The Colorado: A Documentary Screening and Commentary

Vester Hughes Audtiorium, Caruth Hall #147 3145 Dyer Street, Dallas

For five million years the Colorado has carved some of the most majestic landscapes on the planet. It has also become the lifeline of a vast portion of North America, providing the water that sustains nearly forty million people, half a dozen major cities, and an immense agricultural empire. Because of these demands, the river […]

Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX

Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation’s special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century […]

Good Neighbor in the American Historical Imagination: Mexican American Intellectual Thought in the Fight for Civil Rights

Texana Room, Fondren Library Center 6404 Hyer Lane, SMU, Dallas, TX

This talk, by Professor Natalie Mendoza, will examine the writings of Carlos E. Castañeda and George I. Sánchez to show that historical narrative was (and continues to be) a distinct characteristic of Mexican American intellectual thought, one that provided leaders with a compelling way of arguing for full citizenship and treatment as Americans.