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Associate professor of history Katherine Sharp Landdeck, PhD, was a speaker on several panels for the U.S. Air Force Academy National Character and Leadership Symposium in February. She was also a guest speaker for the academy's freshmen and upper-level history classes.

草莓传媒官网下载 to present virtual forum on legacy, roots of Capitol violence

Texas Woman鈥檚 University will host its first virtual Public Affairs Forum, 鈥淐apitol Violence: Tracing Legacies of Anti-Black Racism, White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism,鈥 on Zoom 6-7:30 p.m., March 4. The event is free and open to the public. Participants must and are encouraged to submit questions for the panelists through the registration form. 

Jamison Lecture to feature Melba Patillo Beals of Little Rock Nine

Melba Patillo Beals, Ed.D., journalist, author and member of the Little Rock Nine 鈥 the first group of African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 鈥 will speak at Texas Woman鈥檚 University鈥檚 sixth annual Jamison Lecture, part of the Nancy P. and Thaddeus E. Paup Lecture Series. The lecture, titled 鈥淲arriors Don鈥檛 Cry,鈥 will take place online via live stream beginning at 7 p.m., March 18.

For more than 25 years, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, PhD, has been completely enamored with the story of the female pilots of World War II. Landdeck, a pilot herself and a professor of history at Texas Woman鈥檚 University, has written a book that tells the personal stories of 鈥淭he Women With Silver Wings.鈥 A Texas Standard radio segment featuring Landdeck and her book aired earlier this month on NPR affiliate stations across the state.

Associate professor of history Katherine Sharp Landdeck, PhD, provided her expertise on the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of WWII on a recent episode of the "Stuff You Missed in History Class" podcast. She spoke about her new book as well as Jacqueline Cochran, who was an incredible pilot, and one of the driving forces behind the WASPs.