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September 15, 2020Constitution Day: Hamilton edition
To prepare for Constitution Day, revisit our story featuring history professor Elizabeth Cobbs!
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June 11, 2020Can the president really order troops into US cities?
Texas A&M experts explain the Insurrection Act of 1807 and the powers it gives a president to deploy the military on domestic soil.
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June 4, 2020The urgency of peaceful protest
Elizabeth Cobbs, the Melbern G. Glasscock chair in American history, discusses how holding the moral high ground is crucial to advancing a cause in her op-ed for The Washington Post.
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October 25, 2019National Book Month: Harriet and The Tubman Command
October is National Book Month, and the College of Liberal Arts will be celebrating all month long! For our last feature we talked with historian Elizabeth Cobbs about the national conversation surrounding Harriet Tubman and why American history is needed now more than ever.
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September 17, 2019Constitution Day: Hamilton edition
For Constitution Day, Elizabeth Cobbs, New York Times best-selling author of The Hamilton Affair, gives an inside look at the foundational, but little-known, role that Alexander Hamilton played in the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
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July 10, 2019Number, please? ‘Hello Girls’ answered the call in World War I
History professor Elizabeth Cobbs resurrected the story of women soldiers in WWI with her book “The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers.”
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April 1, 2019A new revolution: Artificial Intelligence and the future of work
A Q&A with history professor Elizabeth Cobbs in anticipation for the screening event on April 15 of her new documentary, CyberWorks and the American Dream.
