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Game On

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For a century, UT students have been participating in organized, non-varsity sports. In celebration of 100 years of blood, sweat, and beer-league competition, we...

 
 
The View from Parlin

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The View from Parlin

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An English professor pays tribute to his home on campus. The girl just ahead of me is talking excitedly on her iPhone. She is in a world of her own, and I listen....

 
 

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...

 
 

Borges in Texas

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The forgotten story of a literary giant who walked the Forty Acres. A man walks into an enormous auditorium—seats filled, people crowding at the back. Blind,...

 
 

1984: The Year Commencement Almost Moved to the Erwin Center

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Campus has been buzzing for days with commencement preparations—roped-off lawns, stage and seating construction, speaker system sound checks—all anchored around...

 
 

The Way Back: We Can Do It!

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When bombs fell on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the world changed forever—and so did life at UT. The university underwent a drastic transformation as it restructured...

 
 

What Kind of History Should We Teach?

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About two years ago I moved from Madison to Austin because I was convinced that the flagship university in Texas was building the best group of scholars and students...

 
 

A UT Legend Celebrates a Century

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John Henderson—the oldest living former UT football player—has a lot to celebrate: 100 years of life, 73 years of marriage, and 80 years attending Longhorn football...

 
 

Spielberg’s Lincoln: A Historian’s Review

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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...

 
 

Still Cheering

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1955-1967 UT Cheerleaders Reunite at the Alumni Center Ask Bill Melton how cheerleading has changed, and he gets nostalgic. Not that he has anything against the...

 
 
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