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Presentations, organized by speakers

Joseph O. Aimone

  • Besides Hughes: Other Facets of Harlem Renaissance Poetry
  • Natural Selection and the Human Love of Poetry
  • Robert Frost as a Love Poet
  • Talking Poetry: Slam and the Spoken Word Renaissance
  • Thoroughly Modern Millay
  • What's Love Got to Do with Poetry?

Ward S. Albro

  • A Celebration of Life: The Day of the Dead in Oaxaca
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Collecting Mexican Folk Art in Texas

Raye Virginia Allen

  • An Image-maker from Texas: Woman Artist Gordon Conway Celebrates the Jazz Age
  • A New Look for a New Woman: The Designs and Times of Gordon Conway

Félix D. Almaráz Jr.

  • A Chautauqua Experience: An Evening with Senator Sam Houston
  • A High Adventure in Cultural Awareness

Armando C. Alonzo

  • Hispanic Texas in the Twentieth Century
  • The Rise of a Border Society in Texas, 1700-1865

Julia S. Ardery

  • White Roses for the Bride, Red Begonias for the Dictator
  • Why We Fell in Love with Folk Art

Byron D. Augustin

  • Agrarian Reform and Social Change in Mexico
  • Cultural Change Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Islam for Beginners
  • The Role of Women on the Arabian Peninsula
  • Understanding the Arabs

Sabrina Barton

  • Teaching Film and Visual Literacy

Terry D. Bilhartz

  • Sacred Words from the East and the West

John Francis Burke

  • The Impact of Popular Religion on U.S. Culture, Politics, and Spirituality
  • Mestizo Democracy: Cultivating Unity in Diversity

Norma E. Cantú

  • Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
  • Chicano Literature of the Tejano Borderlands
  • La Quinceañera and Other Latina Life-Cycle Markers

Gena Caponi-Tabery

  • Slam Dunking the Moment
  • Jump for Joy: Jump Blues, Jump Shots, the Jitterbug, and American Culture

Ronald A. Carson

  • The Human Side of Health Care
  • Medical Ethics Inside Out

Ty Cashion

  • Evangelism and the Related Occupation of Coaching Football in Texas

Filipe Castro

  • Reconstructing a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Indiaman

Derek Catsam

  • At Any Cost: Global Terrorism
  • A Brave Wonderful Thing: The Freedom Rides
  • Bleeding Red: Baseball and Fandom
  • The Tragedy and Promise of Modern Africa
  • We Will Not Ride: Civil Rights in the United States and South Africa

Thomas R. Cole

  • Ethical and Spiritual Issues in End-of-Life Care
  • The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Houston and the Life of Civil Rights Leader Eldrewey Stearns

Caroline Castillo Crimm

  • Hispanics in Early Texas
  • History by Dilemma
  • Religious Controversies in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island: The Story of Samuel Gorton of Warwick, Rhode Island

Stephen Curley

  • Chanteys: Work Songs at Sea
  • Jean Lafitte: Pirate

Jesús F. de la Teja

  • Spanish Texas: A Historical Legacy
  • The First Texas War of Independence
  • Teaching Texas History in the Twenty-first Century

Chris Ellery

  • Poetry and Value

Faridoun Farrokh

  • Fiction and Women's Media Activism in Iran
  • The Myth of the Assassins and the Rise of Ismaili Shiites in Medieval Iran

Gene Fowler

  • Border Radio
  • Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters
  • The Milling Brothers: Texas “Outlaw” Medicine Men
  • Texas Medicine Show

Richard Francaviglia

  • The Cross Timbers

Don Graham

  • Texas Films: The Awful Truth
  • The Movie Giant as the Archetypal Texas Film: A Study in Gender, Race, and History

Pete A. Y. Gunter

  • The Big Thicket: Ecology and a Philosophy of Value
  • Frontier Mentality and the New World of Texas: Time for a New Ethics?

Richard L. Hooverson

  • A Fast Ride through Texas: Researching the Lone Star State

Kathleen Hudson

  • Belle Starr
  • Telling Stories, Singing Songs
  • Jimmie Rodgers and Texas Music
  • Past Is Prologue: A Way of Learning
  • The Power of Stories
  • Women and Texas Music

Jaclyn Lee Jeffrey

  • "It Might Happen, It Might Happen": How Communities Cope with Catastrophe
  • Places of Knowing, Territories of Time: The Importance of Place Attachment in Development and Change

Howard Jones

  • African-American Fraternal, Social, and Civic Organizations
  • Juneteenth: Its Meaning
  • It’s in Our History: You Will Succeed
  • Texas: This Land Is Ours

Martha Everman Jones

  • "Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land"

Manoucher Khosrowshahi

  • Understanding Islam and Muslims: New Challenges for the American Educational System

Martha Ann Kirk

  • Ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Women's Stories: Contemporary Wisdom and Compassion

Judith L. Lauter

  • Zebras, Brains, and Fingerprints: How Prenatal Hormones Shape the Human Brain

Carole Lester

  • Like Dried Blossoms in the Wind: Images of Nineteenth-Century Western Woman
  • Rural Texas Women at Work

Yolanda Chávez Leyva

  • Crossing the Line: Mexican Children on the Texas-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Por la Raza y Para la Raza: The History of Mexican-American Women’s Activism in Texas
  • Recovering Neighborhood History

Louis J. Marchiafava

  • Oral History: Preserving the Voices of Our Past
  • Rediscovering Local History

Archie P. McDonald

  • Back Then: Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes
  • Tunes of the Times: A Musical Program
  • Wedges of Separation

Manuel F. Medrano

  • Los del Valle Oral History Series
  • In Body and Mind/En cuerpo y mente

Char Miller

  • Guns and Butter: World War II and the Development of Texas
  • Why the Suburban is the State Car of Texas

Bryce Milligan

  • Readings

Jefferson Morgenthaler

  • German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country
  • La Junta de los Rios

Dave Oliphant

  • The Poetry of Chile
  • Texans in Jazz History

Joe Nick Patoski

  • The Drives of Texas
  • Mexican-American Music in Texas
  • The Rise of the Austin Music Scene: 1950 to Today
  • Selena: The Queen of Tejano
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan: Dallas Rock, Austin Blues, and the Life and Times of the Last Great Blues Guitarist
  • Texas Music 101: At the Crossroads
  • Why Texans are Texans: What Makes Us Different from Everywhere Else?

John D. Potter Jr.

  • A Day in 1800s Texas

Raúl A. Ramos

  • New Perspectives on Teaching Texas History
  • El Centenario: Mexican Independence Day Celebrations in the American Southwest

R. Clay Reynolds

  • The Fate of the Great Western Novel
  • Literary Worth: Assessments of Artistic Measures
  • Garbage In, Garbage Out
  • The Role of the Writer in the Academy
  • The Novel in America
  • Selected Readings with Discussion
  • The Role of Irony in the Distinction between Wit and Wisdom

C. Wayne Smith

  • An Ocean of Opportunities
  • Archaeology, Science and Interdisciplinary Research
  • Everything You Can Imagine is Real

Jan Epton Seale

  • Passing the Light: How Elderwisdom Shapes the Future of Families

Rebecca Sharpless

  • Texas Farm Women: Their Lives, Their Words
  • Cooking and Southern Women: A History

Jerry Thompson

  • Defending the Mexican Name in Texas: The Life and Times of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
  • Mexican Texans in the Civil War

Roger Wood

  • Lone Star La-la: Texas and Zydeco Music
  • Texas Blues and Its Impact on Popular Culture

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