St. Mary's University Research Guide

Thanks to grant funding, the Diamondback, St. Mary's University yearbook, has been digitized and is available through the Portal to Texas History. Years available are 1932-1989, with some years missing. The Diamondback was not published regularly between 1944-1954 and 1965-1968.

Students of the St. Mary’s Public History program have been collecting and recording the experiences of the St. Mary's community during COVID-19 that are now part of the online archive Journal of the Plague Year. #CoverYourFangs

The Modcasters are graduate students at St. Mary’s University on a mission to discuss literature, provide access to the those on the deafness and/or blindness spectrum, and rock mustachios.

The Old Spanish Trail (OST) Association (circa 1915-1933) was a group of community leaders from towns and cities along the Old Spanish Trail automobile route that stretched from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, California by way of San Antonio, Texas. The Association formed to promote the development of a motorable highway throughout the South as a spur to local development. The archives of the Association include reports and memoranda, membership books, minutes, correspondence, clippings, brochures, and books published by the Association in pursuit of its objective to facilitate tourism in their locales. Dr. Lindsey Passenger Wieck, Director of Graduate Public History, and librarian Jill Crane, worked with undergraduate and graduate students to digitize this archive in 2019-2020. Wieck, Crane, and Samantha (Shine) Trabucco created the digitization and metadata workflow. Glory Turnbull, Christopher Hohman, and Danielle Slaughter digitized the materials and completed the bulk of the metadata. Antonio Coffee, Harold Johnson, Oscar Ortega, Gerardo Nino Pozos, Bianca-Rhae Jacquez, Claudia Sanchez, and others contributed to the metadata for this project. We are grateful to the Council of Independent Colleges and the generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as the catalyst of this project. Thank you also to St. Mary's University, Humanities Texas, a Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans grant, and the St. Mary's Blume Library, SPARC, and Information Services for their support of this project. Image: OST Poster by Cletus Behlmann.

"The Pecan Grove Review gives students the opportunity to understand and obtain realistic publishing experience. In 1993, Sister Ann Semel, then-chair of the English and Communication Studies Department, asked faculty member Diane Gonzales Bertrand – now visiting lecturer and writer-in-residence at St. Mary’s – to start a literary magazine. The Pecan Grove Review’s first staff members were students from Bertrand’s 'Intro to the Creative Process' class, and she became its first faculty adviser. The Department of English Literature and Language resides within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at St. Mary’s." Volumes 1 (1996)-20 (2021) are available in the Digital Commons at St. Mary's University and on the university's Omeka server. Volume 1 (1996)-Volume 20 (2021) are available in the Blume Library print Periodicals Collection.

St. Mary's University student publication.

The site brings together stories collected by St. Mary's University students about the history of campus spaces and how our faculty, staff, and students have experienced these sites. These stories with images, oral histories, and other primary stories showcase the history of St. Mary’s. The site "is powered by Omeka + Curatescape, a humanities-centered web and mobile framework available for both Android and iOS devices."

"The mission of the StMU Education Foundry is to provide a forum for students and graduates of the St. Mary’s University Education Department where one can share research on critical issues in education, lessons and classroom management techniques that one has found to be particularly effective."

The StMU Public History Project Showcase site features student and faculty projects.

"The StMU Scholars Project is a collaboration project of faculty and students at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The project gives students at St. Mary’s University a real-world experience working to research, write, and publish scholarship in academic disciplines across the university. The StMU Scholars website gives students both the experience of working in a real-world publishing environment as well as the public platform to showcase their scholarship. The products of the website reflect the disciplinary and vocational products frequently found in real-world problem-solving scenarios. The forerunner of the StMU Scholars organization began in August 2016 as part of a single History course, originally called “StMU History Media.” It has since expanded to include numerous disciplines within the project. The current name now reflects that expanded project. As of Spring 2021, the project has published over 1000 articles written by over 600 St. Mary’s University scholars." The StMU Research Scholars projects guide supports our scholars.