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Abraham Zapruder »
How much did Life pay Abraham Zapruder for the rights to his assassination film?
November 1998 by Anne Dingus
Go Ask Alice »
Fifty years ago LBJ won—some say stole—a U.S. Senate runoff. What happened to the South Texas ballot box that saved his career?
November 1998 by Pamela Colloff
The Assassination at 35 »
A handsome young president, a convertible limousine, a sniper, three shots (we think);and our lives were changed forever. A special report on what is, for many, the defining event of the past fifty years.
November 1998
Unconventional »
From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas.
August 1998 by Joe Holley
Pa Ferguson »
Why was the former governor Pa Ferguson nicknamed Farmer Jim?
June 1998 by Anne Dingus
Flag Poll »
Flag Poll Which state has the best—and best-known—banner? Texas, of course.
May 1998 by Steve Chapman
Forget the Alamo »
Sorry, T.R. Fehrenbach: The new Texas historians don’t care about Davy Crockett or other old icons. To them, the real heroes are women, blacks, and yes, Mexican Americans.
April 1998 by Debbie Nathan
Statues of Limitations »
Which version of history should be promoted by El Paso’s new statue series: the Wild West or the mild West?
April 1998 by John Morthland
Historical Friction »
Conflicting accounts of the killing of German immigrants in the Hill Country during the Civil War are creating a certain amount of dis-Comfort.
October 1997 by Helen Thorpe
King Fishy »
A history mystery involving ranching’s King family.
September 1997 by Anne Dingus
Body of Evidence »
Who was Jesse James—really? And where is he buried?
August 1997 by Anne Dingus
The First Protester »
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
June 1997 by Gregory Curtis
Out There »
For seven days Rick McLaren and his armed cohorts were holed up in their Republic of Texas “embassy” while reporters dug for stories, lawmen kept watch, and the residents of nearby Fort Davis wished they’d all go away.
June 1997 by Joe Nick Patoski
The Way We Wore »
From buckskin to polyester, a look at 166 years of Texas fashion that doesn’t skirt the issues.
June 1997 by Anne Dingus
Babe Didrikson »
Which sports did Babe Didrikson dominate, and in what Hepburn-Tracy film did she appear?
June 1997 by Anne Dingus
Death and Texas »
After its recent facelift, the state cemetery has Texas luminaries just dying to get in.
May 1997 by Carol Flake
Ship Shape »
A South Texan adds a chapter to the Apollo 13 story.
May 1997 by Patricia Busa McConnico
The Death of Travis »
In an excerpt from Michael Lind’s epic poem The Alamo, a hero of the revolution falls in the fight for freedom.
March 1997 by Michael Lind
Susanna Dickinson »
How did Susanna Dickinson survive the Battle of the Alamo, and who played her in John Wayne’s movie?
March 1997 by Anne Dingus
The Forgotten People »
For three centuries the Kickapoo Indians moved from place to place across North America to avoid assimilation. Today they live on the outskirts of Eagle Pass: unwelcome, yet unwilling to give up the fight to preserve their culture.
February 1997
Sleepy Teepees »
The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas.
December 1996 by Joe Holley
Back to the Future »
A trip through South Texas in search of the ghosts of borders past—and a vision for what comes next.
November 2010 by John Phillip Santos
A Whitman Sampler »
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
September 1996 by Joe Holley
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