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Andrew R. Graybill, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, reviews new books in Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly Originally Posted: February 2018 A Tale of Two Texas Families New books from Roger D. Hodge and Bryan Mealer draw an unsparing portrait of rural Texas. Families are the bedrock of Texas settlement. Take, for instance, the Old Three Hundred, the first white migrants who came to Texas from the American South in […]

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Former Texas First Lady and Civic Leader Rita Clements has died

SMU News Originally Posted: January 8, 2018 Longtime SMU supporter Rita Clements, former Texas First Lady, civic leader and political activist, has died after a long illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas. “Rita Clements’ passion for education was clear to everyone […]

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Watch: Abraham Zapruder and JFK Assassination Alexandra Zapruder talked about her book, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

C-Span Originally Posted: October 26, 2017 Abraham Zapruder and JFK Assassination Alexandra Zapruder talked about her book, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film. Abraham Zapruder filmed President Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade and assassination in 1963 with his home movie camera. Alexandra Zapruder is his granddaughter. Watch    

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SMU Clements Center for Southwest Studies to Host Nov. 15 Book Prize Event for Three Roads to Magdalena Author

SMU News Originally Posted: Nov. 8, 2017 David Wallace Adams developed the book during a Clements Center fellowship DALLAS (SMU) – Acclaimed as a unique and enduring window into borderlands history, David Wallace Adams’ 2016 book, Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990, will be awarded this year’s Weber-Clements Prize for […]

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It’s about more than Standing Rock

Daily Campus Originally Posted: September 18, 2017 “Can everyone hear me? I have a cold and I sound a bit like Kathleen Turner today,” SMU professor Kacy Hollenback joked to a tightly packed room in Heroy Hall. Around 40 students and faculty members gathered on Wednesday, Sept. 13 to hear the anthropology professor’s lecture, Its About […]

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DISD American Indian Education Program students visit SMU

Students involved with the DISD American Indian Education Program visited Dallas Hall and the Clements Center April 20, 2017. Steven Denson, Adjunct Professor of Management and Director of MBA Diversity Initiatives in the SMU’s Cox School of Business brought by the group to visit the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and its assistant director Ruth […]

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Dr. Eric Meeks speaks about history of U.S.-Mexico border and the current national debate

Daily Campus Originally Posted: February 21, 2017 On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, Dr. Eric Meeks, historian and current Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America, part of Southern Methodist University’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies, spoke about the history of the U.S.-Mexico border, as it relates to the current national debates surrounding the […]

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Listen: Senior Clements Center fellow Eric Meeks on KERA’s Think Wednesday, February 15 at noon

Senior Clements Center for Southwest Studies fellow Eric Meeks will be on KERA’s Think Wednesday, February 15 from noon-1 p.m. Meeks will discuss his work on the history of the US-Mexico borderlands in anticipation of his evening lecture at SMU on February 21st. For more information about Eric Meeks visit: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Events/Lectures/Meeks

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Listen: Senior Clements Center fellow Eric Meeks on KERA’s Think Feb. 15

Senior Clements Center Center for Southwest Studies fellow Eric Meeks will be on KERA’s Think Wednesday, February 15 from noon-1 p.m. Meeks will discuss his work on the history of the US-Mexico borderlands in anticipation of his evening lecture at SMU on February 21st. For more information about Eric Meeks visit: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Events/Lectures/Meeks

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles visits SMU

Event date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Location: SMU, McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall This event is cosponsored with SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles argues that one of the great turning points in the life of George Armstrong Custer came in Texas in 1865–66. […]