Conserving Texas, Preserving History:Understanding Our Texas Landscape 2010 Winedale Spring Symposium | April 17, 2010, 9:00 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. The 2010 Winedale Symposium gives guests the opportunity to explore the connections between history and nature, featuring talks from historian Douglas Brinkley, Conservation History Association of Texas Founder David Todd,… read more
Briscoe Center Hosts Book Launch Event for The House Will Come to Order
Briscoe Center Hosts Book Launch Event for The House Will Come to Order The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History will hold a book launch for its newest book, The House Will Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics. The event takes… read more
Briscoe Center Awarded TexTreasures Grant for Bexar Archives
Briscoe Center Awarded TexTreasures Grant for Bexar Archives February 25, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas – The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a TexTreasures grant to support online access to the Bexar Archives, one of the most important archival collections of… read more
When I Rise World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival: Documentary Focuses on Barbara Smith Conrad, Opera Singer Who Overcame Discrimination
When I Rise World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival Documentary Focuses on Barbara Smith Conrad, Opera Singer Who Overcame Discrimination Barbara Conrad performs in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol, 2009. Related Sites:When I Rise Official Site SXSW Film Festival When I Rise Project Site AUSTIN, Texas—”When I Rise,”… read more
Plaid Pineapple, Broken Wheel, and Snail’s Trail: A New Look at Old Patterns The Annual Winedale Quilt Exhibition
Plaid Pineapple, Broken Wheel, and Snail’s Trail: A New Look at Old Patterns The Annual Winedale Quilt Exhibition About the exhibit: There are thousands of pieced quilt patterns and nearly every one of them has one name, if not more. This exhibition of more than 20 quilts revisits a group… read more
Behind the Lens: White House Photography from LBJ to Obama
Behind the Lens: White House Photography from LBJ to Obama Sponsored by the LBJ Library and The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Tickets are no longer available for this presentation. Although there is no guarantee, we anticipate some seats will become available. If you would like, you may be… read more
Broadcast Journalist Morley Safer Donates Papers to Briscoe Center
Broadcast Journalist Morley Safer Donates Papers to Briscoe Center November 12, 2009 Detail from snapshot of Morley Safer affectionately known as “Stoneface” by his Vietnamese colleagues, Saigon, 1965. Safer (Morley) Papers, DBCAH. AUSTIN, Texas—Morley Safer, the highly acclaimed CBS News broadcast journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, will donate his papers… read more
Briscoe Center’s Brenda Gunn Receives Top Honors
Briscoe Center’s Brenda Gunn Receives Top Honors November 11, 2009 AUSTIN, Texas – Brenda Gunn, associate director for research and collections at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, has recently been honored with two professional awards. Gunn received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Southwest Archivists,… read more
Archives Week 2009: Briscoe Center Hosts Free Talk on “Salvaging New Orleans”
Archives Week 2009: Briscoe Center Hosts Free Talk on “Salvaging New Orleans” Hurricanes, floods, armed conflict… and coffee spills: disasters of any scale can wreak havoc on the documentation of our cultural record. Join the University of Texas at Austin Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists for Archives… read more
The Briscoe Center and TCU Press celebrate the publication of Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White with two public events
The Briscoe Center and TCU Press celebrate the publication of Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White with two public events About the book Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White by Bob Ray Sanders, with a foreword by Don Carleton The book features… read more
