Event date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall, 3225 University Time: 5:30 reception followed by 6 pm lecture and book signing T.J. Stiles will be on campus January 24th to give a talk based on one of his books Custer’s Trials, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history. The event is co-hosted by the […]
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SMU News Originally Posted: October 18, 2016 The national protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline have drawn thousands to rallies throughout the country, including Dallas. What is Standing Rock and its history, and what is the basis of the dispute over the pipeline? An invited panel moderated by Ben Voth, associate professor of corporate communications and public affairs in SMU’s Meadows School […]
Daily Campus Originally Posted: September 13, 2016 Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly journalist and author of “The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer”, kicked off the six-part, lunchtime lecture series, hosted by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies on Wednesday. Beginning at 1:00 p.m. in Hyer Hall, students, faculty, and […]
SMU News Originally Posted: August 15, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies will present its annual book prize on Tuesday, Sept. 27, to historian Andrew J. Torget forSeeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). The David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize for […]
April 27, 2016 Dallas, TX – SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies, in partnership with the Instituto Mora of Mexico City, hosted a public forum on the history of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, April 16, at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. Bringing together scholars and journalists from Mexico, the United States […]
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 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 […]
SMU News Originally Posted: January 13, 2016 Andrew Needham examines burden borne by Navajos in transforming Phoenix into modern metropolis SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies will present its annual book prize on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to historian Andrew Needham for Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton University Press, 2014). […]
Guide Live Originally Posted: August 28, 2015 Laura Wilson’s rare photographs showcase the American West Hollywood actor Owen Wilson has in his home “a great picture that my mom took of Donald Judd. He’s a great artist, and it’s in Marfa. It may have been one of the last photographs of him that was taken […]
DALLAS (SMU) – When friends and supporters of SMU-in-Taos gathered at the New Mexico campus in July to celebrate the opening of the Carolyn and David Miller Campus Center, the event also underscored more than four decades of visionary support from the late Bill Clements, Jr. ‘39 and the Clements Foundation. Clements and his wife, […]