May | June 2017

 

May|June 2017 Alumni Authors

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Supranational Union & New Medievalism by Lance Kennedy, BA ’09, Life Member Kennedy studies the Scottish National Party’s growth in prominence since the...

 
 

May|June 2017 Good Reads

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New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe   Rewrite Man: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren by Alison Macor, MA ’91, PhD ’00 Rewrite...

 
 

The Way Back: Garnering Gavels

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Unlocking the vault of UT history Among UT’s vast collection of artifacts are 160 gavels that once belonged to John Nance Garner. In 1931, as Speaker of the...

 
 

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Not For Sale: Human Trafficking in Texas

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On the second floor of the Refugee Services of Texas building, just off I-35 in Northeast Austin, a group of women chat and laugh as they craft handmade dolls. Dressed...

 
 

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The 2017 Texas Ten

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From lengthy, heartwarming diatribes about life-changing lectures to all-caps declarations of a professor’s awesomeness, each year, the Texas 10 nominations elicit...

 
 

The Sage

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David Courtney, BA ’93, on being The Texanist Since 1973, Texas Monthly has been an authority on all things Texan. But in 2007, the magazine went one step further...

 
 

Cuba Libre

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Four UT scholars get a dose of cultural immersion in Havana When a group of four Forty Acres Scholars boarded their plane from Havana, Cuba back to Florida earlier...

 
 

Boomerang Days: Dancehall Days

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A Longhorn does college all over again. I’m not a strong dancer. I’m more likely to catch a rare disease than the groove. Watching me on the dance floor is...

 
 
Sweet Success

Sweet Success

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Almost 20 years in, Tiff’s Treats is taking cookie delivery nationwide. If you’ve ever had the monotony of a boring workday broken by an assorted box of still-warm...

 
 

Cold Shoulder

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More than 50 years after the Cold War began, the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History H.W. Brands discusses why Russian-American relations are still at odds today....

 
 
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