On May 20, 2011, the UT Department of History was pleased to welcome one of our most illustrious graduates to deliver this year's Commencement Address. Renowned trial lawyer and generous UT supporter, Joe Jamail (JD 1953, BA History, 1950), treated graduates and their families to his thoughts on the ways that studying History at UT made him the lawyer he became.
Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)
Islam has a long tradition in Africa dating back to the seventh century. Today, Islam plays a crucial role in the political, socio-cultural, religious, and economic lives of the population.
Thurgood (2011)
Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States
H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy (2001)
The Voices of Morebath chronicles the coming of the English Reformation to a small village in sixteenth-century Devonshire. Duffy tells the story of Morebath through the eyes of its boisterous vicar, Sir Christopher Trychay, who kept exceptionally detailed records during his fifty-four year career in the village.