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March 13, 2024
How did Mexican obsidian turn up in the Panhandle? Could be Coronado
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March 11, 2024
This week in Texas music history: Conjunto musician Eloy Bernal is born
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March 5, 2024
Jovita Idár quarter named best coin design of 2023
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March 4, 2024
Today in Texas music history: The birth of Roxy Gordon
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February 28, 2024
Commentary: The mystery of the Texas box
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February 27, 2024
Black History Month Profile: The Austin Chitlin’ Circuit
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February 21, 2024
This week in Texas music history: Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris appear at the Armadillo World Headquarters
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February 19, 2024
Black History Month Profile: Glenn ‘Spot’ Lockett
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February 15, 2024
This week in Texas music history: Bevis M. Griffin champions Black voices at the punk mothership in 1987
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February 14, 2024
Bonnie and Clyde: Star-synced lovers
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February 12, 2024
Black History Month Profile: Lavelle White
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February 6, 2024
San Antonio Zoo discovers 30-year-old time capsule during construction
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February 5, 2024
‘A Waddle Through Time’ celebrates the adaptability of ducks and calls for ensuring their survival
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February 5, 2024
Black History Month Profile: The Eastside Kings Blues Festival
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February 2, 2024
A Texas professor’s seminal work is the basis of ‘Genius: MLK/X’
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January 16, 2024
New book tracks NASA’s Space Shuttle program – perhaps its ‘most important’ era thus far
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January 9, 2024
Stanley Walker: The most famous Texas journalist you’ve probably never heard of
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January 3, 2024
Storied Boerne property secrets reveal much about its era
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January 3, 2024
West Side Sound sax player Rocky Morales born, 1940
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September 20, 2021
How Sandra Day O’Connor’s western ethos guided her Supreme Court tenure
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November 22, 2023
60 years after JFK assassination, revisiting the stories of two witnesses in Dallas
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November 13, 2023
San Antonio’s Chili Queens: The story behind their 60-year reign
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November 10, 2023
Amid World War II, Leonard Vara Fuentes followed his passion into the skies
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November 8, 2023
Commentary: Found in translation
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November 6, 2023
Award-winning author Elizabeth Crook takes readers though the Texas frontier in ‘The Madstone’
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October 31, 2023
The Goatman of Old Alton Bridge: A tale rooted in Texas’ historical racial tensions
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October 30, 2023
Roky Erickson’s scary psychedelic songs
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October 25, 2023
Commentary: On censorship
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October 25, 2023
This week in Texas music history: Buddy Holly releases ‘Not Fade Away’ and ‘Oh, Boy!’
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October 24, 2023
‘Cemetery Birding’ highlights why hobbyists are flocking to cemeteries across Texas
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October 23, 2023
What are the most haunted places in Texas?
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October 18, 2023
Texas anthropological food event connects the past and present
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October 18, 2023
This week in Texas music history: Houston rapper Bun B releases first solo album
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October 17, 2023
Before teaming up with Sinatra, Trini Lopez began his musical journey in Dallas
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October 10, 2023
Corpus Christi’s Galvan Ballroom welcomed all at a time when segregation was the norm
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October 6, 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight: Ruben Ramos
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October 5, 2023
‘If somebody is in trouble, you help’: Author Luis Alberto Urrea recounts his mother’s WWII story in new novel
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October 3, 2023
Former Texas Memorial Museum reopens with new name, new exhibits
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September 28, 2023
How Lydia Mendoza became the ‘Meadowlark of the Border’
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September 19, 2023
From migrant farmworker to scientist: Elma González opened doors for Latinas in STEM
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September 13, 2023
Texas as God’s Country
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July 24, 2020
Full participation: 30 years of the Americans With Disabilities Act
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August 31, 2023
Houston’s first annual Pop Festival takes places in 1968
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August 28, 2023
New book chronicles the story of two Texas conscientious objector combat medics in Vietnam
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August 16, 2023
How Fort Worth was saved by the railroad
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August 3, 2023
The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’
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August 1, 2023
Johnny Winter’s historic show at the Vulcan Gas Company broke new ground
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July 24, 2023
50 years later: Dallas pays tribute to 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, recalls his murder
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July 20, 2023
‘Oppenheimer’ portrays the ‘father of the atomic bomb,’ but how accurate is it?
