Texas Educational Media Program

An initiative of the University of Texas Departments of History and of Radio/Television (of which KLRU was part), the Texas Educational Media Program initiative brought to Austin forty-one of the foremost American historians and taped them in two or three 30-minute lectures. Part of a course entitled “The History of American Civilization - By Its Interpreters,” the lectures were intended to be a component upper undergraduate courses that “should be the liveliest, most-talked-about in a department’s offerings.” Originally headed by Walter Prescott Webb, Joe Frantz took over after Webb’s unexpected death and completed the project in 1963.

An initiative of the University of Texas Departments of History and of Radio/Television (of which KLRU was part), the Texas Educational Media Program initiative brought to Austin forty-one of the foremost American historians and taped them in two to three 30-minute lectures.

Part of a course entitled "The History of American Civilization - By Its Interpreters," the lectures were intended to be a component upper of undergraduate courses that "should be the liveliest, most-talked-about in a department's offerings." Originally headed by Walter Prescott Webb, Joe Frantz took over after Webb's unexpected death and completed the project in 1963.