History at PVAMU

01/14/2021

https://www.pvamu.edu/blog/lumina-foundation-awards-500000-grant-to-pvamus-ruth-j-simmons-center-for-race-and-justice/

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has landed a half-million-dollar grant from Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for its newly-established Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. Lumina is an independent, private foundation committed to making opportunities for

05/24/2020

History repeats itself.

A picture taken during the 1918 flu pandemic shows football fans wearing masks at a Georgia Tech game in Atlanta.

02/06/2020

If you learn only one thing in history, learn to take things in stride:

Medieval manuscripts were the imageboards of their day, full of murderous illustrations, however for some strange reason many people look as if they were bored with life anyway and their killer did them a service all while enjoying it himself.

01/18/2020

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/01/17/breaking-news/navy-to-name-aircraft-carrier-for-pearl-harbor-hero-doris-miller/

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, at Pearl Harbor, the Navy is expected to announce that a $12.5 billion aircraft carrier will be named after Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller, the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor for his actions on Dec. 7, 1941, when he manned a m...

01/14/2020

Gift your favorite history professor a red pen... it's a 4,000 year old tradition! 😁

01/09/2020

Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly the opposite.

12/16/2019

  FROM THE ARCHIVES The world’s earliest known illustrated copy of the Gospels, the Garima Gospels, has been saved for centuries in a remote Ethiopian monastery. The astonishingly beautiful Ga…