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news history peeps: dr elizabeth cobbs melbern g glasscock professor of history february 4 2022 history peeps: dr elizabeth cobbs melbern g glasscock professor of history dr elizabeth cobbs grew up down a two-mile dirt road on the far outskirts of san diego california as a child she vividly remembers the weekly drive to the local library miles away to check-out novels featuring heroines of ancient egypt medieval england and revolutionary france after returning home she would make a peanut butter sandwich to fuel herself for a long literary adventure to faraway times and places before attending college dr cobbs worked as an activist to promote equal rights for youth and women employed by various nonprofit organizations at twenty-two she enrolled at the university of california san diego majoring in literature with a minor in international relations and another in philosophy because she loved sussing out the backstory of these topics she quickly saw history as the common thread uniting them she decided to continue her education in the field of history earning a masters and phd from stanford after teaching for twenty-five years in california she joined the faculty at a&m in addition to writing works of traditional history dr cobbs also writes historical fiction reflecting her childhood love of the genre she relishes immersing readers in the sensate experiences of the past for example while writing the tubman command dr cobbs traveled to south carolina to stick her hands in the tar-like mud lining the banks of the combahee river to better understand the harsh physical obstacles enslaved men and women encountered while escaping bondage she states you have to go there to see those things you will never figure that out from going to an archive one of dr cobbss most rewarding professional experiences was watching her world war one nonfiction book on americas first women soldiers the hello girls come to life in an off-broadway musical while sitting in the audience on 59th street in new york surrounded by the granddaughters of the hello girls cobbs states i had stars in my eyes they were fantastic hello girls also became a childrens book cobbs hopes her scholarship spotlights how people of color and women helped weave the fabric of american history she wants her scholarship to help readers reimagine history revealing that our past was as diverse as our present to what historical figure would dr cobbs like to say howdy if given a chance she would love to meet social reformer and womens rights activist susan b anthony because along with her humor and wit anthony was a person of great integrity and soul by jennifer wells ‘24 faculty history peeps
news felipe hinojosa co-edited collection faith and power february 2 2022 felipe hinojosa co-edited collection faith and power dr felipe hinojosas co-edited collection faith and power: latino religious politics since 1945 with nyu press (co-edited with maggie elmore of sam houston state university and sergio gonzález of marquette university) is being released this week the link is here… https://nyupressorg/9781479804528/faith-and-power/ faith and power compellingly argues that religious politics are central to social movements in the twentieth-century us not peripheral the dozen essays here consist of leading scholars as well as rising figures in the field these essays explore several different latina/o faith communities and their activism through immigration refugee policies de-industrialization the rise of the religious left and right as well as through various preexisting social justice movements this is the first collection of latina/o historians to map out the significance of religion in that communitys everyday life a topic traditionally relegated to non-historians in religious studies units in addition to co-authoring the historiographical introduction felipe also contributes a chapter from the fields to the cities: the rise of latina/o religious politics in the era of civil rights this collaborative effort has persevered through some adversity the organizing symposium here at texas a&m was forced to cancel in the initial days of the pandemic in march of 2020 so the authors continued their vital collaboration remotely with faith and power in 2022 as the result faculty news
news exploring the margins of history conference february 18th & 19th 2022 january 30 2022 exploring the margins of history conference february 18th & 19th 2022 texas a&ms hgso will host the exploring the margins of history graduate student conference this friday and saturday its free and open to the public and emphasizes an inclusive approach to understanding historical narratives dr caleb mcdaniel rice university dr amy rutenberg (christopher gannon/iowa state university) our keynote speaker dr caleb mcdaniel recently received the pulitzer prize in history for sweet taste of liberty mcdaniels timely book traces the harrowing story of henrietta wood a woman who twice survived slavery and even sued the sheriff who conspired with her employer to sell her back into bondage and our distinguished speaker dr amy rutenberg author of rough draft thoughtfully explores how racial inequalities and class disparities impacted military demographics in the years following world war ii click here for more information on the keynote speakers sessions and the conference panels conferences news
