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UT Publishes Free Digital Edition of “The Collections”

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More than 170 million cultural artifacts fill the university’s repositories, outdoing many of the largest collections in the nation. But people don’t have to...

 
 

The Bullhorn: January 1948

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We’ve dug deep into the Alcalde archives to bring you historical campus news. The events described below actually happened.* by Uriah T. Schrivner Campus nightowls...

 
 

Rare Color Photos Show the Forty Acres 100 Years Ago

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Believed to be the earliest color images taken on campus, these photos are the handiwork of UT physics professor and photography enthusiast John Matthias Kuehne...

 
 

Ransom Center Adds Ian McEwan Archive

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At age 11, Ian McEwan earned a B in his English class. “Has done well—sometimes careless,” noted his teacher in the margin of his report card. She...

 
 

The Red-Headed Stranger Gives His Archives to UT

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A firefighter’s helmet handed over as a token of thanks to a man who gave generously to relief efforts after the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West,...

 
 

Ransom Center Acquires 21 Unpublished J. D. Salinger Letters

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J.D. Salinger may have led a private life, but even a century’s time couldn’t hide the extent of his talent. UT’s world-class humanities archive, the...

 
 

Ransom Center Receives Biggest Donation Ever

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UT’s Harry Ransom Center has long been an archival powerhouse that draws scholars from around the globe, with holdings including an original Gutenberg Bible...

 
 

Ransom Center Opens Coetzee Archive

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In the 1960s, J. M. Coetzee was a UT graduate student, poring over Samuel Beckett archives at the Harry Ransom Center. Today, he’s a Nobel Prize-winning author...

 
 

From the Archives: Bevo Finds Love

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Here’s a gem from the Alcalde photo archives. We were intrigued by this image and its caption, which reads “Thomas Aguirre (mascot) and Cheerleader Jeannie...

 
 
 
 
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