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Event: May 7, Student Film Festival

Event Date: May 7, 2018 Time: 6:30pm Location: McCord Auditorium The students of KNW 2314: On the Edges of Empire would like to invite you to a film festival featuring student-produced films based on the photographs of India and Mexico from the DeGolyer Library at SMU. The film festival will also feature an award-winning film, […]

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Dallas To Build Memorial To Lynching Of Allen Brooks

CBS DFW Originally Posted: April 26, 2017 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The noon hour along Dallas’ Main Street Thursday afternoon resembled the images of pedestrian hustle and bustle normally seen on the sidewalks of Manhattan or Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Large crowds of dog walking residents, joggers, tourists and Central Business District workers fill the walkways of […]

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Teaching America to Read Was the Perfect Life Mission for Barbara Bush

Fortune Magazine Originally Posted: April 18, 2018 Center For Presidential History Director, Jeff Engel lends expertise to Fortune Magazine on the legacy of Barbara Bush. Barbara Bush, who died Tuesday night at 92, is only the second first lady in American history to have both married and birthed a president. (Abigail Adams was the first.) […]

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Watch: Jeff Engel reacts to Barbara Bush’s death

Fox4 Originally Posted: April 18, 2018 http://www.fox4news.com/good-day/327869549-video  

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Listen: Jeffrey Engel, CPH, Unpacking The Confusing Signals We’re Getting from the Mueller Probe

WDET Originally Posted: April 11, 2018 We have become accustomed to the weekly news cycle being interrupted by the quarter turn of information about Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election. But this week saw a blockbuster emerge. FBI agents raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, the personal attorney of President Trump. The federal agents reportedly […]

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Lawrence Wright Falls Out of Love With Texas

Texas Monthly Originally Posted: April 2018 issue The follow is a review by Andrew R. Graybill, chair of the history department and co-director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. Lawrence Wright had his road-to-Damascus moment in 1979 in Gruene, the quaint Hill Country town halfway between San Antonio […]

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Event: March 28, Take History Make History

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West Dallas Teens Road Trip To The Border And Back, Exploring Mexican-American History

KERA Originally Posted: March 13, 2018 KERA story published Tuesday, March 13, 2018 on SMU Graduate History alumna Carla Mendiola. She is teaching high school students chicana/o history. A man dressed in gold and black blows a trumpet shell. A teenage boy beats on a drum. They’re part of a group that performs traditional Aztec dances. […]

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Event: March 26, Between Public and Private: Dissent in Inquisitorial Spain

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Watch: History Professor Alexis McCrossen featured on C-SPAN this Saturday, March 3

Dedman College News Originally Posted: February 28, 2018 Don’t miss SMU Department of History professor Alexis McCrossen on C-SPAN3’s Lectures in History series this Saturday, March 3, at 8 a.m. ET and Midnight ET. Professor McCrossen’s class, The History of Consumer Culture (History 3364) was filmed in October 2017. The topic was The Great Depression as […]