Curious what life was like in Texas during the 1700s? My new book Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios dives into the daily grit of Hispanos living in a Native-dominated world. Preorder your copy here! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332801/
09.10.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This the type of energy I need white women on.
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Texas Documents β An Archive for Texas-Related Research
As a friendly reminder, the deadline for the inaugural TexasDocuments.com $600.00 scholarships is this Saturday: texasdocuments.com/scholarship/
If you're a PhD and Master's student, simply write one page describing the Texas history research guide you plan to contribute, and submit it to me.
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The thing I want folks to understand abt the cuts in the GOP budget is that they are IDEOLOGICAL, NOT FISCAL. This is not abt "saving money" by cutting essential services (the budget actually operates at a substantial loss). Rather, it is abt destroying the infrastructure supportive of democracy.
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I'm no lawyer but the text of the Enemy Alien Act says it applies only in "a declared war between the US & any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion ... against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government." None of these conditions exist.
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Bingo
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"The insurance company has an army of people who are very concerned about paperwork and precise wording ... My kindness and patience has shifted to fury."
07.12.2024 16:06 β π 108 π 42 π¬ 2 π 1
Trouble in Texas β AHA
A political controversy couched as a leadership fight roils the Texas State Historical Association.
I don't think that there has been any press coverage of the matter yet, but a recent lawsuit in Texas History has huge implications for academic freedom, free speech more broadly, and disciplinary associations. /1
www.historians.org/perspectives...
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Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Professional playlist maker and PhD student at Southern Methodist University (1990's media history)
β...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.β -OEB
Assistant Professor @SMU.
I study #AfricanAmericanLiterature #Post45AmericanLit #EnvironmentalHumanities
Editor, Folksinger, Fisherman on Texas Gulf Coast.
An award-winning public history project committed to sharing the history of state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas.
Canadian, Cree-Metis, Archaeologist, Canada Research Chair Tier II. Pyroepistemology, Author of the Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. Gardening, food security, Terra Preta soils. Democracy
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
PhD in American Literature
Fat liberationist
Cat dad πββ¬
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
History prof. Author of Borders of Violence and Justice. Forthcoming book, Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights. Keeper of bees. I like tacos.
AJP, he/they. Queer. Crip (Neurofibromatosis). *SARS CoV-2 never left* Views mine. https://andrewpegoda.com
History PhD student at SMU/conduit for nonsense and chaos
Historian. Teacher. Author. Cheesehead. Springnut.
drbenwright.com
Old retired guy who drives Buicks, loves Democracy, hates Authoritarians, and who manipulates footnotes into published works of academic Texas history.
Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
I study history in order to understand and help others understand the crazy world in which we live. Environment, climate, borders, violence and memory are key. Also @refusing2forget.bsky.social. My opinions are mine, sadly almost never my employer's.
Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.
Professor | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands
Save the Adobes
Professor of History, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War.
Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv