Webb Teacher Workshop

Free Teacher Workshop

Saturday, April 22, 2023

UTA Central Library, 6th Floor Parlor

 FOUR (4) HOURS of CPE (Continuing Professional Education) at NO CHARGE

Free Continental breakfast and lunch will be served.

For more information and to save your seat, please call 817-272-2861

 

Women & Power In 20th Century Texas

 

Schedule

 

8:30-9:00 AM

Welcome

Continental Breakfast Served

 

9:00-10:30 AM

Monuments and Memory in Texas History: From Sacred Sites to Martial Symbols

 

Since the late nineteenth century, monuments have helped Texans  celebrate their state’s past. But like any cultural artifact, they can be seen in different ways. This lecture will examine how women’s organizations, like the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and male business leaders have used the Alamo, the San Jacinto Monument, and other sites to create their own distinct interpretations of the state’s heritage.

Sam W. Haynes is Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent book is Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas (2022).

 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Women and Politics: Ideas for Incorporating Lessons from  Women’s History into Texas History Classrooms

 

Who has had power in Texas and why?  Using the insights from recent scholarship in U.S. Women’s History and the experiences of women listed in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards, this presentation attempts to answer that question by explaining the role of gender, as well as class and ethnicity, in determining formal and informal power in Texas.

Stephanie Cole is Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.  She is co-editor of Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (2016).

 

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch and Discussion

 

  


Speakers

 

Sam HaynesDr. Sam Haynes has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington since 1993. Since 2008, he has served as the director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). For the past few years is research has focused on 19th century Texas and the American Southwest. His most recent book, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas (2022), seeks to offer a new interpretation of the founding of early modern Texas.

 

 

 

 

Stephanie Cole

Dr. Stephanie Cole received her PhD from the University of Florida in 1994. A tenured professor at UTA since 1996, she is currently serving as the Interim Chair for the UTA history department. Her areas of studyinclude U.S. Social History, Women's History, Race & Gender from a Regional perspective.