news history peeps: kelly cook business coordinator ii december 8 2021 history peeps: kelly cook business coordinator ii kelly cooks texas roots run deep her family has ranched in the area for over one hundred years on six hundred acres divided between two properties known as the olden ranches she remembers hearing stories about how her great-grandfather sold land on walton drive at twenty-five cents an acre i could just imagine what it would be worth today she says with a grin the ranches are family-run operations with immediate and extended family working and living on-site they raise upwards of seventy-five cattle with new calves born from october through january when kelly is home she enjoys trail rides she owns seven quarter horses and keeps a miniature horse for her grandsons dawson and ryker she loves taking dawson and ryker around the farm letting them interact with the animals and she says with a smile whatever else they decide we need to dotheyre miniature bosses when not at the ranch kelly is at the history department kelly started working at texas a&ms beutel health center in 1999 in 2001 she transitioned to the history department where she worked for seven years she returned to the department in 2012 and has seen it flourish with the hiring of new faculty in recent years as the departments business coordinator kelly juggles multiple tasks from processing travel requests (for all visitors faculty and students) to reconciling credit card statements to processing new hires she especially loves planning and coordinating department events to what historical figure would kelly cook like to say howdy given a chance shed love to reconnect with her great-grandmother dymple carll creagor or mama creagor who passed away when kelly was a child her great-grandmother raised three children on a massive ranch by herself kelly would want to ask how she managed to keep everything in check specifically how did she raise all the animals and the children on her own in the mid-1900s jennifer wells 24 history peeps staff
news history peeps: dr evan haefeli associate professor of history november 18 2021 history peeps: dr evan haefeli associate professor of history approaching history imaginatively makes the past more fluid and alive it means questioning the inevitability of events and looking past obvious answers for evan haefeli growing up surrounded by his fathers history books in westhampton new york the long hours he spent thumbing through their glossy illustrations first sparked his imagination to him these books were not old relics about by-gone eras instead their pages promised adventure to distant worlds still unknown he observes with a smile i was just kind of drawn to them by some mysterious force in high school and at hampshire college dr haefeli considered going into film he adapted monty python skits with friends for fun spent a summer working as an extra in alan aldas 1986 comedy sweet liberty and even performed alongside well-known actor liev schreiber in several hampshire college plays in 1992 however the 500th anniversary of christopher columbuss voyage to north america sparked dr haefelis curiosity about native american history he wanted to recover indigenous voices and understand perspectives too often ignored throughout his career dr haefeli has poked holes in historical dogma his creative outlook prompts him to embrace the messiness of history history is not a continuous linear path marching inevitably in one direction instead it consists of ordinary people making ad hoc decisions with unforeseeable outcomes he hopes his scholarship makes it so people dont take america for granted he wants to challenge historians who portray the american revolution or us independence as inevitable dr haefeli also challenges the conventional focus on the thirteen colonies the thirteen rebellious colonies did not exist in a vacuum but were part of a vibrant interconnected network of british and european colonies that pulsed with movement and exchange to what historical figure would evan haefeli like to say howdy if given a chance dr haefeli would love to meet the great inca of the inca empire before the spanish conquistadors arrived haefeli would want to see how the inca created this whole world on their own terms he thinks it would underscore the diversity of human experience and celebrate the different ways of being human jennifer wells 24 faculty history peeps
news sonia hernandez publishes for a just and better world november 4 2021 sonia hernandez publishes for a just and better world dr sonia hernández has just published for a just and better world: engendering anarchism in the mexican borderlands 1900–1938 with the university of illinois press a national leader in labor history! the link is here… https://wwwpressuillinoisedu/books/id=88twt5rb9780252044045 for a just and better world builds upon historic transnational connections between the cosmopolitan port of tampico the rio grande valley of texas the mexican north and ports of entry across the atlantic dr hernández retraces an anarchist-inspired network of labor activists that emerged on the eve of the 1910 mexican revolution mexicanas such as caritina piña montalvo and others fought to promote labor rights locally and abroad they did so by promoting anarchist ideals and envisioning a community of workers beyond geopolitical borders anarchist based organizations were among the first collectives to open doors to women and to incorporate womens issues yet despite such progressivism gendered ideas about femininity and masculinity shaped members perspectives just as much as they shaped mainstream media outlets casting radical female activists as women of ill-repute for a just and better world argues that piña and colleagues employed the language of motherhood which echoed the state discourse on mother-citizens yet for these anarcho-feminists motherhood and maternalism was a catalyst for revolutionary