History

October 8, 2024

Belle Ortiz was instrumental in bringing mariachi programs to Texas schools

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October 3, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Johnny Cash arrested in El Paso

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Museum wall with Selena pictures and gold albums
October 1, 2024

Nearly 30 years since her death, Selena’s reign as Queen of Tejano endures

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September 19, 2024

The Tejano Monument on the state Capitol grounds faced many hurdles

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September 18, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Big Boys and The Dicks record ‘Live at Raul’s’

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September 11, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Professor Longhair at Soap Creek Saloon

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September 3, 2024

Newly discovered interviews paint picture of legendary El Paso DJ Steve Crosno

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August 30, 2024

What’s the story behind ZZ Top’s First Annual Texas-Size Rompin’ Stompin’ Barndance and Bar B.Q.?

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August 30, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Chelo Silva

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August 27, 2024

Celebrating 85 years of high kicks and history in East Texas

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August 22, 2024

‘The Long Ride Home’: New photo book spotlights Black cowboys in contemporary America

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August 20, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Big Moe

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August 15, 2024

Two cousins uncover family ties while reviving Dallas’ Tenth Street District

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August 13, 2024

A tiny East Texas museum makes sure the history of the London School explosion is not forgotten

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August 12, 2024

How conservators got just the right polish on an Alamo cannon

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August 13, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Dallas Bronco Bowl’s final performance

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August 2, 2024

From Mosasaurs to ‘Magic Valley’: A peek inside the Museum of South Texas History

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August 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Charlie Christian and Southern electric guitar

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August 1, 2024

‘Overwhelmed and humbled’: 58 years after he helped student wounded by UT sniper, reflections on a thank-you letter

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July 23, 2024

Texas’ plantation prisons: Inside a 200-year history of forced labor shrouded in secrecy

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July 22, 2024

Drawing parallels: How similar is the 2024 election to 1968?

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July 17, 2024

Marfa’s Blackwell School formally established as new national historic site

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July 12, 2024

‘Inside the Well’ traces ripples after the rescue of Midland’s Baby Jessica

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July 9, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Link Davis

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July 5, 2024

New book sheds light on how one lawman shaped policy, and perception, of the southern border

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July 3, 2024

Commentary: He who has the gold, makes the rules

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July 1, 2024

Through dance, a centuries-old love story comes home to Shankleville

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June 28, 2024

This week in Texas music history: DJ Screw lays down the June 27th Freestyle

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June 26, 2024

‘40 Acres and a Lie’ tells the story of a broken promise’s legacy

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Three people sit in chairs facing the crowd in front of them. In the middle a woman holds up a microphone and is speaking while the other two look on. The woman is Windy Goodloe.
June 19, 2024

‘We still come together’: Juneteenth gathering highlights traditions of Black Seminoles

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June 18, 2024

‘We Were Illegal’ author looks into Texas history by diving into her family’s own

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A view of the front of the San Juan Hotel
June 17, 2024

San Juan Hotel, one of the Valley’s oldest, faces uncertain future

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June 12, 2024

This week in Texas music history: Hole In The Wall opens in Austin

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June 10, 2024

Found sound: San Antonio Mayor Maury Maverick on 1939 radio

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June 7, 2024

Alpine residents describe emotional weight of devastating fire: ‘Part of me burned there’

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June 6, 2024

How one Austin neighborhood paved the way for a culture of central air conditioning

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an illustration featuring a blue smiling cartoon toad from the side, facing left and smiling over a close-up of a map with various red and green lines and notations. the illustration also features two greenish-blue cartoon images of lollipops or suckers.
May 4, 2022

What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?

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May 29, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The birth of Balde González

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May 24, 2024

Family of Marine killed in Vietnam working on one final way to honor his legacy

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May 21, 2024

‘Part of our healing journey is making change’: Brett and Nikki Cross find solace in activism

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May 21, 2024

How ‘feisty’ Liz Carpenter shook things up as right-hand woman to LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson

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A photo of Tammie Sinclair at a desk.
May 20, 2024

‘Every day is different and it’s heavy’: The Uvalde library director on its role as an archive

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May 20, 2024

Music boxes of old play San Antonio history

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May 15, 2024

‘They are living legends’: The effort to preserve the rich history of the South Texas Negro League

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May 13, 2024

Tower Life building, jewel of San Antonio’s skyline and history, has stories to share with visitors

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May 10, 2024

South Texas ranch recognized as a refuge for slaves pursuing freedom

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May 8, 2024

Remembering Black Dallas revives forgotten history with new bus tours

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May 2, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The Dallas Sportatorium Burns

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The cover of "Texas Secessionists Standoff" features the silhouette of a person in a cowboy hat carrying a gun. In the background is a red-tinted image of a law enforcement officer on horseback.
April 30, 2024

New book digs into what happened during deadly Texas secessionist standoff 27 years ago

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October 7, 2020

Norfleet: The Texas rancher who kept on coming

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April 12, 2024

Dallas has a plan to preserve cultural landmarks in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods

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April 9, 2024

Dallas’ elusive ‘King of Diamonds’ jewel thief is subject of new book

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March 26, 2024

This week in Texas music history: The historic Galvan Ballroom opens up in Corpus Christi

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March 20, 2024

Today in Texas music history: The discovery of Spoon and revival of Johnny Cash

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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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A photo of an actor playing MLK in the new series. He wears a black preacher's robe and a cross is lit up on the wall behind him.
February 2, 2024

A Texas professor’s seminal work is the basis of ‘Genius: MLK/X’

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A photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis seen in orbit around a cloudy blue Earth, below.
January 16, 2024

New book tracks NASA’s Space Shuttle program – perhaps its ‘most important’ era thus far

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A sepia-toned photo shows a man in a tie and white buttoned-up shirt sitting with a pipe in one hand and a newspaper in the other. The photo is centered on a background featuring newspaper clippings.
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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