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1. A Brief History of Mass Shootings By Maria Esther Hammack
2. Ladies First By Keisha Laneé Brown


3. The Cost of Student Living Race, Finances, and Politics at UT Austin in the 1960s By Miguel Daza
4. The Specter of the Tower By John Lisle


5. Policing Before and After August 1, 1966 By Justin Krueger
6. Armed Civilians and the UT Tower Tragedy By Isaac McQuistion


7. Texas Gun Culture and the UT Tower Shooting By Isaac McQuistion
8. The Little Metal Bottle Substance Abuse in the Tower Disaster By Rebecca Johnston


9. The University Response A Product of the Times By Justina Moloney
10. “The Eyes of the World Are Upon You, Texas” How the Austin Newspapers Covered the UT Tower Shooting By Alejandra Garza


11. A Fitting Memorial The Mental Health Legacy of the Whitman Murders By Rebecca Johnston
12. I Choose to Remember;
I Need to Forget
Memorialization and Healing from a Moment of Violence on a University Campus By Itza Carbajal



13. Aftermath Remembering and Forgetting the UT Tower Shooting By Victoria Hurley
14. Charles Joseph Whitman (1941-1966) By Joan Neuberger


15. Update July-August, 2016
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Behind the Tower is a project of The Public History Seminar at UT Austin and was initially published the summer of 2016.

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