change apart from any state-building project thus their real revolutionnot the 1910 revolutionwas yet to come by the early 1930s anarcho-syndicalism declined as the revolutionary state grew stronger in co-opting organized labor which silenced both anarchists and communists state-sanctioned socialism triumphed but the legacy of womens activism in the form of direct-action and reciprocal organizing remained a distinctive feature of the greater mexican borderlands such historic and gendered border solidarities were foundational to postrevolutionary labor alliances to quote caritina piña their struggles focused on one goal to create a just and better world… on the heels of the publication of reverberations of violence her co-edited anthology a few months ago sonia is having quite the publishing year congrats to our colleague dr sonia hernández for publishing for a just and better world!! books faculty news
news history peeps: raymond mitchell graduate student november 2 2021 history peeps: raymond mitchell graduate student fellow aggies raymond mitchell with his daughter hannah also a student at texas a&m life is unpredictable its path twists and weaves sometimes it challenges us to abandon our comfortable routines and calls us to venture into the murky unknown although many ignore the invitation a brave few accept it in 2014 during raymond mitchells most profitableand arguably his most outwardly successfulyear as an oil and gas attorney in katy texas his quiet discontent hardened into a firm resolve at that moment raymond realized i want to get out of this a self-confessed risk-averse micromanaging planner raymond hatched a plan to upend his life and pursue his true passionstudying history in 2018 after practicing law for twenty-five years raymond began a new journey to further his education he earned a masters in history at sam houston state university and in 2020 started the phd program at texas a&m with a grin raymond says im happy as a clam right now joy has become his default every morning raymond wakes up and thinks this is where i want to be raymond hopes to teach history at the university level as a graduate teaching assistant raymond encourages undergraduates to use historical inquiry to illuminate the vast interconnections that exist between the past present and future he notes everything in history is affected by everything that came before it and it affects everything that comes after it raymond wants students to grasp the totality of history including its nuance and complexity to what historical figure would raymond mitchell like to say howdy given a chance he finds civil war general stonewall jackson a really fascinating [and] bizarre individual and he would love to ask about jacksons war strategy but more than that raymond would like to understand how such a pious manjackson routinely cited scripture and refused to fight on sundayscould justify slavery jennifer wells 24 history peeps
news walter kamphoefner publishes germans in america: a concise history october 27 2021 walter kamphoefner publishes germans in america: a concise history dr walter kamphoefner has just published his highly anticipated big book on the german american presence in us history germans in america: a concise history with rowman & littlefield publishers in this book walter studies the germansthe largest and perhaps the most diverse foreign-language group in 19th century america continuing to focus on history from the bottom up on both sides of the atlantic as he has throughout his ground-breaking career dr kamphoenfer draws heavily upon examples from immigrant letters germans in america presents a number of surprising new insights walter pays particular attention to the german-american institutional network which because of the size and diversity of the immigrant group was especially strong not just parochial schools but public elementary schools in dozens of cities offered instruction in the mother tongue only after 1900 was there a slow transition to the english language in most german churches still the anti-german hysteria of world war i brought not so much a sudden end to cultural preservation as an acceleration of a decline that had already begun beforehand it is from this point on that the largest american ethnic group also became the least visible but especially in rural enclaves traces of the german culture and language persisted to the end of the twentieth century as professor kamphoefner mentions in his notes the last big attempt at a synthesis on this topic was in the mid-1970s this veritable tour de force according to one reviewer is brilliantly told from the bottom up in the best tradition of the new social historys concern for lived experience and inclusivity with regard to race class and gender you can learn more about germans in america here from the publisher https://rowmancom/isbn/9781442264977/germans-in-america-a-concise-history books faculty news
