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Jacqueline Jones

Illustration of a women yelling with a raised fist against a bright red background. In her shirt, there is a pattern of various women with their fists raised.

Fight Like a Girl:  How Women’s Activism Shapes History

July 3, 2018 by Rachel White

Alice Embree doesn’t know what came over her the first time she stood up against injustice. She just knew it was the right thing to do. Along with her friends Karen and Glodine and the rest of the Austin High School drill squad, Embree had just sat down to order at a restaurant in Corpus […]

Jacqueline Jones.

Pulitizer Finalist Tells Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People

December 9, 2014 by Emily Nielsen

The Pulitzer Prize nominating jury has named Jacqueline Jones, chair of the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist in history for her book, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America. The nomination surprised Jones, who didn’t know her publisher […]

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