Letter from the Editor By Debbie Z. Harwell Debbie Z. Harwell, Editor My first formal oral history interviews as a graduate student in 2009 were with members of the Yates Class of 1958, and it changed my understanding of historical research. Even though I went through school in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), I did not know much about Yates, or any […]
Texas History Lessons
Texas History Lessons is a podcast about Texas history and much more. History is an important area of study and it is fun. While most of the focus will, of course, …
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Texas History Timeline | Bullock Texas State History Museum
The Story of Texas is a long one. Did you know that Texas people have been living in Texas since 14,000 BCE? Explore with the Texas history timeline.
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad …
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Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960! The present looks different.Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present& asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract!🙏 https://t.co/bphnK6Hy7H— Anna Stansbury (@annastansbury) December 31, 2024
Culture & truth : the remaking of social analysis
xii, 253 pages ; 22 cm; Argues for a new approach to thinking and writing about culture. Exposing old conceptions, the book argues that new ethnographic writing must come to terms with the dynamic nature of social reality - with history, spontaneity, and human emotions; Originally published: Boston: Beacon, 1989; Includes index; Self-Renewing 2017; Includes index
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The Portal to Texas History - A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.
The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.
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Write About Now was voted "Best Open Mic" in the country by the National Spoken Word Awards. Don't miss the best poetry events in Houston!
The Journal of Scientific Integrity
by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. I was assi…
How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty
I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.
The Reading Room HTX
The Reading Room is a Houston-based, independent reference library for books on Black art and culture, founded by Amarie Gipson.
back in 2012, @kissane.myatproto.social invited me to write an article for (the ostensibly now-defunct) Contents Magazine: doriantaylor.com/no-longer-no-sense-of-an-endi… i haven't looked at it in a while; it's kind of a clumsy article actually but (because?) it considers two tangentially-related concerns…
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
doriantaylor.comFascinating talk on the history of peer review from Melinda Baldwin at @icssi.org, with some parallels to current crises. Also I hadn't realized peer review was such an American thing.
