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Today is Founders Day<\/a>, celebrating the day Baylor was chartered by the Republic of Texas back in 1845<\/a>. In other words, it’s Baylor’s birthday — a good time to look back at how we’ve arrived where we are today.<\/p>\n The good news is, if you’re a history nut,\u00a0there are plenty of resources out there for brushing up on Baylor’s history. Here are five to get you started:<\/p>\n * The About Baylor<\/a> section of Baylor’s website<\/strong> includes biographies of each Baylor\u00a0president<\/a> and Judge R.E.B. Baylor<\/a>, a detailed historical timeline<\/a> of notable events in university history, and a cool then-and-now photo feature<\/a> of some notable campus locations.<\/p>\n * The Texas Collection<\/a><\/strong> holds Baylor’s official archives as part of the largest Texana collection at any private university. Even if you can’t make it to campus to access their archives, The Texas Collection’s\u00a0blog<\/a> and\u00a0Flickr account<\/a> regularly share a wealth of Baylor history (including the circa 1910 postcard<\/a>\u00a0pictured above).<\/p>\n *\u00a0The Baylor Libraries Digital Collections<\/a><\/strong> have, in recent years, made huge amounts of the university’s history available online. That includes virtually every issue of The Baylor Lariat<\/em><\/a> from 1900-2015, nearly every Round Up<\/em> yearbook<\/a> since 1902, press releases<\/a>, athletic archives<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n *<\/strong>\u00a0Looking for even more reading? Check out the 7 books that should be on every Baylor Bear’s shelf<\/a><\/strong>, then browse through more of BaylorProud’s history archives<\/a><\/strong>. (Some favorites: profiles of notable Bears like Pat Neff<\/a>, Leon Jaworski<\/a> and Ann Richards<\/a>;\u00a0short histories of campus landmarks such as Carroll Science<\/a>,\u00a0Waco Hall<\/a>, the Judge Baylor statue<\/a> and the Pat Neff bells<\/a>; and even how the legendary Sam Houston came to be connected to Baylor<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Happy Founders Day!<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n [A bonus sixth resource: The Institute of Oral History’s<\/a> archive of 600+ Baylor-related interviews<\/a><\/strong>, including such notables as Abner McCall<\/a>,\u00a0Vivienne Malone-Mayes<\/a>, Ann Miller<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Packard<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is Founders Day, celebrating the day Baylor was chartered by the Republic of Texas back in 1845. In other words, it’s Baylor’s birthday — a good time to look back at how we’ve arrived where we are today. The good news is, if you’re a history nut,\u00a0there are plenty of resources out there for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}