Center for Texas Studies

Did you know that TCU houses over one hundred pre-Columbian artifacts? And that a former university employee stole over 100 of them? Join us as Dr. Alex Hidalgo and students from his graduate-level class provide the in-depth story of the theft, including which artifacts were never recovered and what could have happened to them. They... Read more »

Did you know that a novel published in late 1940 rocked the movers and shakers of Cowtown? The Inheritors by Philip Atlee (a pseudonym) was a thinly-veiled work of fiction that included salacious details of Fort Worth high society. Join us for E.R. Bills’s presentation on the book, its author, the contemporary reaction, and the... Read more »