Texas

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years
Four hundred and fifty miles west of the University of Texas at Austin, thirty-seven miles (as the car drives) north of the town of Marfa, Texas, and almost 6,800 feet above sea level sit the white and silver domes of the McDonald Observatory.
University of Texas at Austin: Physics Department History
Since its inception, Not Even Past has dedicated itself to the idea that historians and history students aren’t the only ones capable of writing and enjoying history.
[title] image The Long History of the Texas Border Patrol
In the third installation of our series, "Making History," Aragorn Storm Miller speaks with Christina Salinas about her experience as a graduate student in history at the University of Texas at Austin.
[title] image Signs of Faith
[title] image At the Debates: Rick Perry and Galileo
At the Republican presidential debate on September 7, Texas Governor Rick Perry surprised many listeners by responding to a question about the scientific evidence for global climate change by referring to the seventeenth-century century Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei.
[title] image The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam
If you cross the Colorado River at Redbud Trail and look upstream toward Tom Miller Dam, there amid the tumbled rocks you can still see the wreck of Austin’s dream. In 1890, the citizens of Austin voted overwhelmingly to put themselves deeply in debt to build a dam, in hopes that the prospect of cheap waterpower would lure industrialists who would line the riverbanks with cotton mills.
[title] image George on the Lege, Part 9 - Abortion Law in Texas
On May 19, Governor Rick Perry signed into law legislation further restricting abortion rights in Texas. H.B. 15, which passed by 2-1 majorities in both the Texas House and Senate, requires a physician to perform a sonogram on a woman seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
[title] image Joe Jamail Delivers 2011 Commencement Address
On May 20, 2011, the UT Department of History was pleased to welcome one of our most illustrious graduates to deliver this year's Commencement Address. Renowned trial lawyer and generous UT supporter, Joe Jamail (JD 1953, BA History, 1950), treated graduates and their families to his thoughts on the ways that studying History at UT made him the lawyer he became.
[title] image George on the Lege, Part 8 - Public Higher Education
With budget cuts of between $1.2 and $2 billion (9-15%) looming for the 2012-2013 fiscal biennium, Texas public institutions of higher education confront the same task as public primary and secondary
[title] image Family Outing in Austin, Texas
This photograph captures a 1943 family outing to The University of Texas, in Austin.
[title] image George on the Lege, Part 7 - Medicaid
With much of the current budget debate centered on proposed reductions in funding for public and higher education, the biggest elephant in the room is the Texas Medicaid program
[title] image George on the Lege, Part 6 - Betting on Gam(bl)ing
As the Texas Legislature battles an unprecedented budget gap this spring, advocates of various types of gaming are promising billions of doll
[title] image George on the Lege, Part 5 (continued) - School Finance
   From 1949 to 1991, poor school districts had largely driven the debate over reform of the Texas school finance system.
[title] image Liz Carpenter: Texan