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In 1946, the university's Board of Regents resolved to house the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center in the building known as "Cass Gilbert's Old Library". [17] The building was so named because it had been designed by Cass Gilbert , who had been contracted as the university's architect in 1910. [ 18 ]
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.
February 4: A Day for Visionary Debuts. Stop us if you've heard this one before: One man had a vision for a product he felt could change the world, and everybody around him (except the people who ...
Mary Ann Adams Maverick (March 16, 1818 – February 24, 1898), was an early Texas pioneer and author of memoirs which form an important source of information about daily life in and around San Antonio during the Republic of Texas period through the American Civil War.
In 1905 it absorbed the collection of the defunct Public Library (est. in 1871 as the Galveston Free Library). [5] [6] [7] The Rosenberg Library added the Moody Memorial Wing in 1971, doubling the size of the building and re-orienting the entrance to the Sealy Avenue side. The new wing houses the Galveston and Texas History Center.
She developed and constructed the Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center in Colorado Springs in 1995. In 2011, after the center had donated $3.5 million to the Garden of the Gods Foundation, Hill gave the Visitor Center to the Foundation. [7] [8] Hill has donated extensively to a variety of organizations in the Dallas area and in Colorado.
God and Texas is a 1943 one-act play by Robert Ardrey. God and Texas is a fiction play set during the Battle of the Alamo. In 1943 the play was one of five made available royalty free for members of the armed forces to produce with no special clearance or red tape. [1] [2] God and Texas has been published in several
Thirty-five years ago, users heard the infamous dial-up sound for the first time. The '80s were a decade defined by major technological innovations, big hair, cult-classic movies and the start of ...