news history peeps: dr olga dror professor of history october 18 2021 history peeps: dr olga dror professor of history true aggie spirit olga dror with her son michael (a&m class of 2014) in japan born in the soviet union olga dror studied vietnamese language and literature at the school of oriental studies at leningrad state university she recalls that admission to the program explicitly gave preference to boys over girls and i liked the challenge but sex discrimination proved easier to overcome than discrimination against jews after she graduated college anti-semitism limited dror in finding a job and she decided to emigrate in 1990 she surrendered her soviet passportand consequently her citizenshipin exchange for documents allowing her to leave the soviet union a stateless person with $300 in her pocket dror emigrated to israel where she decided to study international relations at the hebrew university in jerusalem despite the challenges of a new country and new language israel felt like home there dror states she began again from scratch after the demise of the soviet union when many new israeli embassies opened in the former soviet republics she used her new expertise in international relations to work for the ministry of foreign affair as a consul of israel to the baltic states in 1997 dror started on yet another adventure when she crossed the atlantic to ithaca new york to begin a phd program at cornell university concentrating in southeast asian and east asian history although her new life came with additional challenges like mastering american english dror completed her graduate studies rapidly in 2003 the next year she joined the faculty at a&m when her long journey from st petersburg (formerly leningrad) brought her to college station now the author of five books on vietnam dror enjoys digging through archives interviewing people and exploring countryside temples her goal is to foster a deeper understanding of vietnam and its place in world history dr dror loves teaching she states im thrilled each time i go to class for her the classroom is not only a place to teach new material but also to show students how to argue their point and respect the opinions of the others on a personal note dr dror is most proud of her son michael dror a fellow aggie who graduated in 2014 to what historical figure would dr dror like to say howdy if given a chance dr dror would not mind meeting ho chi minh the first president of the democratic republic of vietnam an enigmatic revolutionary who cemented the vietnamese communist state for decades ho chi minh is the focus of a new book dr dror is writing a book about the cult of personality jennifer wells 24 faculty history peeps
news lorien foote publishes rites of retaliation october 11 2021 lorien foote publishes rites of retaliation dr lorien foote the patricia & bookman peters professor of history and our esteemed colleague has just published rites of retaliation: civilization soldiers and campaigns in the american civil war with unc press this monograph is based on the steven and janice brose lectures at pennsylvania state university that she gave in the fall of 2019 the link to the book is here https://uncpressorg/book/9781469665276/rites-of-retaliation/ dr foote finds that during the civil war union and confederate politicians military commanders everyday soldiers and civilians claimed that their approach to the conflict was civilized in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor one hallmark of such civilized warfare was a highly ritualized approach to retaliation this ritual provided a forum to accuse the enemy of excessive behavior to negotiate redress according to the laws of war and to appeal to the judgment of other civilized nations as the war progressed northerners and southerners feared they were losing this claim to civilization as the attention to retaliation grew more intense when black soldiers joined the union army in campaigns in south carolina georgia and florida raiding plantations and liberating enslaved people confederates argued the war had become a servile insurrection and when confederates massacred black troops after battle killed white union foragers after capture and used prisoners of war as human shields federals thought their enemy raised the black flag by embracing savagery blending military and cultural history this rich and insightful book sheds light on how americans fought over what it meant to be civilized and who should be extended the protections of a civilized world congratulations lorien on this new book that will shed new and important light on one of the most fascinating and debated periods in us history books faculty news
news brian rouleau publishes empires nursery september 28 2021 brian rouleau publishes empires nursery our esteemed colleague and excellent director of undergraduate studies dr brian rouleau has just published empires nursery: childrens literature and the origins of the american century with the highly regarded nyu press here is the web link from nyu press with an amazingly fun and imperial cover! https://nyupressorg/9781479804474/empires-nursery/ in empires nursery brians second monograph he argues that childrens literature in the united states has often been employed to explain the nations international ambitions examining dime novels childrens magazines serialized stories pulp fiction and comic books empires nursery situates young people as a crucial audience for diplomatic discourse in addition rouleau examines the novels short stories and poetry written by children themselves to suggest that throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries juvenile citizens actively sought to contribute to and shape a national conversation about americas growing global influence the modern era has often been called both the american century and the century of the child empires nursery illustrates how those conceptualizations intertwined by depicting children in a rather influential role as the junior partners of us international expansion with chapter titles like how the west was fun and comic book cold war rouleaus empires nursery will not just be an erudite examination of american cultural history and its sense of the world but a book that causes us re-think the reading passions of our own youth with a new understanding and appreciation congratulations brian on this tremendous achievement!! books faculty news