In Memoriam: Judge John Singleton On November 21, 1963, John F. Kennedy was boarding Air Force One in Houston, en route to Dallas for the last leg of his fateful Texas tour. Before he boarded, he turned and thanked the man who had been tasked by Vice President Lyndon B.… read more
Statesman and Governor Bill Richardson Donates Papers to UT Austin’s Briscoe Center
Statesman and Governor Bill Richardson Donates Papers to UT Austin’s Briscoe Center AUSTIN, Texas — Bill Richardson, a former congressman, ambassador, Cabinet secretary and New Mexico governor, has donated his professional and political papers to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. Richardson,… read more
Sounds Like Texas Music Exhibit Now Open On Campus
Sounds Like Texas Music Exhibit Now Open On Campus Location: Briscoe Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin 2300 Red River St. Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 2 Austin, Texas 78712-1426 Exhibit Hours: Monday through Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (check… read more
FDR to JFK: Presidential Photographs from the Briscoe Center Exhibit opens at Sam Rayburn Museum
Media Advisory: New Presidential Photography Exhibit at the Sam Rayburn Museum From FDR to JFK: Presidential Photographs from the Briscoe Center March 11, 2015 to July 18, 2015 Sam Rayburn Museum, Bonham, Texas Bonham, Texas—The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin proudly… read more
March to Freedom Exhibit Opens at LBJ Presidential Library
March to Freedom Location: LBJ Presidential Library 2313 Red River St. Austin, TX 78705 [Map] Exhibit Hours: February 21 – April 12, 2015 9:00am – 5:00pm [LBJ Visitor Info] In honor of Black History Month, a new photographic exhibit by UT Austin’s Briscoe Center and the LBJ Presidential Library… read more
Seeing Double Quilt Exhibit at Winedale
Media Advisory: Seeing Double Quilt Exhibit at Winedale The Winedale Historical Complex, a division of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, proudly presents Seeing Double: Paired Versions of Popular Quilt Patterns. Seeing Double, drawn from the richness of the Winedale Quilt Collection, featuring… read more
Briscoe Center Acquires the Weatherby Map Collection
The Briscoe Center has acquired the Dr. T. Karman Weatherby Map Collection. Composed of hundreds of historic maps, the collection documents battles, cities, frontier territories, nations and continents across a number of centuries. Furthermore, the Weatherby family has made a significant gift to the center that will enable a gallery… read more
In Memoriam: Ian Mclagan
In Memoriam: Ian McLagan (L-R) Ian McLagan, Ronnie Wood, and Rod Stewart, Tom Wright Photograph Collection The Briscoe Center is saddened by news of the death of Ian McLagan at age 69. McLagan was best known for playing keyboards for The Small Faces (later The Faces)—part of the first wave… read more
The Briscoe Center has acquired the archives of StudioEIS, an internationally renowned sculpture-design studio.
Briscoe Center Acquires the StudioEIS Archive Adds to the center’s newest collection strength: symbols, imagery, and memorialization Brothers Elliot (left) and Ivan Schwartz at the StudioEIS design studio. The Briscoe Center has acquired the archives of StudioEIS, an internationally renowned sculpture-design studio. The archive documents the work of Elliot and… read more
The Briscoe Center has launched a special digital edition of Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience by former chairman of the UT System Board of Regents Bernard Rapoport.
Briscoe Center Launches Interactive Memoir E-book uses digital archives to enrich the story of Bernard Rapoport Rapoport’s memoir, originally published by the University of Texas Press in 2002, has been reinvented as a web portal synchronized to 1,500 hyperlinked archival documents ("binks") digitized from the Briscoe Center’s Rapoport Papers and… read more
