Materials in Action
May 2013
May 6, 2013 - Matthew Bannister, host of the BBC World Service radio show, Outlook, interviews Barbara Smith Conrad. The interview can be heard online (jump to 34:28). Outlook, features extraordinary personal stories from around the world. The Briscoe Center, home to Barbara Conrad's papers, also produced When I Rise, the award-winning documentary film about Barbara Conrad's life.
May 2, 2013 - National Geographic announces the release of Cronkite's War: His World War ll Letters Home. The book, by Walter Cronkite lV and historian Maurice Isserman, is based on letters written by Cronkite to his wife Betsy, and his wartime dispatches. The Walter Cronkite Papers including more than a hundred of his letters to Betsy are housed at the Briscoe Center.
April 2013
April 30, 2013 - A new book by the University of Texas Press, Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush, presents an extraordinary collection of images, many never before published, by former Chief White House Photographer Eric Draper. Front Row Seat is part of the Focus on American History Series with The University of Texas at Austin’s Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
April 30, 2013 - The Briscoe Center recently co-sponsored the Historic Natchez Conference: From Civil War to Civil Rights. Read about two UT History Department graduate students that presented at the conference and used materials from the Briscoe Center.
April 29, 2013 - The Briscoe Center for American History is pleased to announce its participation in the social media site Historypin.
April 23, 2013 - Lauren Barnes, A&E editor for the PatriotTalon, the student newspaper for the University of Texas at Tyler, announces the screening of When I Rise at Theatre 20 @ Potter Place in Tyler.
April 23, 2013 - Stewart Smith reports in the Tyler Morning Telegraph that "When I Rise should be required viewing." When I Rise will be shown in Tyler on April 26-27 and May 3-4.
April 3, 2013 - The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law receives grant from the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation to launch the Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold Archives Project. The Rapoport Center will work on the project in conjunction with the Briscoe Center, where Farenthold’s papers are located.
March 2013
March 15, 2013 - View video of acclaimed photojournalists Diana Walker and Lucian Perkins as they discuss their favorite photographs in the News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency exhibit, as well as comment on their own experiences covering the presidency.
March 14, 2013 - Lucian Perkins discusses a photograph with fellow photojournalist Diana Walker and moderater Neal Spelce. Read about this event sponsored by the Briscoe Center and the LBJ Presidential Library in Jeremy Thomas's Daily Texan article "Renowned photojournalists discuss history through photographs."
March 12, 2013 - Fred Cantu, reporter for KEYE TV news, tours the Briscoe Center exhibit at the LBJ Presidential Library, News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency.
March 8, 2013 - Phil Coomes, picture editor for the BBC News in Pictures, showcases the Briscoe Center exhibit at the LBJ Presidential Library, News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency.
March 5, 2013 - Briscoe Center collections provide rich resource for Glenn Frankel author of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.
February 2013
February 20, 2013 - Culture Map Austin reviews the Briscoe Center exhibit at the LBJ Presidential Library, News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency.
February 18, 2013 - The Austin American Stateman reported the recent release of I, Too, a CD on Longhorn Music, the Butler School of Music's label at the University of Texas at Austin. Pianist Artina McCain and soprano Icy Simpson tapped into the Briscoe Center's African-American spiritual music collections for this recording. Icy Simpson had surveyed the Center's holdings of African-American gospel music.
February 14, 2013 - The University of Texas showcases the Briscoe Center's News to History exhibit.
February 12, 2013 - Don Carleton discusses the origins of When I Rise on the Austin's Film Society's Slackerwood blog.
February 11, 2013 - Dr. Thomas M. Hatfield, director of the Military Institute at the Briscoe Center, discusses James Earl Rudder and the role of the military in history in an interview on Decision Point, KSCE El Paso.
February 6, 2013 - Hooked In, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, Spring 2013 newsletter, shared images of Walter Cronkite from the Briscoe Center collections.
February 1, 2013 - The Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune reports the debut of the film, Modern Icarus: The Story of Morris Sheppard. Members of the Northeast Texas Community College chapter of the Walter Prescott Webb Society created the film, using the Morris Sheppard Papers housed at the Briscoe Center for their research.
January 2013
January 28, 2013 - The Texas Observer references Red Scare! by Don Carleton in their article Texas Media Lent Credence to Anti-Socialist Hysteria In the ’60s—Has Anything Changed?
January 26, 2013 - Briscoe Center sound archivist John Wheat interviewed by the Houston Chronicle for their article 80 years ago, folklorists found America's Songs.
January 18, 2013 - The Daily Sentinel reports the presentation of the Briscoe Center's award-winning documentary film, When I Rise, as the concluding film in the Fall 2012 Nacogdoches Texas Film Festival. This is the first showing of When I Rise as a selection in the Independent Film Network’s Spring 2013 program.
January 15, 2013 - The Briscoe Center's award-winning documentary film, When I Rise, is the first film in the Texas Independent Film Network’s Spring 2013 program. This inspiring true story will be featured in venues across Texas.
January 7, 2013 - Amateur radio operators participate in the commemoration of the 131st birthday of Sam Rayburn at the Sam Rayburn Museum as reported in the North Texas e-News article "Remembering Rayburn" by Allen Rich.
December
December 8, 2012 - Sixteen objects and numerous photographs are part of the Women Shaping Texas in the 20th Century exhibit at the Bullock Texas State History Museum, December 8, 2012 - May 19, 2013. Included are a "Votes for Women" broadside (ca. 1918), Alamo pocket mirrors, and a 1919 diary of Jane McCallum, a leader in the woman suffrage movement and former Texas Secretary of State. Also included are photographs and objects from the papers of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad.
November
November 30, 2012 - John Wheat remembers Coach Darrell Royal on NPR's "Only A Game" with Bill Littlefield. John Wheat, historian and archivist at the Briscoe Center, co-authored Darrell Royal's autobiography.
November 30, 2012 - The University of Texas at Austin reviews Let the People In: the Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid with a slideshow of images from the Ann W. Richards Papers at the Briscoe Center.
November 28, 2012 - The University of Texas at Austin posts the Briscoe Center's 1882 image of the laying of west wing cornerstone as construction began on "Old Main."
October
October 26, 2012 - Jan Reid, author of Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards, talks to The Austin Chronicle on Ann Richards' legacy. Jan Reid's book used many materials from the Briscoe Center.
October 12, 2012 - The Washington Post reviews Let the People In: the Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid with a slideshow of images from the Ann W. Richards Papers at the Briscoe Center.
October 1, 2012 - Jan Reid, author of Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards, mentions the Briscoe Center while talking Texas Monthly. Ann Richards' papers are housed at the Briscoe Center.
October 2012 - Briscoe Center materials were featured on the BBC's "The One Show". A letter from Jackie Collins to Dominick Dunne was used for a handwriting analysis.
October 12, 2012 - Archivist Stephanie Malmros presents during Professor Jacqueline Jones' HIS 389 class.
September
September 28, 2012 - Archivist Brenda Gunn hosts screening of the Briscoe Center's award winning documentary, "When I Rise" for Professor Gretchen Ritter's Government class.
July
July - Several years ago Stanley Aronowitz researched the C. Wright Mills papers held at the Briscoe Center. He recently published Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectual, Columbia University Press, 2012. C. Wright Mills was born in Waco and studied at the University of Texas at Austin.
July 7, 2012 - Professor Douglas Brinkley, formerly a Distinguished Fellow of the Briscoe Center, is the author of Cronkite, just published by Harper Collins. In addition to interviewing nearly two hundred people, Brinkley found great value in the Cronkite’s papers held at the Briscoe Center.