Paradigm Times

OCTOBER 2020 VOL. 2

PARADIGM TIMES A QUARANZINE FROM THE TAMUSA HISTORY PROGRAM

CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE FACULTY WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES FACULTY PUBLICATIONS STUDENT NEWS AND INTERNSHIPS SPRING COURSE SCHEDULE

SIOUX WRITER AND MUSICIAN ZITKÁLA SÁ (AKA GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN) WAS A SUFFRAGIST AND INDIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST. PHOTO BY GERTRUDE KASEBIER, 1898.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE 19TH AMENDMENT The best way to celebrate the centennial of the 19th amendment is to VOTE.

PHOTO TITLED "1920 FIRST COLORED WOMEN TO VOTE IN ETTRICK, VIRGINIA." COURTESY OF VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY DIGITAL ARCHIVE COLLECTION.

MESSAGE FROM THE FACULTY To Our Students: The COVID-19 pandemic hit seven months ago, and since then, we have all seen our daily lives change dramatically. We faculty members in the history program know that many of you continue to face a multitude of challenges, and we understand the difficulties this brings to your education. Online classes or socially-distanced in-person meetings are not ideal, but we continue to be blown away by how, despite these immense obstacles, you all have not faltered in your commitment to your education and to our program. Please know that we are striving to provide a rigorous curriculum, so that you can continue to thrive in your coursework and think critically about the world around you. In addition to the pandemic, 2020 has witnessed the centennial for the 19th amendment, mass social protest movements, and an intense presidential election, to name but a few. History is about the present as much as it is about the past, and we are here to help you all have a strong historical grounding for these current events. Do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or concerns. We are all in this together.

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The classic narrative for the woman suffrage movement centers on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton —two extraordinary women, but certainly not the only suffragists. In 1881, Anthony, Stanton, and Matilda Gage published volume 1 of their magnum opus, The History of Woman Suffrage, which created a narrative that placed their work at the center of the movement, and excluded the work of many women of color.

From the 1830s to 1920 and beyond, however, women of all races and backgrounds worked for suffrage.

Zitkála Sá (pictured on the cover), Jovita Idar, and Ida B. Wells worked for suffrage at the local, state, and national levels. For these women, the vote itself was only one element in a larger campaign for civil rights. The best way to honor the century-long struggle for woman suffrage is to exercise the very right for which they fought so passionately—VOTE. For free resources on this history, see

"WOMAN SUFFRAGE, BONFIRE ON SIDEWALK BEFORE WHITE HOUSE," 1918, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

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Podcast: And Nothing Less Podcast: Waiting for Liberty PBS documentary The Vote The Radcliffe Institute's "Suffrage Syllabus" Journal of Women's History, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2020 via TAMUSA library database Dr. Philis Barragán Goetz's talk for the President's Commission on Equity titled "Gender, Race, and Class in the Woman Suffrage Movement."

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WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES WGST SPEAKER EVENT ON WOMEN IN POLITICS On October 13, the Women and Gender Studies minor program hosted virtual event with Dr. Tiffany González, the Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History at Tulane University, who gave a talk entitled "“Women Make Policy, Not Coffee': The Fight for Women's Political Representation.” González's lecture, based on her manuscript Representations for a Change: How Chicanas Transformed American Politics in the Twentieth Century, examined the ways in which Latinas engaged in the political system, both as grassroots activists and as politicians who drew from these grassroots networks to run for office.

TEXAS STATE REP. IRMA RANGEL (RIGHT) AND COLORADO STATE REP. POLLY BARRAGÁN (LEFT), 1979.

WGST 2301: INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES ONLINE DR. MERRITT REHN-DEBRAAL This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Women and Gender Studies, drawing from a range of diverse disciplines, such as History, Philosophy, Literature, Political Science, and Sociology. It covers the origins of the field, as well as significant themes, ideas, and conceptual frameworks.

This course will also provide a foundation for future courses in Women and Gender Studies, and fulfills the "Language, Philosophy, and Culture" category of the core curriculum.

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TAMUSA FACULTY & PUBLIC HISTORY Scholarly Activity Beyond the Academy

DR. AMY PORTER RECORDING MINUTES FOR THE BEXAR COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION MEETING, BEXAR COUNTY COURT HOUSE, OCT. 7, 2020.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS And Other Scholarly Activities Several faculty in our program have published either books or articles this year, and presented at academic conferences.

Dr. Francis Galan published his first book this summer. He will be giving a virtual book talk in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Dr. Philis Barragán Goetz also published her first book earlier this year, and will be giving a virtual book talk in the coming months.

Stay tuned! She was interviewed by the New Books Network podcast and gave a talk for the Museum of South Texas History recently.

Dr. William Kiser is serving a three-year term on the Southwestern Historical Quarterly editorial board, and presented his research at the Western History Association conference earlier this month.

Dr. Edward Westermann has two forthcoming articles: “Words and Wars of Conquest: The Rhetoric of Annihilation in the American West and the Nazi East,” in German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires, ed. Janne Lahti (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming Dec 2020) and “Icarus Meets Athena: A Case for Teaching Airpower History in the Academy,” in Educating Air Forces: Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning, ed.

Randall Wakelam and David Varey (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming Dec 2020).

Dr. Bill Bush, along with his co-editor David Tanenhaus, were interviewed about their recent anthology, Ages of Anxiety. In August, he also presented his research at a conference at the Witte Museum and for the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Dr. Amy Porter has been collaborating with historians at other universities to write The Mexican American History of Texas and Beyond, a textbook on Mexican American history. It will be published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company next year.

