History

The Land Before Texas

June 12, 2018
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Illinois Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment – 36 Years After The Deadline

June 5, 2018
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What’s It Gonna Take To Build A Texas Music Museum?

May 31, 2018
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Congressman Ted Poe Campaigns To Save Battleship Texas

May 31, 2018
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In Their Own Words: San Antonio Students Recall How They Walked Out On School Inequality

May 16, 2018
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Well-Meaning Efforts To Revive Symbols Of UT’s Oil Wealth Run Dry

May 14, 2018
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David Amram Meets Bongo Joe

May 14, 2018
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Remembering Assault, The Only Texas Horse To Win The Triple Crown

May 4, 2018
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How U-2 Spy Pilots Alerted The US To Soviet Missiles in Cuba

May 3, 2018
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Fiesta: Why Some San Antonians Are Conflicted About Citywide Celebration

April 30, 2018
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The Release Of JFK Assassination Files Comes To An End – For Now

April 30, 2018
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The NRA Owes Its Absolutist Gun Rights Stance To Two Texans

April 27, 2018
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Who Was The Galveston Giant, And Why Could He Be In Line For A Presidential Pardon?

April 25, 2018
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App Takes Controversy Out Of ‘Redesigning’ The Alamo

April 20, 2018
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‘As We Saw It’ Tells The Stories Of UT Austin’s First Black Students

April 18, 2018
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25 Years After The Branch Davidian Siege, Waco Has Changed Radically

April 19, 2018
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Barbara Bush, First Lady and Literacy Champion, Took A Bold Approach To The AIDS Epidemic

April 18, 2018
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Uncovering Texas History, One Reel At A Time

April 16, 2018
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What Came Before: The Demolished Neighborhood That Made Way For HemisFair ’68

April 16, 2018
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In 1968, San Antonio’s World’s Fair Changed The City Forever – But It Almost Didn’t Happen

April 13, 2018
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Waco’s Mayborn Museum To Present ‘Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition’

April 12, 2018
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How San Antonio Remade Itself, With The Help Of A World’s Fair

April 12, 2018
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How The 1970s Explains Donald Trump

April 10, 2018
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Protests, Assassinations And Political Change: The U.S. Is Still Haunted By 1968

April 6, 2018
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‘You Treat Evil With Nonviolence:’ Remembering Martin Luther King In Song

April 4, 2018
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‘People Didn’t Talk About This’: New London, Texas Remembers The Day A Generation Died

March 16, 2018
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Flawed And Charismatic, Sam Houston Was Fiercely Devoted To The Union

March 2, 2018
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At Vaudeville Exhibit, See Houdini’s Ball And Chain, Or Do Your Own Song-And-Dance

February 15, 2018
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Why LBJ Called His Own Portrait ‘The Ugliest Thing I Ever Saw’

February 15, 2018
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Historic Houston LULAC Building Gains Historic Designation

February 5, 2018
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Texans Remember Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Flight

February 1, 2018
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Restoration Of Alamo Cannons Reveals Hidden Artifacts

January 30, 2018
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100 Years After The Porvenir Massacre, Most Texans Still Haven’t Heard The Story

January 29, 2018
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Unconstitutional, Un-American, Borderline Insanity: A Survivor Remembers The Branch Davidian Siege

January 23, 2018
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Otherworldly, Amazingly Quiet, Like A Faraway Land: Remembering San Antonio’s Great 1985 Snowstorm

January 16, 2018
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Playwright Arthur Miller’s Papers Acquired By UT’s Ransom Center

January 12, 2018
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Meet The Secret Service Agent Who Was There When Kennedy Died

December 15, 2017
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Ten Years After Hurricane Ike, The Bolivar Peninsula Still Has Scars, And Some Resilient Residents

November 30, 2017
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This Year’s Treacherous Hurricane Season Brings Back Memories Of the Deadliest Storm Of All

November 29, 2017
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“Code Girls” Reveals Stories Of Women Codebreakers During World War II

November 10, 2017
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BOO: The Rise And Fall Of Texas Ghost Towns

October 23, 2017
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The Former ‘Richest Acre In Texas’ Fell Hard When Demand For Silver Took A Dive

October 31, 2017
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The Central Texas Town That Gave Its Life For The War Effort

October 30, 2017
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From The JFK Files: Russian Leader Suspected Dallas Police Of Involvement In The President’s Death

October 27, 2017
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You’ll Find The Remains Of A Former Texas Capital…In Louisiana

October 27, 2017
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Even In Its Heyday As An Oil Town, Moonshine Hill Wasn’t A Great Place To Live

October 26, 2017
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Best, Texas: The Ghost Town With The Worst Reputation

October 25, 2017
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When Lobo’s Water Dried Up, It Took The West Texas Town With It

