Texas Educational Media Program

Dates:
Active 1961
Active 1963

Biographical notes:

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.

From the guide to the KLRU-TEMP Video Collection 67-164., 1961-1963, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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.

From the description of KLRU-TEMP Video Collection, 1961-1963 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 773404155

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Subjects:

  • Universities and colleges
  • Universities and colleges
  • Television in higher education
  • Television in higher education

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Texas (as recorded)