The Backlog of Baylor Blogs
So much press over the years through my alma mater, Baylor. Here is a grouping of past articles related to my books, partners, and engagement with the Baylor community.
Baylor Art Student Brings a Poem to Life
These two blogs are interviews with my illustrator, Grace Elizabeth Daniel, from 2017.
On Dec. 29, 2017, the final piece of a three-department collaboration (art, history and English) was put into place: Baylor senior art student Grace Elizabeth Daniel handed off her draft illustrations to UPS. December 31 was the deadline for Grace to earn a bonus for completing her first professional assignment, the illustration of a short poem I authored. The poem, “A Ph.D.’s Reverie,” tells the story of my grandfather, the late Frank Guittard, who migrated from Ohio to Texas in 1886 and taught history at Baylor from 1902 to 1950.
https://blogs.baylor.edu/artsandsciences/2018/08/14/gracedaniel1/
https://blogs.baylor.edu/artsandsciences/2018/08/14/gracedaniel2/
New book draws on letters to shed light on a legendary Baylor history professor
After Reverie's launch, I told my story to the editor, Tommy DeShong.
Charles Guittard, a 1964 Baylor Arts & Sciences graduate, is the grandson of legendary Baylor history chair and professor Dr. Frank Guittard (1867-1950). Charles Guittard has written two books featuring his grandfather — the latest being “A Ph.D.’s Reverie: The Letters,” published in August 2019. The book features Guittard family letters written in the 1920s between Frank Guittard and his family back in Waco while he was on sabbatical to Stanford University to obtain a doctorate in history. Frank Guittard taught at Baylor from 1902 until his death in 1950. In this interview, we talk to Charles Guittard about this book and what it reveals about his grandfather and his place in Baylor history.
https://blogs.baylor.edu/artsandsciences/2019/11/11/guittard-2/
Recent Baylor art graduate Amanda Hope Smith illustrates a new biography about founding BU history chair Dr. Frank Guittard
An interview with Amanda Hope Smith, illustrator for I Will Teach History: The Life & Time of Frank Guittard.
Amanda Hope Smith graduated from Baylor University in 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art. While still a student, she was hired to create 15 illustrations for the new biography I Will Teach History: The Life & Times of Frank Guittard, written by the subject’s grandson, Charles Francis Guittard, a 1964 Baylor Arts & Sciences graduate. It was her first professional art assignment.
https://blogs.baylor.edu/artsandsciences/2022/09/21/amanda-hope-smith/
Baylor Arts & Sciences alumnus Charles Guittard authors a new memoir of his school days
This Baylor interview discusses my latest book, Scribblings from Storage: The Confessions of an English Major.
Scribblings from Storage is the latest work by Charles Francis Guittard, a 1964 Baylor Arts & Sciences graduate. Through letters to his family and friends, the book provides a record of the author’s extended adolescent angst as well as memories of growing up and maturation. It includes the last years of high school through his years at Baylor as an English major, his years obtaining a law degree, and a few more in which he said he sought to obtain his footing –– personally, socially and professionally.
A new biography of Dr. Frank Guittard illuminates the early days of Baylor University in Waco and the birth of its history department
My interview with Baylor on the publishing of I Will Teach History in 2022.
I Will Teach History: The Life & Times of Francis Gevrier Guittard, Professor, Baylor University, is the life story of the founding chair of the Department of History at Baylor, who served in that role from 1910 to 1948. The book is the final volume of a trilogy written by Dr. Frank Guittard’s grandson, Charles Francis Guittard, a 1964 Baylor Arts & Sciences graduate. I Will Teach History has just been published and reached the No. 1 position on Amazon’s “New Releases in Historical Study & Teaching” list.
https://blogs.baylor.edu/artsandsciences/2022/09/21/frank-guittard/
2022 Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship Winner Announced
The winner of the 2022 Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship is Daniel J. Watkins, Assistant Professor of History at Baylor. Watkins’ book, Berruyer’s Bible: Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightenment Catholicism in France (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021).