50th Anniversary Celebration Set for December 9, 2005 at the Sam Rayburn Museum Contact: Alison Beck, Associate Director Center for American History Phone: (512) 495-4515 Fax: (512) 495-4542 al.beck@mail.utexas.edu Date: November 18, 2005 (Bonham, Tx) — The Sam Rayburn Museum will host a gala celebration in recognition of the fiftieth… read more
The First Texas News Barons
The First Texas News Barons Contact: Alison Beck, Associate Director Center for American History Phone: (512) 495-4515 Fax: (512) 495-4542 al.beck@mail.utexas.edu Date: November 15, 2005 The First Texas News Barons by Dr. Patrick Cox is the newest publication in the Focus on American History Series, Center for American History (CAH),… read more
Storied Texas Football Coach Darrel Royal Featured in Unique New Oral Memoir
Storied Texas Football Coach Darrel Royal Featured in Unique New Oral Memoir Contact: Alison Beck, Associate Director Center for American History Phone: (512) 495-4515 Fax: (512) 495-9468 al.beck@mail.utexas.edu Date: September 14, 2005 The Center for American History is pleased to announce the publication of Coach Royal: Conversations with a Texas… read more
Sam Rayburn Museum Receives Save Our Treasures Grant and Announces 50th Anniversary Celebration Event, December 9, 2005
Sam Rayburn Museum Receives Save Our Treasures Grant and Announces 50th Anniversary Celebration Event, December 9, 2005 The Sam Rayburn Museum of the Center for American History (CAH) announces that they have received a $197,000 matching grant from the Save Our Treasures Program of the National Park Service. The museum… read more
Exhibition Features Photographs of Noted Photojournalist Wally McNamee
Exhibition Features Photographs of Noted Photojournalist Wally McNamee Date: May 9, 2005 He was there as President Eisenhower welcomed Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to Washington D.C. in 1959; as President Ronald Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss disarmament in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1986; and as George… read more
Halstead, Kennerly Named Among the 100 Most Important People in Photography
A list of the 100 most important people in photography has just been released by the editors of American Photo in the May/June issue. Dirck Halstead and David Hume Kennerly are identified as among those who are shaping the art and business of photography in 2005. David Schonauer, the magazine’s… read more
