Category: History
Professor Edward Countryman, Department of History University Distinguished Professor a) Gave one of the plenary keynote addresses to the annual meeting of the Consortium on the Age of Revolutions 1750-1850, which met this year at Louisiana State University, Shreveport, February 25-27, 2016 The topic of his address was “The First American Civil War.” b) He […]
Fox 4 Originally Posted: March 16, 2016 Reaction to SCOTUS nominee Garland Two SMU professors discuss the nominee and the politics of a nomination in an election year. WATCH
SMU’s William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, in partnership with the Instituto Mora of Mexico City, will host a public forum on the history of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, at 2:30 pm on Latino Cultural Center in Dallas on April 16, 2016. READ MORE
SMU NEWS DALLAS (SMU) — R. Hal Williams was a master teacher who inspired generations of SMU students as a professor and chair of the University’s Department of History. He served as an academic leader as dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences and later as dean of research and graduate studies. He died […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 16, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, says just as the Senate has the right to block President Obama’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia, Congress has the right to alter the number of sitting justices. But a presidential decision […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 17, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – Anne Hyde, senior fellow in SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies, will preview content from her book in progress, tentatively titled, In Plain Sight: A Half-Breed History of the American West, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in McCord Auditorium in SMU’s Dallas Hall. The […]
Think Originally Posted: February 15, 2016 FDR’s Four Freedoms In early 1941, American entry into world war seemed like a growing possibility. With that in mind, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in his State of the Union address about America’s role in the fight for freedom: freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom of religion […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 12, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – For Americans who came of age in the turbulent 60s and 70s, George McGovern is largely remembered as a failed Democratic presidential hopeful whose 1972 candidacy was pegged to his opposition to the Vietnam War. In the first major biography of McGovern, one of two […]
The following is an excerpt from an SMU news release. READ MORE Republican rhetoric on immigration bodes well for Democrats in November EVAN McCORMICK emccormick@smu.edu In the grand scheme of the presidential race, McCormick doesn’t think either party has a candidate who has transcended their party’s general acceptance by the Latin-American community in the United […]