October 24, 2017
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The Untold Story Of Thursday Night Lights, Texas Football’s Segregated Past

October 24, 2017
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JFK Assassination Buffs Await Massive Federal Document Release

October 24, 2017
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How A Failed Socialist Utopia Made Dallas The City It Is Today

October 23, 2017
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Take Flight Over Fort Worth In One Of The Few Working World War II-Era Bomber Planes Left

October 20, 2017
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Did Harvey Damage Your Family Photos? The Smithsonian’s Tips for Saving Waterlogged Heirlooms

October 16, 2017
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Conservative Critics Suspect George P. Bush’s Motives In Alamo Restoration Project

October 9, 2017
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KAZI Radio’s 35-Year Legacy Marked By Activism, Inclusion And Dedicated Volunteers

August 30, 2017
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Proposal For Multi-Million Dollar Activity Center Brings Controversy

August 9, 2017
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Out Of The Blue: 50 Years After the UT Tower Shooting

July 25, 2016
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A Red River Rivalry That Has Nothing To Do With Football

July 11, 2017
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Finding Amelia Earhart: She And Texas Had History

July 6, 2017
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The ‘True Heroes Of Texas Music’ Don’t Always Get The Credit They Deserve

June 9, 2017
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The One Musician To Get A Ticker-Tape Parade Was A Texan

April 19, 2017
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One Of Texas History’s Most Ruthless Leaders May Not Have Been So Ruthless After All

April 14, 2017
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Texas Epic ‘The Son’ Is Now A TV Series That Doesn’t Shy Away From The State’s Bloody History

April 10, 2017
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Native Americans Seek Their Heritage Within San Antonio’s Rich History

April 7, 2017
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City And State Officials Weigh The Costs Of Restoring The Alamo

March 6, 2017
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The Forgotten Story of the African-American Cowboy

February 16, 2017
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The Alamo is Disintegrating and It Could Be One Man’s Fault

December 12, 2016
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Why Did FDR Use the Word ‘Infamy’ in His Famous Pearl Harbor Speech?

December 6, 2016
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Here’s What Texas Was Like During the Dust Bowl

November 25, 2016
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Here’s How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday

November 24, 2016
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Archaeologists May Have Found the First Location of the Alamo

November 24, 2016
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What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today’s Textbook Fight

November 18, 2016
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Unearthing ‘La Pila,’ A Remnant of A Bygone Hispanic Neighborhood

November 14, 2016
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Shots Fired: Ongoing Repercussions of the Texas Tower Shooting

October 4, 2016
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Fotohistorias Documents Everyday San Antonio West Siders

October 24, 2016
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LBJ’s Unconventional Swearing-In was Never Given a Historical Marker. Here’s Why

October 21, 2016
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Soul Man Joe Tex Nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

October 19, 2016
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Women War Veterans Flown to D.C. to Visit Memorials Built in Their Honor

October 14, 2016
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How Ann Richards Trumped Her Rival Clayton Williams

October 10, 2016
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Sure, Texas Is Big – But It Used to Be Even Bigger

October 5, 2016
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Come and Take It, I Guess

October 4, 2016
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The Challenges in Building the Texas African-American Monument

September 28, 2016
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Black Gospel Collection Goes to Washington

September 23, 2016
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89-Year-Old’s Journey For Juneteenth Is About More Than A Holiday

September 22, 2016
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The Real Texan Who Inspired Captain Woodrow F. Call

September 21, 2016
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At 120 Years, The Crash at Crush Remains Stranger than Fiction

September 15, 2016
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Disaster Responders Say Ike Taught Them Debris Is Your Enemy

September 9, 2016
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Did Lucy, the 3-Million-Year-Old Hominid, Fall from a Tree?

August 31, 2016
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Dallas Paleontologists Find a ‘Candy Store’ of Dinosaur Footprints in Alaska

August 30, 2016
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How a 1917 Houston Riot Echoes the Black Lives Matter Movement

August 25, 2016
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State Approves Jesse Washington Historical Marker

August 17, 2016
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Here’s Why the Voices Caught Between the Black/White Binary Aren’t in American History Books

August 12, 2016
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El Paso’s Historic Plaza Hotel is About to Get a Makeover

August 5, 2016
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New Memorial Brings Closure to Survivors of UT Tower Shooting 50 Years Later

August 2, 2016
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A Reflection on the UT Tower Shooting – ‘We’d All Been Through It Together’

August 1, 2016
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With the Help of Mass Shootings, Texas Continues Its History With Guns

July 29, 2016
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‘It’s Changed Me Forever … How Precious I Hold Life.’

July 29, 2016
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From Morticians to First Responders: How Ambulances Evolved Since the UT Tower Shooting

July 28, 2016
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This Woman’s on a Mission to Rebuild A Texas Landmark

July 28, 2016
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The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat

July 27, 2016
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