It fetched $705,000, topping the list of about 165 items from Ted Lusher's Texana collection.
Just southeast of San Antonio, a rare European American dialect may be dying, or already dead. That’s a shame. Or is it?
J.P. Bryan, the embattled executive director of the TSHA, faces criticism for his approach to history—including recent history. He says he hasn’t seen evidence that the former president is a Christian.
A Plano woman wonders why so many small towns have so many big guns.
Andrew Braunberg, author of ‘Fires, Floods, Explosions, and Bloodshed: A History of Texas Whiskey,’ shares some fascinating details from his book.
The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.
It should be called F-T-B.
On T-shirts and bumper stickers, the flag that flew during the Texas Revolution has had its cannon replaced by an AR-15. Would our ancestors approve?
Texas’s elite police agency has evolved from a frontier organization to one famed for its expert interrogators. But some high-profile cases have tarnished that reputation.
Regarded by many Texans as a classic work of history, T. R. Fehrenbach’s ‘Lone Star’ contains racist ideas that shouldn’t be ignored.
The organization may have lost the right to manage the historical site, but key members still have a major influence on its future.
For more than fifty years, the state I call home has repeatedly surprised me. The Texas of 2023? Well, it’s got me thinking a lot about how far we have, and haven’t, come.
At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.
The truth is more nuanced, and more instructive, than the myth.
An Amarillo man is unhappy that the iconic banners no longer fly in front of the Texas Travel Information Centers.
Two academics published an opinion article in Texas Monthly titled “What the 1836 Project Leaves Out.” But they’re the ones who left out facts inconvenient to their narrative.
As rains fall across Texas, remember the 1976 Houston deluge that improbably shut down an Astros game at the famed “weather-proof” Astrodome.
I’ve lived in Uvalde for thirteen years. Our community is more complex and nuanced than media portrayals suggest.
The seventh-generation Texan is roaming the state in her van, registering voters—and digging into her family's history in the long struggle for voting rights.
How a simple, two-chord song written by an Iowan became (clap clap clap clap) our unofficial state anthem.
The 1981 slasher spoof prominently features Houston and a future Texas politician, but that’s not all that’s notable about it.
Decades after the Wichita County town saved its stadium from an oilman’s plan to drill at midfield, the structure has been condemned—after pipes once donated by oil companies rusted out.
The incident serves as a reminder that, over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered.
A talented infielder and a strong hitter who played around the world, he created an early iteration of the protective gear that now keeps baseball players safe.
His almost superhuman exploits made him one of the West's most feared lawmen. Today, the legendary deputy U.S. marshal is widely believed to be the real Lone Ranger. But his true legacy is even greater.
A Houston exhibit of images scavenged from junk shops and flea markets offers a view of the past that anticipates the present.
George McJunkin found a prehistoric bison skeleton that upended theories about human existence in the Americas.
Happy two-hundredth birthday, Stephen F. Austin. You were the Father of Texas—and more.
His wives! His lives! A bountiful birthday guide to Sam Houston, Texas’ ultimate hero.
She started out as a wide-eyed Waco cowgirl and ended up a New York speakeasy queen.
Descendants of famous Texans like Sam Houston and Davy Crockett don’t even try to fill their forefathers’ shoes. They just do their best to keep them polished.
If you think Texas is pretty much the same as it was ten years ago, you’re wrong. Nineteen seventy-three remade the state overnight.
When it comes to flops and fiascos, Texans can outdo anyone.