CCSW
David Grann – Killers of the Flower Moon
Crum Auditorium, Collins CenterReception begins at 5:30
Giant: The Making of a Legendary American Film
Don Graham, Professor of English, University of Texas
Native Americans as US Citizens and Federal Wards
Tsianina Lomawaima, Clements Center Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Clements Center Lunch: Identity in the State Legislature
Danielle Lemi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Public Policy at the John Tower Center for Political Studies, SMU
Clements Center Lunch: Instrumental Il/legality: Transnational Mexicans and the Family-Based Immigration System
Jennifer A. Cook, Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Public Policy at the John Tower Center for Political Studies, SMU
LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallKyle Longley, Director, LBJ Library
The Colorado: A Documentary Screening and Commentary
Vester Hughes Audtiorium, Caruth Hall #147 3145 Dyer Street, DallasFor 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, TXAnointed 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, TXThis 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.