Dr. Gene Morales presented his research at the Western History Association earlier this month.

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The National Council on Public History defines public history as "history that is applied to real world issues." Historians carry out a number of different tasks to apply their research to our contemporary society, bridging the gap between academia and daily life.

A number of TAMUSA faculty lend their expertise to various local organizations to help them advocate for their issues more effectively. Drs. Amy Porter and Francis Galan are members of the Bexar County Historical Commission (BCHC). The BCHC accepts historical marker applications for the County and provides feedback on the applications before they are sent to the Texas State Historical Commission. The BCHC also engages in local history projects, such as the Bexar Heritage Center located in the County Courthouse, a new initiative for Bexar County.

Dr. Bill Bush has served as an expert witness in juvenile justice court cases.

He also wrote an op-ed for the San Antonio Express News and was interviewed by the Austin American Statesman.

Dr. Philis Barragán Goetz has given multiple lectures to AmeriCorps/City Year, Teach for America, and Leadership SAISD on the history of race, class, and education in SA. She has also engaged her students in public history work. In Spring 2019 and Spring 2020, her Methods students conducted research focused on Black history in SA. This last spring, they created a collection on TAMUSA's Digital Commons. Some of the students' research has contributed to exhibits for the San Antonio Community Archive and Museum.

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RECENT FACULTY BOOKS READING, WRITING, AND REVOLUTION: ESCUELITAS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN TEXAS, PHILIS BARRAGÁN GOETZ, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, APRIL 2020 In the first book on the history of escuelitas, Barragán Goetz argues, "Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethnic Mexicans’ relationship to education —including their enrollment in the Spanish-language community schools called escuelitas—served as a vehicle to negotiate that power. Situating the history of escuelitas within the contexts of modernization, progressivism, public education, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration, Reading, Writing, and Revolution traces how the proliferation and decline of these community schools helped shape Mexican American identity."

LOS ADAES: THE FIRST CAPITAL OF SPANISH TEXAS, FRANCIS X. GALAN, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS, JUNE 2020 "In the first book devoted to Los Adaes, Galan traces the roots of the current US-Mexico border to the colonial history of this all but forgotten Spanish fort and mission. He demonstrates that, despite efforts to the contrary, Spain could neither fully block the penetration of smuggled goods and settlers into Texas from Louisiana nor could it successfully convert the Native Americans to Christianity and the Spanish economic system. In the aftermath of the transfer of Louisiana from France to Spain in 1762, Spain chose to shutter the fort and mission.The settlers, or Adaeseños, were forced to march to San Antonio in 1773."

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STUDENT NEWS

HISTORY CLUB

Celebrating the Success of Current Students and Alumni

Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Francis Galan and Dr. Dolph Briscoe

Mónica Palacios, Robert Grey Miller, and David Barnds received Nau Fellowships to the History MA program at UTSA. Michael Gray, Cat Garza, and Marc Calderón also began in UTSA's MA program this fall. Cristal Mendez enrolled in the St. Mary's University MA History program with a public history scholarship.

Valerie Saucedo is in the MLS program at Texas Woman's University. Congratulations to all our amazing students!

Marc Molina, currently a doctoral student at UT El Paso's History Department, created a digital exhibit for the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM). The exhibit is based on his research for Dr. Barragán Goetz's Methods class. Marc also participated in an alumni spotlight event in September, and presented his research on environmental history at the Western History Association conference earlier this month.

Earlier this year, the History Club won an award for "upper division chapter of the year" from the Webb Society.

The History Club officers are President: Emilia Guerrero Vice-President: Dani Vidal Secretary: Elisabeth Ruiz Treasurer: Amanda Kelley Social Media Relations: Dylan Merten

PHI ALPHA THETA Faculty Sponsor: Dr. William Kiser

Mónica Palacios and Edwin Ocasio-Lopez's research, completed in Dr. Barragán Goetz's Methods class, contributed to digital and in-person exhibits for SAAACAM. Ocasio-Lopez's work was part of an exhibit at the SA Airport in summer 2020.

Phi Alpha Theta initiations are postponed until the Spring.

William Stott, a History doctoral student at Texas Tech, also presented his research at the Western Historical Association conference earlier this month. For a Q&A with William, see the "Featured Alumni" section of our program's website.

Requirements for initiation are at least 12 completed credit hours in history, with a minimum 3.1 overall GPA in history courses, and minimum 3.0 overall GPA.

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS A number of our students have had the opportunity to learn various skills as student interns. Emilia Guerrero is currently interning at the TAMUSA Special Collections at the Presidio Gallery. Dr. Galan is the faculty sponsor for the Presidio Gallery internship.

Dr. Westermann oversees an internship with the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, where Elisabeth Ruiz is currently the intern. She is working to help create a traveling exhibit.

EMILIA GUERRERO, HISTORY INTERN, RECEIVING A DONATED TEJANO HISTORY COLLECTION, PRESIDIO GALLERY, OCTOBER 7, 2020.

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Moriah Torres, Marc Molina, and Mónica Palacios have worked as student research interns for SAAACAM, where they have conducted original research on Black history in San Antonio. Each of them have had their research contribute to digital and in-person exhibits.

If you are interested in any of these internships, contact the respective faculty member.

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SPRING 2021 COURSE SCHEDULE

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