Growing up in Beaumont, TX, Amilcar Shabazz, professor of Afro-American studies, celebrated Independence Day on June 19—Juneteenth. ...

A new book by Zhongwei Shen, professor in the East Asian Languages and Cultures program (part of the languages, literatures and cultures department), is the first to integrate Chinese linguistic scholarship into international linguistics at large.

Grounded Knowledge explores connections between the Renaissance Center’s kitchen gardens, apple orchard, and rare book collection, which includes agricultural treatises, gardening manuals, early modern literature, and early earth science writing.