Historians and archivists will lead a Finding Your Roots on Saturday, May 13, from 12:00-1:00 pm at the Bullock Museum. The workshop aims to help researchers to extrapolate from historical documents and archival sources the often fragmentary personal stories of enslaved men, women, and children. Maria Esther Hammack, a PhD student in the Department of […]
A Conversation with Dr. Peniel Joseph
By Edward Shore Dr. Peniel Joseph, an accomplished scholar, teacher, and a leading public voice on race in the United States, holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. This past January, Dr. Joseph inaugurated the Center for the Study of Race […]