The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas has extended our main gallery exhibit and, in celebration, is taking a closer look at the items and documents that make up History and Fate: The Goodwins and the 1960s. The exhibit explores the intwining stories of political speech writer Dick Goodwin, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and their romance through the tumultuous decade.
In these three episodes, two of the Center’s curators, Sarah Sonner and Jill Morena, take a look at their favorite items. Sonner details Dick Goodwin’s journals that he wrote during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and Morena picks a cigar box given by Che Guevara to Dick Goodwin. While in conversation with Center deputy director Erin Purdy, Doris Kearns Goodwin explains the history of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information visit briscoecenter.org.
Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin explains the history of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech.
Interview with Sarah Sonner, Center Curator
Sonner details Dick Goodwin’s journals that he wrote during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Interview with Jill Morena, Center Curator
Jill Morena tells the story of a cigar box given by Che Guevara to Dick Goodwin.
