Scope and Contents

This collections contains workshop notes, prints of ballots, and periodicals documenting President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 election campaigns and inaugurations.

Scope and Contents

A single copybook containing letters from several government and military leaders, addressed to and transcribed by Charles H. Tompkins.

Scope and Contents

This collection explores the history of the prohibition movement in the United States. There are several sermons that present rural Protestant views on the consumption of alcohol. The collection also contains prohibition broadsides dealing with elections in Falls and Milam Counties in 1907.

Scope and Contents National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established in 1958 by then president Dwight D.Eisenhower. The government agency has been responsible for many manned and unmanned missions,such as launching the first American satellites into Earth orbit and sending probes to explore other planetswithin our solar system. NASA has also focused on learning about Ozone depletion in 1975. The Collection of NASA Materials found its way to Sam Houston State University Special Collections intwo...

Scope and Contents

The Congressional Memorial Address Collection contains bound programs and transcripts of memorial services given to the United States Senate and House of Representatives in honor of deceased political figures.

Scope and Contents

This single item collection contains a manuscript written by Daniel Warren Reep during his time attending Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. This manuscript details Reep’s experience coming of age and serving as a Marine during World War II. This manuscript was donated by Glenn Payne.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a manuscript left behind by Major General George W. Morgan detailing his military service.

Scope and Contents

The Historic Documents and Prints Collection consists of various prints depicting American and Napoleonic wars and reproduction documents related to the Battle of San Jacinto.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials donated by Cathy Holm. Materials include newspapers and periodicals covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as well as local newspapers from the 1990s.

Scope and Contents The materials that make up this collection represent the life and work of James Van Benschoten Bennett. More specifically, the materials portray his role as the second Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and as a prolific prison reformer. The most popular theme represented in the collection is prison policy and reform – which is often discussed in articles and speeches composed by Bennett. The collection also contains numerous correspondence and case histories of prison inmates. Pictorial...