Founded in 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Texas A&M University began with just forty students, six faculty members, and a mission to educate young men in agriculture and mechanics. Over the following 150 years, the institution evolved into one of the largest public universities in the United States, enrolling more than ......
Contemporary cultural theorist, philosopher, and creative writer Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua (1942-2004) revolutionized borderlands theory, drawing from her own experiences on the Texas-Mexico border to develop a comprehensive decolonial vision with important implications for twenty-first-century social justice activists and scholars. Anzaldua ......
The 100th meridian is more than a geographic marker splitting the humid east from the arid west; it is a profound cultural boundary that forged a distinct way of life. In Son of the Hundredth Meridian: A Memoir of West Texas, Donald E. Green blends the analytical rigor of a trained historian with the deeply personal recollections of a native son ......
Only nine countries have possessed nuclear weapons in the roughly eighty years since the US first introduced the atomic bomb to the world. Since then, a dangerous game of "will they, won't they?" has been played between these nations. The most infamous standoff was the Cold War between the US and USSR, but tension between the US and Iran has been ......
The 1914 Longhorns sprinted to an undefeated 8-0 game differential, yielding only three touchdowns all season and outscoring opponents by a cumulative 358-21 in a record that stood for 91 years. Vanquished foes included schools that would become traditional rivals-Baylor, Rice, and Oklahoma-as well as less-familiar opponents like Southwestern, ......
From 1802 to 1813, Nemesio Salcedo served as commandant general of the Spanish Internal Provinces, making him the preeminent military and civil authority over a roughly 1.5 million square mile region that stretched from the western bank of the Mississippi River to the eastern border of modern California and south to what is today north-central ......
In 1873 "Uncle Joe" Glidden, a sixty-year-old farmer in DeKalb, Illinois, became inspired to improve fencing after seeing a thorny rail at a county fair. Taking an old hand-cranked coffee mill, he modified it to coil some wire barbs and strung them on a wire in hopes of keeping his cattle from his cornfield. When the wire became tangled, he ......
"Certainly within the past one hundred years," wrote one commentator in the summer of 1960, "no simple City has so dominated the political scene as Boston does today." That year, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy was the Democratic nominee for president. His Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, chose as his running mate ambassador to the United ......
"What does it mean to be human at a time when we're struggling with the nature of our humanity, when the world as we thought we knew it is fluid and not fixed? How do we make sense of a world that subjects us daily to a barrage of different technologically processed versions of reality? How do we remain human even within inhuman constraints?" ......
