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10/29/2026

⚾ History professor or Milwaukee Brewer? Take your best guess.

Professor David Charles Robinson is a Milwaukee native, lifelong Brewers fan, and hardcore baseball enthusiast. Before entering academia, Professor Robinson produced Brewers game telecasts for Fox Sports North. To celebrate the Brewers' World Series championship, he brought two of his greatest passions together, baseball and history, turning an ordinary class into a memorable experience for his students.

Some professors bring slides. Others bring the whole ballpark.

10/28/2026

Celebrating our faculty! 🎉❤️

The annual Academic Professional Faculty Reception honors full-time and per-course faculty working off the tenure track and their contributions to the university community. We’re excited to recognize Dr. Shannon Duffy, who served on this year’s reception committee! 🐾

10/23/2026

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Paul Anthony! 🎓

We’re thrilled to celebrate Dr. Paul Anthony, who successfully defended his dissertation," 'It Is Not Safe for Them:’ Mormon Fundamentalism, News Media, and the 2008 Texas Raid of the FLDS,” at Florida State University.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Anthony on this incredible achievement! 👏

10/22/2026

Cradled by Grace, produced by Dr. Courtney Cook, will have its world premiere at the 2026 Austin Film Festival (October 29 - November 5). Blending archival footage with vérité scenes of Austin’s music community, the documentary, directed by Vanessa Reiser, follows celebrated jazz trumpeter and Texas State alum Ephraim Owens as a major health crisis interrupts his plans to perform a concerto written in his honor with the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Cook on this premiere!

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/austin-film-festival-adds-documentary-premieres-oscar-contenders-and-newly-minted-emmy-winners/

10/21/2026

Faculty Spotlight ✨

Dr. Shannon Duffy recently gave a keynote talk for Elevating Civic Education, a two-day teaching workshop for K-12 educators in San Antonio. Sponsored by the Region 20 Education Service Center and the National Constitution Center, the workshop brought together educators committed to strengthening civic education in the classroom.

Her keynote presentation was titled"Not (Just) About the Money: Parliament Provokes the Revolutionary Crisis."

Congratulations, Dr. Duffy! 👏

10/19/2026

🐾 That’s a wrap on Bobcat Day!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, learn more about the History Department, and spend some time with us! We loved getting to meet so many future Bobcats and their families.

We’re already looking forward to the next Bobcat Day. See you then!

10/15/2026

🐾 Heading to Bobcat Day? Be sure to stop by the History Department table and say hello! We'd love to meet you, answer your questions, and help you learn more about studying history at TXST.

See you there!

10/14/2026

🚨 Happening tomorrow! 🚨

Join us for a live recording of Lone Star Lore as we dive into one of the most notorious true crime stories in Texas history: Murders in the Mansion: The T. Cullen Davis Story.

Hosted by Matthew Thornton and Joleene Maddox Snider, with special guest prosecutor Kirsta Melton, this evening will explore crime, wealth, justice, and the case that captivated Texas.

📅 Thursday, October 15
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 Taylor Murphy Hall 104, Texas State University

✅ Free and open to the public
✅ Reception to follow

Don't miss this fascinating public history event!

10/13/2026

“I am stronger than I am broken.”
—Roxane Gay, from HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY

🌟 Roxane Gay, Visiting Writer Event: Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series 🌟

EVENT DETAILS
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Reception: 3:00 p.m. | Reading: 3:30 p.m., The Wittliff Collections

WRITER BIO
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best S*x Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.

If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact (512) 245-2163 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.

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Special thanks to our event co-sponsors!
TXST Liberal Arts
Texas State History
Department of Philosophy TXST
Texas State Honors College
Center for the Study of the Southwest

10/13/2026

Congratulations to Dr. José Carlos de la Puente on being awarded the 2026 Tibesar Article Prize for his article,"Andean Primordial Titles, Land Repossession, and the Rise of New Communities during the First General Land Inspection (1594–1602)." The prize, awarded annually by the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) in cooperation with The Americas, recognizes the most distinguished article published in the journal. This marks the second time José Carlos has received this prestigious honor, having also won the Tibesar Prize in 2015 for his article,"That Which Belongs to All: Khipus, Community, and Indigenous Legal Activism in the Early Colonial Andes." Congratulations on this outstanding achievement! 🎉📚

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/andean-primordial-titles-land-repossession-and-the-rise-of-new-communities-during-the-first-general-land-inspection-15941602/25A64C6C118C4791FBD998E1CBE1ED1F

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