PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 16, 2022) - The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, has chosen Prairie View A&M University junior Delicia Drain as one of its 2022-2023 Student Ambassadors. The program recruited 14 Student Ambassadors, representing 11 colleges and universities across the country. As one of the faces of the [...]
Earlier this year, Prairie View A&M University was selected as one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, an initiative aimed at preserving and amplifying the invaluable visual history of HBCUs. This week, representatives from Getty Images were on “The Hill” to help start the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 13, 2022) – This summer, PVAMU Distance Services Librarian Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D., is participating in the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program.
Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 13, 2022) - This summer, PVAMU Distance Services Librarian Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D., is participating in the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program. ARL, which has been around since 1932, is a small group of top research universities in the U.S. and [...]
As a child, Becky Vanderslice often visited family near Prairie View, where her relatives had lived for generations. One day while playing, she and her cousin came upon a ledger listing names, ages, skin colors and dollar amounts. The document was part of her family’s seldom-discussed history. Her relative, Col. Jared Kirby had owned the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 24, 2022) – Her experience as an undergraduate student worker in the Blagg-Huey Library at Texas Woman's University created a plot twist for Kimberly Gay: Could she be a librarian? It turns out she had found a calling. Kimberly Gay More than 20 years later, Gay, who is head [...]
Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. President Jimmy Carter proclaimed National Women's History Week in 1980, and in 1987, Congress passed Public Law 100-9, proclaiming March as Women's History Month. Below and in the attached tabs are over 100 books [...]
The power of literature is in the reading about the history of Black lives and enjoying stories and poems written by Black authors. This collection of authors covers a range of genres, fiction and non-fiction.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 25, 2022) – Prairie View A&M University today announced it is one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), an initiative aimed at preserving and amplifying the invaluable visual history of HBCUs. Funding from the grant will help support [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 2, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University is set to receive a boost that will make more historical documents available to researchers, students and the public. A team consisting of University Archivist Phyllis Earles, Special Collections Librarian Lisa Stafford and History Professor DeWayne Moore, Ph.D., has been awarded two highly competitive [...]
