Harvard University
Josiah Cox Russell
Collection of publications by Dr. Josiah Cox Russell, a professor of history at Texas A&I University in the 1970s. In 1971 Dr. Russell had been awarded the Prestigious Piper Professor Award from the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. His work was primarily on medieval demography.
Olan E. Kruse Collection
Olan E. Kruse came to Texas College of Arts in Industries as an undergraduate and received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1942. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he earned advanced degrees in Physics, taught at Stephen F. Austin College and ultimately returned to Texas A&I as chairman of the Physics Department where he supervised the design and construction of Hill Hall, the Physics Building, served as chairman of the ad hoc committee which established the Faculty Senate and was the founding president of the campus Faculty Senate.
Candace Jefferson Collection
Candace Jefferson was born and raised in Kingsville, Texas in the last half of the 20th century. Her father was a union representative for the Colored Trainmen of American in Kingsville when the railroad was young in South Texas. Candace Jefferson first worked in Houston in the Health Care field, later she worked for Condaleeza Rice and met Colin Powell at the State Department of the United States. Jefferson traveled and worked in Egypt and Israel. This collection of papers, documents, and photographs tell the rich story of her experiences.