A University of Texas at Arlington historian will scour the oldest seven cities in Cuba to digitize parish registers that detail the lives of millions of African and Afro-Cuban slaves. The research is funded, in part, by a $50,000 grant from the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. A detail of the Archive in Trinidad shows…
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UTA Center for Greater Southwestern Studies hosts presentation by Edward H. Miller
The Center for Greater Southwestern Studies invites you to attend Sunbelt Politics: The Rise of the New Right Thursday, April 14th, 2016 In 1956, Dallas Congressman Bruce Alger’s strategic conversion on race represented a seminal moment in the evolution of the Republican Party in the once solidly Democratic South. Subsequent events affected the political calculations…
Deportation in the Americas – Histories of Exclusion
UTA, The Department of History, and The Center for Mexican American Studies are proud to present Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion. The series of lectures will take place between March 9th – 10th. For more details on the individual lectures, please see the flyer above or download it here.(https://utalibartsnews.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/2016-webb-11×17-poster.pdf)
CMAS director Zlolniski appointed to key state committee on Mexican-American studies at Texas colleges, universities
Christian Zlolniski, associate professor of sociology and anthropology and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been appointed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Mexican American Studies Field of Study Advisory Committee. Read more on this story at UTA’s news center here. (http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2016/02/zlolniski-THECB.php)
UTA Native American Student Association will hold annual powwow Feb. 27
The University of Texas at Arlington’s Native American Student Association will hold it’s 21stannual Scholarship Benefit Powwow on February 27th. The event will welcome hundreds of members of Native American nations indigenous to Texas, Oklahoma, and surrounding states. You can read more about this event at the Star-Telegram here.(http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington-citizen-journal/article60827236.html)
New digital humanities project to map historic sites of conflict involving Native Americans in Texas
A team of University of Texas at Arlington researchers supported by a new College of Liberal Arts Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative is creating…
History’s Milson Wins National Teaching Award
Earlier this month, Professor Andrew Milson (History) won a distinguished teaching award from the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). Milson, who has taught at UT Arlington since 2010, said he appreciates the recognition of his peers. “It’s a great honor,” he said. “This is something I care a great deal about. To be recognized…
History Alumna Credits Faculty With Career Spark
An interest in Civil War military history and plenty of encouragement from The University of Texas at Arlington faculty members spurred a nearly 30-year career for Anne Bailey (’82). Bailey, a Cleburne native, enrolled at UT Arlington in the early 1980s as a history major with plans to teach. She was intrigued by Civil War…
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