Archive for: civil war

Spielberg’s Lincoln: A Historian’s Review

By Nicholas Roland

As Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln draws crowds to theaters, a UT history graduate student reviews the film through a historian’s lens. His verdict: While...

UT’s First Portrait

By Jim Nicar

The earliest known photograph of the University of Texas, which opened in 1883. At the time, UT inhabited a 40-acre tract of land just north of Austin, bounded...