Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: July 11, 2016 President Barack Obama, consoler-in-chief. The title rang through in the raw emotion he showed after the Sandy Hook shooting. Again when he cheered on a city after the Boston bombings for showing the country how to “finish the race.” Yet again when he leaned on Scripture to comfort in the wake […]
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SMU NEWS Originally Posted: July 11, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – One hundred years ago, a world that had long known monarchy, empire, and briefly democracy and a republic, was introduced to a new form of government: Communism, which rose to power with the fall of Tsarist Russia. On the centennial anniversary of the Russian Revolution, a […]
FOX 4 Political Historian Jeffrey Engel looks at President Obama’s refusal to use the term “radical Islam” and the political heat he is taking for it. He also talked about the politics of gun control in the wake of the Orlando slayings. WATCH [youtube]https://youtu.be/G7KFJwMy3b0[/youtube]
Houston Chronicle Originally Posted: July 6, 2016 Adrift- Part 7 The new space rescue mission: Saving NASA The legendary Christopher Columbus Kraft, who lived up to his namesake by leading NASA to the moon, has grown old. Severe lines crease his face, and Kraft’s fingers have gnarled. Earlier this year, just before his 90th birthday, sciatica […]
Professors John Chavez and Neil Foley presented papers at the Comparative Colonial Experiences session of the the World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium, on July 3, 2016.
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New Books Network Originally Posted: June 19, 2016 George McGovern is largely remembered today for his dramatic loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential campaign, yet he enjoyed a long career characterized by many remarkable achievements. In Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern (Princeton UP, 2016), the first […]
SMU Meadows School of the Arts Originally Posted: June 1, 2016 Below is an excerpt from an SMU Meadows School of the Arts news article that highlights six student experts that have majors in Meadows, Dedman College and Cox. READ MORE 5 Tips on How to Double Major Double majoring is on the rise. Is […]
Fox 4 Originally Posted: June 9, 2016 [youtube]https://youtu.be/8ihVkFyNCGo[/youtube] Campaign rhetoric may dwell on achievements of the past but voters are thinking about the future when they go to into ballot boxes, said SMU Professor Jeffrey Engel, director of SMU’s Center for Presidential History. “When we have an election where one candidate says, ‘I’m talking about […]