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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 ...
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 ...
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 51,913 students as of fall 2023, it is also the largest institution in the system. [13]
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.
Garrison Hall (abbreviated GAR) is a building located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. [1] It is named after George Pierce Garrison (1853–1910), the history department's first chair and a founding member of the Texas State Historical Association. [2] Construction began in 1925 and finished the following year. [2]
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 ...
The institution is a major research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, US and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with ...
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] Simultaneously, he became the Chief Historian at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), [3] [4] and became editor of the TSHA journal ...