Harshika Avula, Lekhya Kintada, Daniel Noorily, Bharath Ram, Kevin Zhang Health Careers High School Senior Division Group Website Between 1932 and 1972, doctors from the United States Public Health Service undertook a project in rural Alabama to allegedly treat “bad blood” and other illnesses among local African-Americans. But these doctors’ real agenda was to observe […]
Student Showcase – Violating the Rights of Humans: One Child Policy in China (1979)
Sarah Zou Sartartia Middle School Junior Division Historical Paper Read Sarah’s Paper In 1979, the Chinese government announced a new “birth planning program” under the reformist leader Deng Xiaoping. Intended to curb China’s explosive population growth, the policy mandated that each married Chinese couple (with some exceptions) have no more than one child. Birth Planning […]
Student Showcase – Liberty Revoked: Korematsu v. The United States
Emma Bodisch Copperas Cove Junior High School Junior Division Individual Documentary Read Emma’s Paper The interment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was one of the most shameful abuses of governmental power in U.S. history. But it did not go uncontested. Fred Korematsu, one of those interned Japanese-Americans, challenged the constitutionality of President Roosevelt’s internment […]
Student Showcase – Colossus of the North
Eduardo Castañeda Nimitz High School Senior Division Individual Exhibit Read Eduardo’s Process Paper In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt announced a new “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823: that the United States would no longer simply protect Latin America from foreign powers, but actively intervene in their domestic affairs. Over the coming decades, the American […]
David’s Mighty Stone: How One Slave Laborer Restored Survivors’ Rights
Kacey Manlove Rockport Fulton High School Senior Division Historical Paper Read Kacey’s Paper Here Nazi Germany was not only responsible for death and violence across Europe. The Third Reich also enslaved millions in their factories. In particular, the German industrial giant I.G. Farben, which produced the Zyklon B that murdered so many during the holocaust, […]
The Texas State Historical Association Launches the Tejano History Handbook Project
History Professors Emilio Zamora, University of Texas, and Andrés Tijerina, Austin Community College, are co-directing the one-year project to increase the number of entries on Mexican Americans in Texas history in the Texas Handbook Online, the well-known and respected encyclopedia of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).
The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters
Many historical accounts of events in the Crimea simply mention that Nikita Khrushchev “gifted” the Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. This does little to explain the Crimea’s current demographic make-up or what happened to put the strategic peninsula in the position to be “given” by Moscow to Ukraine in 1954.
Presidents on NEP for Presidents’ Day
The Latest from Longhorn PhDs
In November we wrote to everyone who received a PhD in History at UT Austin since 2000 to find out what they were doing. We are curious about our former students’ careers and adventures and we want to celebrate their achievements in whatever line of work they pursued. And we still do! We hope everyone […]