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Transatlantic
History Ph.D. – Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington
In 1998, the UTA implemented a Ph.D. program in
Transatlantic History. Unlike other doctoral programs, the Ph.D. Program in
Transatlantic focuses on the interactions of people and regions across the
Atlantic from the fifteenth century to the present time. The program is not defined by political
boundaries, and students explore the interactions and cross-cultural
developments between Europe, Africa, and the Americas over the last six
centuries. Also, check out the Transatlantic
History Doctoral Program at UT Arlington page on Facebook and Transatlantic History
in Texas: University of Texas at Arlington on
Historians TV, from the
American Historical Association.
Department of
History – University of Texas at Arlington
The History department offers a number of courses and
specializations for students wishing to pursue a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. degree at
UTA.
Traversea: Journal of
Transatlantic History
Traversea is a
peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the publication of research in
transatlantic history. Transatlantic history pertains to the interconnectedness
of human experience and cross-cultural encounters of Europe, Africa, and the
Americas (North and South) from 1500 to the present. Transatlantic history is
inherently interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparative in approach and
moves beyond the boundaries imposed by the concept of the nation state. The
editors invite submissions that are historical, geographical, anthropological,
literary, sociological, and cartographic in nature. Traversea
is operated by doctoral students as a joint project between the Transatlantic
History Student Organization and the doctoral program in transatlantic history
at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Phi
Alpha Theta – Omicron Kappa Chapter
The purpose of UTA’s Phi Alpha Theta chapter is to
promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good
teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among
historians. THSO often
co-hosts many events with Phi Alpha Theta.
The newsletter of the UTA History Department offers
news and information on THSO and UTA history graduate students.
The University of
Texas at Arlington Library
The library and its website offer many useful starting
points for research.
Center
for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography
UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the
History of Cartography fosters interdisciplinary study of the Southwest and
publicizes the University's Special Collections pertaining to the region and
its cartographic history.
On the sixth floor of UTA’s Central Library, Special
Collections specializes in historical materials relating to Texas, the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the cartographic history of Texas and the
Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico from 1810-1920.
The collections include more than 30,000 volumes, 7,000 linear feet of
manuscript and archival collections, 5,000 historical maps, 3,600,000
photographic prints and negatives, and thousands of items in other formats.
UTA hosts a project called Cartographic Connections: Improving Teaching through the Use of
Historic Maps, which is a three-year, interactive electronic pilot
project. Its goal is to connect
secondary school students and teachers to a primary source—historic maps of
Texas, the Southwest and beyond, dating from the 1500s through the 1900s. Through the use of maps, students gain a
better understanding of history and the sources that reveal it.
Walter
Prescott Webb Lecture Series
Renowned historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963)
was intimately associated with the University of Texas, he repeatedly asserted
that this institution had a bright future, urged his and other graduate students
to join its faculty, and followed its growth in size and stature with the
special interest of a man seeing his prophecies fulfilled. For decades now, UTA’s Department of History
has respectfully dedicates a lecture series to his memory.
The Texas Map Society was organized in 1996 to foster
the study, understanding, and collecting of historical maps and the history of
cartography. Membership only requires an
interest in maps of any nature and any focus.
Members support the activities of the society and participate in special
events and programs. The Texas Map
Society is one of only a few such societies in the United States and the only
one in Texas.
Society
for the History of Discoveries
The Society for the History of Discoveries was formed
to stimulate interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of
geographical exploration. Founded in 1960, the Society includes members from
several academic disciplines as well as archivists, non-affiliated scholars,
and laypersons with an interest in history.
The scope of the Society's activities encompasses the discovery,
exploration, and mapping of the earth's land and sea surface from earliest
times to the present—the explorers and the explored. The Society’s publications includes Terrae
Incognitae, a journal of research papers and
book reviews published annually since 1969, and five volumes in the series Studies in the History of Discoveries
published jointly with the Newberry Library.
International
Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825
The Atlantic History Seminar was established at
Harvard University in 1995 by Bernard Bailyn, under
the auspices of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Its aim is to promote the scholarship of
historians from many nations interested in the early years of Atlantic history.
The Graduate Student Senate is the branch of Student
Government representing our interests to the administration.
Transatlantic History Doctoral Program
THSO, Department of History, Box 19529, 601 S. Nedderman Drive, 201 University Hall, Arlington, TX 76019
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