The Surprising Story of a Small-Town Dancer
Every high school has one: the uninhibited kid who dances nonstop at every prom and party. Senior Cooper Neely was that kid at his high school in Throckmorton, Texas,...
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U.S. Attorney General Gives Big Voting-Rights Policy Speech at UT
Nearly five decades after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the LBJ Presidential Library & Museum,...
Bill Moyers at UT: “The Heroism Keeps Coming”
Two days after Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured in a Tucson shooting, Bill Moyers—renowned journalist, former White House press secretary,...
Gail Collins Talks Women’s Rights—And Wearing Slacks
One morning in the summer of 1960, Lois Rabinowitz went to traffic court to pay her boss’s speeding ticket wearing slacks and a blouse. “Do you appreciate you’re...
Novelist Jonathan Franzen Talks TV, Books, and Social Media
In August 2010, Time magazine announced that the search was over; Jonathan Franzen was the “Great American Novelist.” In response, The New Yorker reported that...
Holocaust Music Symposium: Sounds of Tragedy and Hope
While imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Viktor Ullmann composed Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a one-act opera he scribbled on the back of prisoner...
Top Violinist David Kim Explains Why He Loves Visiting UT
Jerry Maguire changed David Kim’s life. Before Kim was born, his mother decided she wanted to have a son and she would train that son to become a world-famous...
