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A City Within A City

I ’ve learned lines cannot be crossed but connect together. As a girl from Louisiana, I didn’t know much about cowboy culture but when I...

Nov 153 min read

The Rosenwald Schools in Texas

In September 2023, a donation came to the Special Collections and Archives department about the Prairie View Training School that used to...

Nov 52 min read

Archives & Digital Storytelling: A Panel Discussion

So, I had the opportunity to talk at a pound discussion about how to engage the community into preserving their materials long-term and...

Nov 11 min read

A Hoedown of a Homecoming

This past weekend at Prairie View A&M University, we celebrated homecoming with the theme of acknowledging legends and legacies. In my...

Oct 123 min read

How to Write a Finding Aid

T his LibGuide is a brief introduction on how to write a Finding Aid for the Student Workers and Volunteers in the Special Collections...

Oct 123 min read

How to Read a Finding Aid

This LibGuide is a brief introduction on how to read a Finding Aid for any new researchers or students seeking to use the Special...

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