Today UTEP President Diana Natalicio recognized Keith Erekson with the UTEP Star Award in recognition for his service to the university and community in directing TEKSWatch. The international impact of the project is a direct result the collective concern and volunteer work of Kelley Akins, Michelle Delgado, Cecilia De Jesus, Sandra Enriquez, Aaron Margolis, Leo Negrete, Lupe Saldana, Yvette Valdez, Victoria Alicia García and Christina Belio.
The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association has published Erekson’s “Telling the Story of ‘The Ages’.” The essay reviews the literature on the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The JALA is the only journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship and is the official journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
The Indiana Magazine of History celebrated the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with a special issue on Lincoln and Indiana guest edited by Keith Erekson. Articles in the issue explore the state’s efforts to preserve its Lincoln collections, the history of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, statues of Lincoln in Indiana, and the life of Lincoln biographer Jesse Weik. Erekson’s introductory essay examines the 2009 bicentennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth and reviews commemoration of Lincoln in Indiana over the twentieth century.
In Everybody’s History, Erekson encourages teachers to take their students into the archives. “After countless hours of painstaking research through photos, libraries, archives, and oral histories,” his students donated their research papers to the El Paso Museum of History. [Read the full press release (written by the students)] They researched and wrote about local neighborhoods, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration.
