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Take advantage, study abroad

The Wichitan November 28, 2017

Our view: Our generation is offered many opportunities our predecessors weren’t, and one of them is the chance to study abroad. While not everyone dreams of traveling the world, it something that as...

Downtown museum helps residents rediscover history

Downtown museum helps residents rediscover history

Dakota Mize March 1, 2017

With cowboy hats, vintage instruments and Vietnam War artifacts, the history of Wichita Falls can be rediscovered through the exhibits at the Museum of North Texas History. “We’ve got a lot...

MSU celebrates desegregation

The Wichitan February 22, 2017

OUR VIEW: Though MSU may not have been on the right side of history, we are now.Last week, a postmaster was sent out to announce the unveiling of a historical marker celebrating MSU's desegregation. Formerly...

Cortny Bates, special collections librarian/associate university librarian, and Clara Latham, university librarian, demonstrates to Peter Fields, english associate professor, and Keith Lamb, vice president of student affairs and enrollment management, how the new MSU History Display in the second floor of Moffett Library, Feb. 9. Photo by Rachel Johnson

History of MSU digitized

Emily Carroll February 9, 2016

Associate University Librarian for Technical Services Cortny Bates unveiled the digital display of MSU history on the second floor of Moffett Library on Tuesday Feb. 9. She presented a new touch-screen...

Many Beginnings: A History of Women in Sports at Midwestern State University by Sherry Anne Gill Gillespie and Karen K. Rogers

Womens sports focus of new book

Yolanda Torres August 11, 2015

REVIEW Many Beginnings: A History of Women in Sports at Midwestern State University by Sherry Ann Gill Gillespie with Karen K. Rogers explores the account of women’s athletics since the start...

Speaker to offer new perspective on American history

Chris Marten March 23, 2015

The spring Speakers and Issues Series will begin with a talk by Edward Countryman, history professor at Southern Methodist University, on March 24. Countryman will discuss his book, “Enjoy the Same Liberty:...

History professor, 79, dies of pancreatic cancer

Ethan Metcalf September 16, 2014
James R. King, associate professor of history, passed away after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 79.

Students discuss history of Halloween

Edward Grisham October 28, 2013

The History of Halloween from MWSU Campus Watch on Vimeo. Americans spend $6 billion during Halloween, second only to Christmas. It is a time for trick-or-treating, monsters, and according to Jeremy...

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