Quakertown Stories is an interdisciplinary and experiential learning initiative that aims to integrate the history of Quakertown into courses at Texas Woman's University. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the NEH Humanities Connections Grant to Quakertown Stories to support a Faculty Fellows program and public programming, including a Panel Discussion with scholars, historians, and archivists, and a student led Town Hall to share student projects and reflections with community members and stakeholders.

Stories like those of Quakertown are especially critical in this unique moment when the country and the world are steeped in significant conversations about past racial injustices that continue to influence the present. Support from the NEH Humanities Connections Grant will increase the visibility of Quakertown’s history and its important lessons for today.

Image: Postcard contains a photograph of the Old Main Building at Girls' College of Industrial Arts, now known as Texas Woman's University, in Denton, Texas. Image courtesy of The Portal to Texas History. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.

Student Research

Students, with guidance from faculty fellows, will document, interpret, and contextualize the events that took place in and around TWU’s campus one hundred years ago and connect them to our current social climate. In public panel discussions and student-led townhall forums, the university and larger Denton communities and policymakers will engage in dialogue about the history of Quakertown and pathways for addressing its impact on community members today.

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