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114 stories
Dig This »
An archeological dig in Matagorda Bay unearths a bureaucratic feud.
September 1996 by Brad Tyer
The Fourth Tramp »
A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new.
April 1996 by Gregory Curtis
State of Mind »
On February 19, 1846, the flag was lowered on the Republic of Texas for the last time. Here’s a look back at what was our national interest, and all that it might have been.
February 1996 by Paul Burka
Masquerader of The Lost Ark »
Who came first—Indiana Jones of Hollywood or Vendyl Jones of Arlington, the archaeologist who has spent years trying to dig up the fabled Ark of the Covenant?
August 1992 by Mark Seal
The Lost Tribe »
They were the classic Texas Indians—fierce, majestic, and free. Today’s Comanches find their lives defined by legends and bitter truths.
February 1989 by Stephen Harrigan
Behind the Lines »
The sixth floor.
April 1988 by Gregory Curtis
Texas Primer: Barbed Wire »
It spelled the end of the open range and the beginning of modern Texas.
March 1984 by Anne Dingus
The Sons of the Pioneers »
Miles from their nearest neighbors, beset by drought, debt, insects, and government, Panhandle farmers gamble everything to keep alive a tradition they can’t abandon.
September 1978 by Richard West
Who Was Jack Ruby? »
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
November 1975 by Gary Cartwright
Why Dallas? »
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
December 1973
Mother of the Decade »
Lee Harvey Oswald's mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie's shadow.
November 1973 by Alexander Cockburn
Sam Houston, Warts and All »
A good woman finally marries the wild frontier man and saves him from himself. Manifestly destiny.
July 1973 by Bill Porterfield
Farewell to LBJ: A Hill Country Valediction »
Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon
himself.
May 1973 by Bill Porterfield
Liz Carpenter, Journalist, Author and LBJ staffer (Thursday, January 27th 2005)
Liz Carpenter spoke with Texas Monthly Talks in 2005, sharing stories of a very rich life. Join us to hear her tales of six decades spent watching Washington, her passion for mixing humor with politics, her memories of the Kennedys and the Johnsons and the most famous 58 words she wrote.
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