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History
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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September 8, 2022
When Queen Elizabeth II came to Texas, she met with 5 influential women in politics — but never LBJ
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August 31, 2022
Watch: The Battleship Texas journeys to Galveston for repairs
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August 30, 2022
Once thought to be unmovable, the Battleship Texas heads to Galveston for repairs
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August 17, 2022
This Austinite was born in Pakistan but never heard stories about partition. She’s trying to change that.
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July 27, 2016
The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat
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August 2, 2022
New book ‘Rag Radio Interviews’ showcases voices from era of underground newspapers – and beyond
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August 2, 2022
Uvalde considers how namesake of Robb Elementary should be remembered after the school is torn down
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November 25, 2016
Here’s What Texas Was Like During the Dust Bowl
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April 19, 2017
The One Musician To Get A Ticker-Tape Parade Was A Texan
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June 1, 2022
TCU research uncovers ‘indispensable’ contributions of formerly enslaved couple
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May 31, 2022
How a school walkout in Uvalde helped spark the 1970s Chicano rights movement
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May 27, 2022
Remembering a Texas soldier through the letters he left behind
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May 16, 2022
Millennium-old Mississippian art on display in Dallas at ‘Spirit Lodge’ exhibit
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May 9, 2022
San Antonio-based ‘Women and War’ oral history project captures complex legacy
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May 6, 2022
‘Bodies on the Line’ tells the stories of volunteers who escort patients seeking abortion care
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May 4, 2022
What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?
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May 4, 2022
Cultural traditions are highlighted and shared in new Texas Folklife program
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April 28, 2022
A San Antonio madam walks into a church… and turns her brothel into a rescue home
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April 27, 2022
A Mexican American madam blew the whistle on San Antonio’s illegal brothel fees. What happened to her?
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April 26, 2022
New biography goes beyond Camelot myth, looking at JFK’s foibles, flaws and ‘great potential’
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April 21, 2022
Archives of Richard and Doris Kearns Goodwin headed to UT’s Briscoe Center
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April 15, 2022
Home invasion: how one man experienced the 1997 Republic of Texas standoff
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April 14, 2022
How Mendez v. Westminster helped end legal segregation of schools in the southwest
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April 11, 2022
Oral history project preserves San Antonio’s West Side Sound
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April 5, 2022
Behind the guitar: A new collection of artifacts paints a more nuanced picture of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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March 31, 2022
Paint Rock art preservation project educates about indigenous culture in South Texas
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March 31, 2022
This Texan pioneered one of the earliest home computers: the TRS-80
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March 28, 2022
‘Raise Hell’ delves into the life of brilliant, outspoken rabble-rouser, Molly Ivins
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March 23, 2022
‘Viva Texas Rivers!’ celebrates the state’s storied waterways
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March 18, 2022
‘We didn’t want to be the last’: ‘Scared Fearless’ author looks back at early years of women in Secret Service
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March 17, 2022
New book examines educating children of Nazi scientists in El Paso schools
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March 7, 2022
Searching for Sam Houston’s mysterious graveside birthday visitor
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March 3, 2022
One of Austin’s first Black communities has largely been erased. This building tells its tale.
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February 17, 2022
The National Park Service is studying Houston-area Emancipation Trail for potential federal recognition
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February 11, 2022
Change is coming to Alamo Plaza – believe it or not
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February 9, 2022
An interactive exhibit uncovers Dallas’ colorful film-production legacy
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January 17, 2022
Students in Dallas MLK oratory competition mine inspiration from Dr. King’s life and words
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December 29, 2021
Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls
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December 28, 2021
Known for Roe v. Wade, Sarah Weddington’s advocacy included many issues important to women
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