide causes. The essay covers student responses to racism both on and off campus and highlights students’ pivotal role in establishing, defending, and strengthening Chicano studies at UT. Attention is given to the leadership and contributions of Chicanas to the movement. The UT student movement helped shape a new Mexican …

“We’Ve Got Black Power And That’S Gonna Go A Long Way”: Ruth Jefferson Of The Dallas Nwro And The Origins Of A Multiracial Coalition In Dallas, Katherine Bynum Chávez

Journal of Texas History

This article examines how welfare rights activism helped forge a Black–Brown coalition in Dallas in the late 1960s. Centering Black welfare organizer Ruth Jefferson, it traces her role in transforming struggles over public assistance into demands for community control and political power. Although Dallas’s racial order fostered competition between Black and Mexican American communities, activists recognized shared grievances, particularly police violence and state repression. Linking welfare rights, Black Power, Chicana/o activism, and the War on Poverty, the article argues that the coalition emerged through deliberate organizing against institutions that had long worked to keep these communities apart. Katherine

Editors' Note, Rebecca Sharpless, Kenna Lang Archer, Jeff Roche, Carlos Blanton, Justin Randolph

Journal of Texas History

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Journal of Texas History

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Front Matter, Editorial Team

Journal of Texas History

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Florence As She Is, The Florence Times/M. Ohlander

Documents

Florence As She Is-"A review of her past, present and her great future," 1903.

Lauderdale County Revolutionary War Veterans Correspondence To Lois E. Henderson, Oct. 31, 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Lois E. Henderson regarding local Lauderdale County Civil War veterans.

Donation Of Books On Local Tn & Al History To Nancy O'Neal, Oct. & Nov. 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Nancy O'Neal regarding books she gave to him about local Tennessee and Alabama history as well as more general interest history.

Donation To Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Of Native American Resource Book, Juanita Tate, Oct. 16, 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Juanita Tate thanking her for her donation of her book Johnson County, Oklahoma to the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library's Native American Reference Collection.

Juanita Tate was a member of the Chickasaw Nation and was inducted into their hall of fame in 2008. For more information on Tate visit the Chickasaw Hall of Fame website. Additionally, as the letter suggests, Mrs. Tate was a descendant of the Colbert family of North Alabama.

The Worm In The Garden: William Blake’S “The Sick Rose,” Allen Ginsberg’S “Sunflower Sutra,” And The Literary Origins Of Environmental Consciousness, Erin Blake

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

This paper contends that William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” written in 1794 and Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”, written in 1955, constitute the two most significant poems in a continuous tradition of literary environmentalism stretching from the first Industrial Revolution to the organized ecological movements of the post-war twentieth century. Reading Blake through an eco-critical lens, the paper demonstrates that the poem’s symbolic architecture infers a systemic critique of industrial capitalism’s assault on the living world, anticipating by more than a century the conceptual vocabulary of modern environmental thought. The paper then traces how Ginsberg, whose formative encounter with Blake’s voice …

Colbert Ferry On Natchez Trace Correspondence To Daniel W. Bown, Superintendent, May 22, 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Daniel W. Brown, superintendent of the Natchez Trace Parkway, regarding Colberts Ferry, a historical site near Florence, Alabama.

Patton - Weeden - Brahan Papers Correspondence To Dr. James S. Leonardo, Sept. 29, 1988, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Dr. James S. Leonardo of Des Moines, Iowa concerning the Patton - Weeden - Brahan Papers housed at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library in Florence, Alabama. The papers contain information on various local historic sites connected with the respective families.

Taylor Publishing Company History Of Lauderdale County Book From Jesse C. White, Jan. 5, 1989, Jesse C. White

Correspondence

Correspondence from Jesse C. White of Taylor Publishing Company to William L. McDonald concerning the potential of publishing a book on local Florence, Alabama history.

Book Catalogue Of Southern Library Association, 1903, Southern Library Association, Florence, Alabama

Documents

A book catalogue from the Southern Library Association, a citizen library housed on the campus of State Normal College, 1903.

Book Catalogue Of Southern Library Association, 1903, Southern Library Association, Florence, Alabama

Documents

The book Catalogue of the Southern Library, a citizen's library housed at the State Normal College library, 1903.

The Heroic Behaviors Of Havka Folman-Raban, Courier In The Warsaw Ghetto, Beth S. Dotan

Heroism Science

This article analyzes the elements of heroic behavior of Havka Folman-Raban during her experiences as a courier in the underground of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Drawing on numerous missions she completed prior to being arrested in Kraków, Poland, and others made during her internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Auschwitz subcamp Harmęże, this assessment considers!how Havka Folman-Raban’s wartime activities and convictions that continued throughout the rest of her life align with four commonalities of heroism identified in heroic behavioral sciences. We consider how Havka’s participation in the Socialist Zionist Pioneering Movement influenced her actions. To understand the breadth …

Lanthorn, Vol. 61, No. 07, November 2, 2026, Grand Valley State University

Volume 61, August 10, 2026 – current

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Interpreting The Mystery Of The Edmund Fitzgerald: A Reexamination Of Maritime Documentation, Phillip C. Brady

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10^th, 1975 remains one of the most mysterious and highly debated shipwrecks in the history of the Great Lakes. The most probable of the three reasons, hatch failure, compromising seas, or shoaling, can be concluded through a thorough analysis of prominent sources paired with new research gathered from the receptivity of each conclusion to the average person.

Rewriting The Nation: Collective Memory And The 1776 Commission, Dashiell K. Brown

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This paper examines the ongoing struggle over the historical memory in the United States through an analysis of the 1776 Commission and its 2021 report. It argues that the report represents a deliberate effort to construct and control collective memory in order to promote a particular vision of national identity. By placing the 1776 Commission within a broader historiographical and political context, the paper shows how efforts to shape public understanding of history are closely tied to struggles over power, education, and national identity.

The Cold War And Its Devastation Of The Old Market: Socioeconomic Inequality And The Pursuit Of Self-Sufficiency In Revolutionary Burkina Faso (1983–1987), Ah’Jah’Rai Jones

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This study examines the revolutionary era of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, specifically the years of 1983 to 1987, as an expository case study of colonial resistance. Referencing the scholarly frameworks of Brian J. Peterson and Odd Arne Westad, this project explores how Sankara’s relentless pursuit of radical self-sufficiency, which is perfectly encapsulated in his philosophy of “He who feeds you, controls you,” sought to reestablish Burkina Faso’s national sovereignty by renouncing Western interference and prohibiting non-domestic imports.

Medieval London Civic Officers, Maryanne Kowaleski

Websites of the Center for Medieval Studies

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Perancangan Identitas Visual Nagari Ambuang Kapua Oleh Mahasiswa Kkn Di Nagari Ambuang Kapua, Sumatera Barat, Ibrahim Movic - -

Bhakti: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat

The Community Service Program (Kuliah Kerja Nyata or KKN) is a form of student service to the community. One of the objectives of this program is to fulfill the KKN course requirement through community service. In this study, we, as KKN students, were deployed to Nagari Ambuang Kapua to serve and conduct research. Nagari Ambuang Kapua, located in Padang Pariaman Regency, is an agrarian region rich in the historical values of traditional consensus (musyawarah adat) and local wisdom. However, its significant potential in the agriculture, plantation, and cultural sectors has not been optimally represented due to the …