![]() She also agreed to serve as an ambassador and adviser for the Briscoe Center, and to lecture periodically at the university. “I was gratified that Dick’s papers wouldn’t lie dormant at Briscoe in a vault,” she said. What impressed Kearns Goodwin, in turn, was that the Briscoe Center sponsors and facilitates original research projects based on its archival holdings. I thought they belonged together, in the same building.” Her own archive is valuable for scholars studying Lincoln, the Roosevelts, J.F.K., L.B.J. Doris is a hugely important cultural figure. “But I also told Doris that it should be a package deal. ![]() “When I saw how Dick saved everything from his lengthy and notable career, I was blown away,” said Don Carleton, the executive director of the Briscoe Center. On Thursday, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin announced the acquisition of the Goodwin papers for $5 million, with Kearns Goodwin’s own archive donated to live alongside her husband’s. ![]() When he died in 2018, Kearns Goodwin sought an appropriate home for his papers: Spanning 1950 to 2014, they offer unique insight into 1960s policies and debates, and are a comprehensive record of Goodwin’s professional career. ![]() For decades, the couple kept their archives, including more than 300 boxes of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, memos and speech drafts that Goodwin had saved, especially from his White House days in the 1960s, stored in the two-story barn on their Concord, Mass., property. ![]()
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