To request a Class Visit or Instructional Services from the Briscoe Center, please fill out our Instruction Support Request Form.
Archival instruction is not just for history classes! Archival documents are ideal for teaching students to analyze information sources and consider the historical context of their topics of study—all while they experience a personal connection to the past.
The Briscoe Center’s collection contains historical treasures documenting key themes in Texas and U. S. History. Topics include:
- American Energy Industry
- American South
- Archives of American
- Mathematics
- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Congressional and Political
- History
- Documentary Photography
- Historical Quilts
- Music and Entertainment
- History
- News Media History
- Photography
- Photojournalism
- Texas History
- The University of Texas
- History
- Western Americana
Our instruction services provide opportunities for primary source engagement and archival literacy acquisition. Where possible, we choose items with parallels to the course subject, current events or topics of interest to the students.
Your students will work in groups to study and analyze archival objects from Briscoe Center collections, looking at the materiality of the item as well as examining the rhetorical and contextual aspects.
And, of course, we can instruct your students in how to find primary sources in the Briscoe Center’s collections appropriate to their research.
The Briscoe Center has created some instructional videos that students and educators can use to get acquainted with archives and how to use the Briscoe Center as a resource. You can view the playlist for these educational and instructional videos hosted on YouTube below, or select individual videos from the list below.
- What to Expect When Visiting the Briscoe Center?
- What Are Archives?
- What Are Finding Aids?
- How to Find Primary Sources
- Browse Our Digital Collections
- Search Our Digital Collections
- Creating a UT Researcher Account
- Creating a Researcher Account (Non-UT Individuals)
- How to Request Materials from the Briscoe Center
To request a Class Visit or Instructional Services from the Briscoe Center, please fill out our Instruction Support Request Form.
