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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.
Crunden taught History and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 until his death in 1999. [2] He was the director of the American Studies program from 1985 to 1990.
Immediately thereafter at the age of twenty-eight, he joined the history faculty at Texas A&M University. He became head of the History department in 2002 and remained there until 2017 when he accepted the position of Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History [1] at the University of Texas at Austin. [2]
A new pop-up exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum helps clear the air. Located on the second floor, it includes pages — originals and copies — of the treaty, which are on loan ...
The Austin History Center is the local history collection of the Austin Public Library and the city's historical archive. The building opened as the official Austin Public Library in 1933 and served as the main library until 1979, [ 2 ] when library functions moved to the John Henry Faulk Library, a newer facility next door.
Manny Garcia, Austin American-Statesman January 7, 2024 at 8:01 AM Sharred DeLeon and son Kon DeLeon look at the Tyrannosaur in the Texas Science & Natural History Museum on Sept. 17.
The University of Texas Press has had two books on The New York Times Best Seller list: T.H. White's The Book of Merlyn (1977) [12] and Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (2019), [13] which was part of the American Music Series and which was on the long list for the 2019 National Book Award.
The museum was opened on January 15, 1939. The museum won "Best of Austin" awards from the Austin Chronicle in 2002, 2005, and 2012. [2] The museum had exhibits on Texas history, anthropology, geography, and ethnography, but these were relocated to other museums (including the Bullock Texas State History Museum) in 2001.