Making Room for a Lost Voice
August 1, 2024
By Jo Scott-Coe For the 58th anniversary of the 1966 UT Tower Shooting August 1 will mark fifty-eight years since a mass shooting at UT Austin left fourteen people dead… READ MORE
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Excerpt from Houston and the Permanence of Segregation by David Ponton III
February 1, 2024
To kick off Black History Month, we’re sharing an excerpt from David Ponton III’s much-anticipated book Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History, a history… READ MORE
Q&A with Jo Scott-Coe on Recovering Kathy Leissner Whitman’s Voice
July 10, 2023
In this Q&A, Jo Scott-Coe discusses the process behind her new book Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman. Informed by first-person sources and family documents, this… READ MORE
June 2023 Media Roundup I
June 27, 2023
Every week, our wonderful publicity team tracks the cross-platform media coverage our authors and their books receive. We’re proud to share our latest and greatest highlights below with links to… READ MORE
May 2023 Media Roundup III
June 16, 2023
Every week, our wonderful publicity team tracks the cross-platform media coverage our authors and their books receive. We’re proud to share our latest and greatest highlights below with links to… READ MORE
38th Anniversary of Lonesome Dove Publication; We Have a New Book on Larry McMurtry!
June 13, 2023
Today, on the 38th anniversary of the publication of Larry McMurtry’s treasured novel of the American West, Lonesome Dove, the University of Texas Press is proud to feature our forthcoming book, Pastures… READ MORE
May 2023 Media Roundup I
June 5, 2023
Every week, our wonderful publicity team tracks the cross-platform media coverage our authors and their books receive. We’re proud to share our latest and greatest highlights below with links to… READ MORE
March 2023 Media Roundup III
March 31, 2023
Every week, our wonderful publicity team tracks the cross-platform media coverage our authors and their books receive. We’re proud to share our latest and greatest highlights below with links to… READ MORE
Author Q&A: David Hillis on Biodiversity in the Texas Hill Country
March 28, 2023
In his book Armadillos to Ziziphus: A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country, Dr. David Hillis guides readers through the region’s plants and animals. His approachable essays on the ecology… READ MORE
Coloring Pages from Texas Lithographs
February 28, 2023
Ron Tyler’s new book Texas Lithographs tells the story of nineteenth-century Texas through images. Lithographs allowed for the inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations before photography. As they rose in popularity,… READ MORE
