AT A GLANCE
Briscoe Center Announces Launch of Jack Brooks Digital Legacy Project
The project website explores the life and public service of Congressman Jack Brooks through a digital repository of newly digitized primary source materials from the Jack Brooks Papers, part of the Briscoe Center’s collections.
Briscoe Center Acquires Christopher Little Photographic Archive
The Briscoe Center is pleased to announce the donation of the Christopher Little Photographic Archive, an important addition to the center’s internationally significant photojournalism collections.
The Eyes of Texas History Committee
In October 2020, President Jay Hartzell created the Eyes of Texas History Committee to chronicle the full history of the university’s alma mater, “The Eyes of Texas.” The digitized materials from our collections that were provided to the Eyes of Texas History Committee are available through the center’s digital collections.
New Acquisitions: The Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive
Through January 28, 2022 Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas Weatherby Gallery
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire
August 30, 2021 – January 28, 2022 Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas Main Gallery
Voice Lessons
By Alice Embree Alice Embree, a nationally known writer and activist for social justice, tells how history was made in Texas.
With the Bark Off: A Journalist’s Memories of LBJ and a Life in the News Media
By Neal Spelce with Thomas Zigal Austin journalist Neal Spelce’s years working with LBJ were once-in-a-lifetime experiences, but only part of his award-winning media career.
The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby
By Don Carleton This dual biography chronicles the lives of Will and Oveta Hobby; their impact on local, state, and national events; and how their marriage and media empire helped shape twentieth-century journalistic and political history.
Astronaut Karen Nyberg joins the American Rhapsody podcast
It might surprise you that the Briscoe Center’s collections are not only global in their reach—they are, literally, astronomical. In this episode, we will explore outer space through the art of quilts.
New Podcast Episode with Alice Embree and Julia Mickenberg
First drawn into the fight against racial segregation in the 1960s, Alice Embree embarked on a lifelong journey of social activism involving a wide array of grassroots political, economic, social, and cultural causes.
