History

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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A long, tan building is seen. It's viewed from across the street and off to the side so the entrance and the side of the building is seen. This is the Aztec Building, where the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum is now housed.
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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A wide shot of a big, white wooden building with a lush green lawn.
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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A wide shot of a big, white wooden building with a lush green lawn.
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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Closeup of a white frame school building with a peaked roof.
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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A grainy black and white photo shows five young mean in t-shirts and jeans posing with golf clubs. A man who may be their coach, kneels in the center.
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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A headshot of Neha Aziz and an illustration of the podcast art. The illustration shows two hands touching over the subcontinent.
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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People in a radio studio, seated for an interview
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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A picture of a soldier wearing a camouflage helmet is superimposed on a background feature a stack of letters.
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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A solider outdoors in fatigues with green paint on her face
May 9, 2022

San Antonio-based ‘Women and War’ oral history project captures complex legacy

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cover of the book, "Bodies on the Line"
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

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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two people gaze at one another in a wedding photo
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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