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....
Growing up in pre-Nazi Germany, Gretel Bergmann skied, skated, and swam. And she claims to have she learned it all on her own.
“Nobody ever taught me anything....
This column first appeared in The Daily Texan.
With all the recent attacks on higher education in the United States, perhaps most noticeably in funding cuts to...
It’s been 75 years since the world first fell in love with Scarlett O’Hara. To mark the occasion, a new exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center takes a behind-the-scenes...
This summer marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing. Support for NASA continues to shrink, yet many Americans yearn for a return to the aggressive era...
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...
UT professor H.W. Brands is putting a modern twist on American history—in 140 characters or less.
Historian H.W. Brands is best known for his thorough, comprehensive...
As Nigeria’s search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls enters its third month and some call for U.S. intervention, UT graduate student Brian McNeil explains...
A quarter century after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, UT historian Jeremi Suri reflects on what’s changed about China—and what hasn’t.
This...
