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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
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Update July-August, 2016