Archive for: Briscoe Center for American History

 

A Life in Magazines: Terry McDonell Donates His Archives to the Briscoe

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Terry McDonell in the early days of Outside magazine. New Journalism—the literary style of non-traditional journalism that rocked the magazine world in the 1960s...

 
 
The Burnt-Orange Stranger

The Burnt-Orange Stranger

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It took me a long time to get to know Willie Nelson. My first introduction to him was not as the suit-wearing Nashville upstart, nor as Shotgun Willie, the outlaw,...

 
 

Game On

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A first-of-its-kind archive at UT’s Briscoe Center is preserving video game history. In the summer of 1979, a teenager and incoming UT freshman named Richard...

 
 

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,...

 
 
 
 
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