Dr. Takkara Brunson’s book, Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (University of Florida Press, 2021), was selected as one of two winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book prize for African American women’s history! This prize is bestowed annually by the Association of Black Women Historians and is a terrific and well-deserved […]
David Vaught has published his fourth research monograph, Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry (Texas A&M University Press). Check out the blurbs on the Press website! Written for both scholarly and general audiences, Spitter is the first full-length biography of Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry—the notorious spitballer.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the College of Arts and Sciences talks to History Associate Professor Sonia Hernández about the nonprofit public history project she helped found.
