Center acquires major quilt history collection
The Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, an outstanding collection of historically significant quits and quilt history...
View ArticleCronkite's Texas: A Q&A with Walter Cronkite
After you graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston in May 1933, you decided to enroll at the university. Why UT? Well, I could have gone to college back in Missouri. My grandfather had a...
View ArticleCronkite's Texas
The Alcalde Dr. Don Carleton is executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. He is the author of Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience; Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas...
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Don Carleton, of the Briscoe Center for American History, reveals how the stories of our past make up who we are today. The Briscoe Center is a leading history research center that collects, preserves...
View ArticleNews to History Offers Window into U.S. Presidency
Showcasing the unparalleled photographic collections at the Briscoe Center for American History, a new exhibit called News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency highlights 13 presidential...
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