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The Institute of Texan Cultures (referred to as The ITC or The Institute) is a museum and library operating as a component of The University of Texas at San Antonio.The building which housed the institute is a striking example of Brutalist architecture, [1] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
Following his doctoral studies, Hall served as Fellow of Institute of Early American History and Culture, for a period of three years before moving from Virginia to Texas. In 1959, he was recruited by University of Texas as an Assistant Professor at Department of History. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1964, and to Professor, in 1970.
It was published as A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture in 1983. After serving as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin College (1978–1980), he joined the History Department at the University of Houston (1981–2007). He became the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American ...
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is an organized research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin named for Dolph Briscoe, the 41st governor of Texas. The center collects and preserves documents and artifacts of key themes in Texas and United States history and makes the items available to researchers ...
On February 13, 1897, ten persons convened to discuss the creation of a nonprofit to promote Texas state history. [2] George Pierce Garrison, chair of the University of Texas history department, led the organizational meeting establishing the association on March 2, 1893. [3] The TSHA elected Oran Milo Roberts as its first president.
Eugene C. Barker — Texas historian, chair of the history department, academic journal editor; Nettie Lee Benson – historian, archivist, and the namesake of the Benson Latin American Collection; Walter L. Buenger – historian of the American South; Daina Ramey Berry – History Department Chair, historian specializing in gender, slavery ...
Dillard’s history goes back to pre-World War II, small-town Arkansas. Founder William Thomas Dillard borrowed money from his father in 1938 to open a clothing store in the hamlet of Nashville.
On January 31, 1860, wanting to avoid raising taxes, the legislature authorized the funds for the University of Texas. [7] Article 7, Section 11 of the 1876 Constitution established the Permanent University Fund (PUF), a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, dedicated to the university's maintenance ...