The Digital PV Panther Project

04/05/2026

Date: Friday, April 10th, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM
Corner of Penick and Old Washington
Across the street from the Waller Feed Store, Waller, Texas

12/12/2025

7 time RISE grant award winner and research assistant Evelyn Todd graduates this evening with her MBA from PVAMU. She has worked for the Digital PV Panther Project since returning to “The Hill” to attend graduate school, and she has worked on numerous historic preservation projects over the past few years. In fact, she recently published several blog posts on her internship at the Texas Historical Commission, her trip to Africa, and her extensive collaborative archival preservation projects, the Texas Black Cooperative Extension & Home Demonstration Collection. Join me in congratulating Evelyn on all her accomplishments on this day of graduate commencement at PVAMU!

12/12/2025

From 2021-2024, PVAMU students processed over 100 linear feet of documents and created 63 finding aids for the Texas Black Cooperative Extension & Home Demonstration Collection, which constitutes one of the most significant bodies of documentation for understanding Black rural life in the American South during the twentieth century.

From 2021-2024, PVAMU students processed over 100 linear feet of documents and created 63 finding aids for the Texas Black Cooperative Extension & Home Demonstration Collection, which constitu…

12/12/2025

RISE Graduate Research Assistant Evelyn Todd and PVAMU Assistant Professor History T. DeWayne Moore curated this timeline contextualizing Black land loss and the Texas Black Cooperative Extension & Home Demonstration Collection, a massive collection that spans the years 1923-1963.

RISE Graduate Research Assistant Evelyn Todd and PVAMU Assistant Professor History T. DeWayne Moore curated this timeline contextualizing Black land loss and the Texas Black Cooperative Extension &…

10/31/2025

Join us this Saturday, November 1, at 2 PM CST, for an enlightening lecture by Dr. Jodi Skipper on the profound impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This event will take place at Genesis Church in Columbus, MS. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of history and its echoes in today’s world!

https://mtzionmemorialfund.com/2025/10/mzmf-freedom-schools/

10/31/2025

On Saturday, November 1, at 2pm CST, Dr. Jodi Skipper will deliver her lecture on the Transatlantic Slave Trade at Genesis Church in Columbus, MS.

FREE to the public - Please visit our website for the full schedule...
https://mtzionmemorialfund.com/2025/10/mzmf-freedom-schools/

09/30/2025

The Association for Gravestone Studies Board of Trustees is requesting your help. The AGS website has served us well, but it needs some updates to better support you, our members and friends. The Board of Trustees wants to ensure that the refreshed website provides relevant and useful content for those interested in the study and preservation of gravestones and cemeteries.

We have created the following questionnaire to learn more about you and what you would like from the AGS website. You may remain completely anonymous or provide us with follow-up contact information - that's up to you. Helpful tip - simply put in your favorite cemetery's address for your location to remain anonymous. Rest assured, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Click here to access the survey

https://arcg.is/1rePHf3

Thank you for your assistance as we begin this project to reposition AGS at the forefront of gravestone and cemetery study and preservation.

08/21/2025

I’m so proud of my wife, Sokheng Moore, for winning the most outstanding staff member award in the College of Arts & Sciences at for 2025!

08/21/2025

I was so honored to speak about the geophysical research conducted at Wyatt Chapel Community Cemetery on the campus of . I look forward to working with the president and her staff to complete the project.

08/18/2025

Frank Edd White's 1936 thesis contains the only interview ever conducted with Elizabeth Burney, a formerly enslaved woman who lived at Alta Vista, the slave labor plantation of Jared Ellison Kirby. His homeplace later became Prairie View A&M University. The interview begins on page 78.

Frank Edd White’s 1936 thesis contains the only interview ever conducted with Elizabeth Burney, a formerly enslaved woman who lived at Alta Vista, the slave labor plantation of Jared Ellison …

08/18/2025

Frank Edd White's 1936 thesis contains the only interview ever conducted with Elizabeth Burney, a formerly enslaved woman who lived at Alta Vista, the slave labor plantation of Jared Ellison Kirby. His homeplace later became Prairie View A&M University. The interview begins on page 78.

Frank Edd White’s 1936 thesis contains the only interview ever conducted with Elizabeth Burney, a formerly enslaved woman who lived at Alta Vista, the slave labor plantation of Jared Ellison …