Tag: history
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That’s Shakespeare, With One ‘S’
By Jessica Sinn English Professor Confirms the Bard’s Hand in The Spanish Tragedy For centuries, scholars have been searching for answers to a literary mystery: Who wrote the five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”? Mounting arguments point to William Shakespeare, but English professor Douglas Bruster has recently found evidence confirming that the 325 additional lines are indeed the…
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King’s Treasure
Digital Archive Holds Untold History of African American Mental Health By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Resplendent in his trademark sport coat and bow tie, Louis Armstrong plays a trumpet for a large gathering of patients underneath a grove of trees outside of Central State Hospital, the world’s first African American psychiatric hospital in Petersburg,…
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Dr. Dustin Tahmahkera: Examining Representations of Native People in Pop Culture
By Jessica Sinn • January 25, 2016 Dr. Tahmahkera, a citizen of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, examines how native people are represented in music, television, film and online. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and the author of Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms (University of North Carolina Pres, 2014). We caught…
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Recap: 2020 Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights
By Jessica Sinn • March 10, 2020 Latinx voter mobilization, the impact of the U.S. Census, and racial inequities within the U.S. criminal justice system were the big topics of our 34th Annual Heman Marion Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights, held on Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Engineering Education and Research Center. Below are a few highlights from…
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Allies & Advocates: Jordan Walters
By Jessica Sinn • June 10, 2020 Name: Jordan Walters Major: History/African & African Diaspora Studies Junior Programs and activities: Afrikan American Affairs, Texas Blazers, One Texas Committee, Campus Climate Advisory Board, Warfield Center for African and African American Studies Jordan Walters is the outgoing director of operations and current ad-hoc student adviser for Afrikan American Affairs, a student agency within…
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