Life & Letters

UT Libraries

  • What is Juneteenth?

    Although Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, the date the holiday observes, June 19, 1865, came more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, when Texas finally received word that slavery had ended.

    Rachel E. Winston, Daina Ramey Berry and Kevin Cokley

  • UT Austin MAPATHON Helps with Disaster Relief

    Following the recent hurricanes and earthquake, LILLAS Benson joined the University of Texas Libraries and people around the world in using the OpenStreetMap platform to donate their time to hurricane relief efforts through open-source mapping. Videography and photography by Todd Bogin

    Rachel White

  • Using Your Mellon

    The College of Liberal Arts has a long and proud tradition of preparing its graduate students to teach and conduct research in the humanities at colleges and universities around the world, and we are particularly proud of our many placements in the nation’s top institutions. However, over the past two decades academic positions in the…

    Randy Diehl