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July 10, 2023
A newspaper war, then a news drought: How Arlington had, then lost its daily news coverage
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July 5, 2023
The Second Sacking of San Antonio
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March 8, 2023
Texas folk trio and one member’s journey take center stage in ‘Nobody Famous’
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June 22, 2023
New podcast looks at the life of Lady Bird Johnson
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June 19, 2023
Attendees reflect on Juneteenth during jubilee at Austin’s Willie Mae Kirk Library
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June 19, 2023
New novel ‘Night Wherever We Go’ centers on the collective defiance of six enslaved women in Texas
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June 16, 2023
Sugar Land podcast, Episode 1: Who’s buried here?
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June 15, 2023
New podcast unearths dark history underpinning Sugar Land’s sweet image
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June 8, 2023
What’s the oldest music venue in Austin?
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June 6, 2023
New book explores 50 most influential Texans from over the past half century
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June 6, 2023
New podcast explores how a cemetery forced a ‘sweet’ city to confront its history
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May 29, 2023
The Longoria affair: Soldier’s burial was a flashpoint for Mexican American civil rights movement
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May 22, 2023
The ‘fires, floods, explosions and bloodshed’ that make Texas whiskey what it is today
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May 12, 2023
Texas almost approved a school voucher program in the 1950s – to avoid desegregation.
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May 10, 2023
‘You Will Never Be One of Us,’ shows how a small town teacher’s fight in 1975 is relevant today
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May 1, 2023
The Black Classicists of Central Texas
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April 27, 2023
Commentary: Texas cities like Seguin should rethink Texas Ranger celebrations
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May 1, 2023
Vietnamese community in DFW marks a sad day in history — the fall of Saigon
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April 24, 2023
Texas archeologists team up with Indigenous communities in Paint Rock excavation
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April 19, 2023
Graduates of San Antonio’s Peacock Military Academy cherish memories of a ‘magical place’
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March 23, 2023
Sports coming-of-age movie ‘The Long Game’ tells a true Texas story for a wider audience
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March 22, 2023
More than 40 years later, a Texan reveals a secret that may have swayed an election
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March 22, 2023
Descendants of El Polvo’s founding families gather on the border to celebrate the community’s history
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March 9, 2023
From a 1923 service station to the world’s biggest Buc-ee’s: A brief history of gas stations in Texas
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February 17, 2023
With San Benito conjunto museum, a daughter continues her father’s labor of love
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February 14, 2023
Abandoned and forgotten: Dallas journalist reclaims history by restoring Black cemetery
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February 9, 2023
Texas A&M archeologists find prehistoric projectile in mastodon rib
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February 7, 2023
New book examines the significance of Lawrence v. Texas, which paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights
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February 2, 2023
Marfa art exhibit centers lives of Chinese railroad workers
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January 27, 2023
Turning every page: Exploring the relationship between Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
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January 23, 2023
This historic Gulf Coast hotel is temporarily safe from demolition
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January 12, 2023
Historians fact-check our country’s foundational stories in ‘Myth America’
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January 5, 2023
Disagreements over civil rights leader’s death lead to calls for a new investigation
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January 4, 2023
Witnesses point to more nefarious circumstances surrounding civil rights leader’s death
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January 3, 2023
Questions still haunt death of Texas civil rights hero
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December 21, 2022
Commentary: Jesse H. Jones was a model philanthropist
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December 13, 2022
This historic Gulf Coast hotel could be just days from demolition
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December 12, 2022
Texas’ last public lighthouse shines for the first time in 117 years
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December 7, 2022
Corpus Christi and surrounding area designated a World War II Heritage City
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November 11, 2022
Richard E. Cavazos, whose name will replace that of Fort Hood, was a ‘soldiers’ soldier’
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October 5, 2016
Sure, Texas Is Big – But It Used to Be Even Bigger
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November 10, 2022
New archaeology could change story behind borderland massacre by Texas Rangers
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October 18, 2022
Meet ‘The Forgotten Nine,’ unsung women artists from Denton who trailblazed modernism in Texas art
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October 14, 2022
The complicated legacy of César Chávez
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October 7, 2022
WWII veteran’s run-in with police led him to fight to change Houston institutions
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October 7, 2022
Advocates are fighting to save this historic north Dallas cemetery
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October 5, 2022
Hispanic students were once segregated at this school. Now it will be a historic site
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October 4, 2022
Ramiro ‘Ramsey’ Muñiz, history-making Latino activist, dies at 79
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September 30, 2022
Marfa’s Blackwell School given national historic status
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September 9, 2015
How Texas saved the buffalo
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September 19, 2022
In 1957, this team of Hispanic golfers shocked Texas by winning state
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