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Barbecue, Football and Regional Pride
Elizabeth Engelhardt, associate professor of American studies and author of Republic of Barbecue For many carnivorous Texas Longhorn fans, celebrating a big win just wouldn’t be complete without a...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian William H. Goetzmann Dies
Historian William H. Goetzmann, professor emeritus of history and American studies, died Sept. 7 at age 79. A specialist in the American West, Goetzmann won both the Pulitzer and Parkman prizes in 1967...
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Winners of the Fourteenth Annual Hamilton Book Awards Sponsored by the...
The winners of this year’s University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards were announced on Wednesday, October 20, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The Hamilton Award is one of the highest honors...
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“Beyond El Barrio” Symposium and Book Signing
Despite the hyper-visibility of Latinos and Latin American immigrants in recent political debates and popular culture, the daily lives of America’s new “majority minority” remain largely invisible and...
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Texas Institute of Letters Selects “Quest for Equality” as Most Significant...
Historian Neil Foley’s book, “Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity” (Harvard University Press, May 2010) was selected by the Texas Institute of Letters as the most...
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Faculty Authors Showcase their Works at the 16th Annual Texas Book Festival
Book lovers, foodies, artists and scholars will partake in an annual rite of fall here in Austin: The Texas Book Festival. The 16th annual Texas Book Festival will take place in and around the Texas...
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Author Dishes Up Stories of Race, Class, Gender and Place in Southern Food
The South has always been celebrated for its food. From collard greens and okra to heaping plates of biscuits and gravy, Southern food is as much a state of mind as it is a matter of geography....
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University of Texas at Austin Faculty Authors Discuss their Books on C-SPAN2...
This weekend, be sure to tune in to C-SPAN2 Book TV to watch two University of Texas at Austin professors discuss their books. American Studies Professor Julia Mickenberg will discuss her book “Tales...
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American Studies Alumnus Tunes In to Early 70s Radio
Do you ever wonder why radio stations play the same tired songs over and over again? Or why we’re forced to listen to talk shows while we’re stuck in rush-hour traffic? In “Early ‘70s Radio: The...
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Historian Matthew Hedstrom Details the Evolution of ‘Post-Protestant...
In “The Rise of Liberal Religion” historian and University of Texas at Austin alumnus Matthew Hedstrom attends to the critically important yet little-studied area of religious book culture, paying...
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