
Methods of Historical Research is a senior seminar course required of every History major at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Students spend the semester learning about the historian’s craft by doing it themselves. Spring 2020, Dr. Philis Barragán Goetz taught a section of Methods in collaboration with the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM). Students researched topics related to Black history in Bexar County, focusing on the social, cultural, and political dimensions of African Americans’ experiences. These projects help fill a gap in our understanding of San Antonio history in the colonial era, the Gilded Age and Progressive era, and the post-WWII era.
The Methods of Historical Research class was established with the assistance of SAAACAM founder Everett Fly. Mr. Fly was also a class advisor. This research will assist SAAACAM in the creation of exhibits and be included in the SAAACAM archives. We hope you enjoy reading them.
Cantu, Jarred John, "Albert Harold Banks" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 7. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/7
De Hoyos, Karina, "The Life of a Former Slave in Bexar County" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 10. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/10
Godoy, Isaac L., "Progressive Era Activism for Black Orphanage" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 6. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/6
Gonzales, Joe G., "John “Mule” Miles" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 8. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/8
González Villarreal, Diana, "The Afro-Latino Presence in Late Colonial Spanish San Antonio" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 5. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/5
Gutierrez, Mario M., "G. William Bouldin, More Than a Businessman" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 11. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/11
Gutierrez, Patricia M., "The History of the Cameo Theater" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 12. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/12
Gutierrez, Robert M., "Protest for Douglass School" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 13. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/13
Harris, David R., "The Unheard Stories of Former San Antonio Slaves" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 3. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/3
LeJeune, Jordan, "The Impact of Marriage on African American Educators in Bexar County, 1880-1950" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 9. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/9
Miller, Robert Grey, "Homer L. Rodgers: The Commerce Street Tailor" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 14. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/14
Nolden, Eric D., "Founding of NAACP in San Antonio 1918: A Call to Activism" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 4. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/4
Oliver, Christopher D., "Research on the Demographic Changes Around San Antonio's St. Paul Square from 1880 to 1920" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 2. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/2
Tovar, Arnulfo, "San Antonio's Redlining and Segregation" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 1. https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/1