The Treasures of the Texas Collection

The Treasures of the Texas Collection examines the January 22, 1927 Baylor University basketball bus disaster known as the Immortal Ten.

Robert Darden and Mark Andrew Olson investigate Daniel R.

Robert Darden and Mark Andrew Olson examine Dorothy Scarborough's life as a Baylor graduate, Columbia professor, novelist, and Texas folklorist.

Robert Darden and Scott Lewis examine how A.J.

Robert Darden interviews Rebecca Sharpless about Baylor's Texas Collection, which holds about 1,500 Texas-focused cookbooks, including rare titles and some unique catalog copies.

Robert Darden and Carl Hoover trace pulp fiction from 19th-century dime novels printed on wood-pulp paper to magazines such as Argosy, Black Mask, Amazing Stories, and Weird Tales.

Robert Darden and Brad Owens examine Texas high school football through the Texas Collection’s archive of Texas Football magazine, founded by Dave Campbell in 1960.

Robert Darden and Corley Sims examine 21 Texas Collection maps spanning 231 years of exploration, territorial change, and settlement.

Robert Darden and Corley Sims examine Samuel Palmer Brooks’s presidency at Baylor University from 1902 to 1931, including enrollment growth, the bear mascot, educational reform, and human-rights advocacy.

Kenneth Haferteep tells Robert Darden that Texas buildings communicate through materials, structural systems, ornament, and relationships to architectural ancestors.

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Robert Darden and Pather Carey examine Rufus C.

Robert Darden and Mark Andrew Olson recount William P.

Terry Jo Ryan describes how Baylor University’s Texas Collection helps family researchers use county records, census materials, church histories, funeral home files, cookbooks, and family record books.

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The Treasures of the Texas Collection examines William and Anne Bagby’s Baptist missionary work in Brazil, beginning with their arrival in 1881 and the Texas Collection’s nearly 1,600 folders of related documents.

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This episode explores firsthand accounts from the American Civil War found in the Texas Collection archives.

This episode explores the life of Texas governor Pat Morris Neff, discussing his role in creating the state park system and saving Baylor University.

This episode explores the historical significance of Independence, Texas, a once-powerful village that played a key role in the Texas Republic and the founding of Baylor University.