Your Ticket to the Forty Acres

Your Ticket to the Forty Acres
Author: Kevin Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781521850619

Stressing about your University of Texas at Austin undergraduate application? Ease your worries and increase your chances of gaining admission to your dream school with these winning tips and strategies from former UT Admissions Counselor Kevin Robert Martin. A Fulbright Fellow who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UT-Austin, Kevin has reviewed and scored thousands of applications. Use his inside perspective to maximize your admissions chances not just at UT but at selective universities nationwide. Put yourself in your reviewer's shoes to better understand this complicated and uncertain process. Kevin shares entertaining stories from visiting hundreds of schools and working with thousands of students. His comprehensive guide tells readers everything he wishes he could have said when he worked for UT-Austin. Learn exactly how UT reviews students for their first-choice major using the Academic and Personal Achievement Index. Dispel dozens of myths and misconceptions and understand what really counts. Craft compelling Apply Texas essays and build an effective expanded resume by referencing real student applications. Explore a data-driven look at how race in admissions, the Abigail Fisher Supreme Court Case, and how the top 7 percent law influences decisions. Examine more than twenty charts visualizing seven years of applicant and admitted student data for popular majors like the McCombs School of Business, the Cockrell School of Engineering, the Moody College of Communications, and Computer Science. Elevate your application for Business, Plan II, and College of Natural Sciences Honors Programs. Find success in the transfer admissions process.

The South

The South
Author: John Townsend Trowbridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1866
Genre: Reconstruction
ISBN:

I've Been Here All the While

I've Been Here All the While
Author: Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812297989

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

The Alcalde

The Alcalde
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2006-03
Genre:
ISBN:

As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

The South

The South
Author: John Townsend Trowbridge
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780865549692

After the American Civil War, few southerners were able to publish books describing their defeated region. And journalists from outside the South were equally fatigued and quite ready to return to familiar surroundings; the thought of visiting and reporting on the war torn South was not a priority. Fortunately, an author from New England, John Townsend Trowbridge(1827-"1916) was persuaded to undertake the daunting mission of traveling through the unreconstructed South and to compile a journal of his adventures. The results of this intrepid reporter's long forgotten journey was a sizeable volume that may well be one of our greatest national

Forty Acres

Forty Acres
Author: Dwayne Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476730539

"A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--