Leslie Torres has received first place in the graduate division paper contest of the Caldwell Memorial Awards for Excellence in History by the Walter Prescott Webb Society of the Texas State Historical Association. Congrats, Leslie Torres (she/her)! We are very proud of you!

Congratulations, Jonathan!

Congrats to PhD student Tristan Krause '26 whose work with the Defense POW-MIA agency has led to U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Henry L. Stevens, 23, of Monroe, LA, being accounted for in Belgium.

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Congrats to graduate student Valeria Torres ‘22 who will present on the panel 'The Legacy of Texas Land Grants' with the paper 'The Litigation of Mexican American Land Grants in Texas.' Gig 'em!

Congrats to graduate student Maddie Setiawan successfully defended her MA thesis on Feb. 21st titled “Trust to Us, the Union Men of the South”: The 1866 Southern Loyalist Convention and the Fight for Reconstruction”

Congrats to graduate students Leslie Torres ‘24, Jillian Glantz ‘24 & Gabrielle Lyle ‘24 who have a panel entitled 'Breaking Down Binaries in South Texas: The Roles of African American, Jewish, and Tejana Women in Community Building.'

Well done, Noah!

HGSO would like to congratulate four of our MA defenders this month—Brandon, Maddie, Sophie, and Margaret! And, to Dan and Tristan for officially becoming PhD candidates this week! Gig ‘em!

Congratulations, Brandon!

Friendship bracelets, cowboy hats, a reunion, and a BeReal, here are some very fun pictures from our conference!

What a great time with our keynote speaker Christian Pinnen on his book, “Complexion of Empire in Natchez.”

Awaiting what’s sure to be a great keynote address from Kara Dixon Vuic !

Waiting for the last panels in our session to begin on “The Gilded Age and Progressive Era.” SHGAPE

A fun and interesting panel on Reconstruction, “Constructing and Challenging Ideas of Race in the Post Civil War South.”

Ended the first day of our 14th Annual HGSO Conference with a fantastic keynote address from Kara Dixon Vuic!

Dr. Lorien Foote moderating the roundtable discussion on “Civil War Prisoners Navigating Crisis: A Roundtable of Undergraduate Research for a Digital History Project.”

A look into one of our military panels, “World War II on the Margins: Reassessing the Periphery.” History at TAMU Texas A&M University SMH Historians