Ken Burns’s ‘The American Buffalo’ Isn’t Really About Bison
It’s about the violence that white settlers wrought upon the West—and the path to redemption.
It’s about the violence that white settlers wrought upon the West—and the path to redemption.
Plus, a harrowing vehicular encounter with a spear and a harrowing vehicular encounter with a cornfield.
The famously powerful dreadnought was hailed by Hemingway and played a key role in several famous battles.
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum offers an insightful exhibit on the 1960s lunch counter protests that helped desegregate Texas.
Beans in chili, the Houston Oilers, and mutton busting: test your knowledge of all things Texan.
Set to open this spring, CoHousing Houston is almost sold out. Its founders hope to build a community where Texans feel supported by their neighbors.
The State Fair kicks off today. We celebrated by checking in with the big man himself.
It took her almost four years.
Trick-shot professionals could practice a shot like this for years and never land it as cleanly as the Gordon Longhorns kicker.
The newly renovated Texas Science and Natural History Museum (formerly the Texas Memorial Museum) opens September 23.
It sounds extreme, but so is our weather.
A New York man wants to know the best place to live in Texas, weather-wise, and an Austin man asks for some cold-treat recommendations.
Plus, expired paperwork brought a great westward journey to an end, and an interdimensional portal did not open.
After washing up on the coast of Wales, she was nursed back to health, flown home to Texas, and then released in Galveston.
Growing up in Georgia, I wanted nothing more than to be a Texan. When I finally moved here, I learned what that really meant.
The California parent of a UT freshman wonders about Bevo’s ultimate fate when the final whistle blows.
Mike Capron never felt comfortable until he settled west of the Pecos River.
The Grapevine-raised pop star and collectibles enthusiast has taken his fandom to a whole new level.
The early blues singer helped define the genre and achieved major success—until a story of murder tainted his legacy.
The li’l guy went missing a week ago. Whoever finds him is going to be rich (in barbecue, gift cards, and pie).
Is the misspelling on the billboard promoting the Temple store a typo, a stunt intended to go viral, or a secret third thing?
A Plano woman wonders why so many small towns have so many big guns.
Plus, a woman sank her teeth into a Lufkin security guard, and a family of ducks sank without a trace.
The San Antonio museum is delighting Texans (and finding new fans nationwide) on the new social media platform.
Joe Jones has amassed millions of followers on social media, but the only thing he’s keeping track of is laughs.
It’s time to find out just how much you know about the Lone Star State.
Current and former staff members, along with her subjects, share memories of working with the revered “wild card” shutterbug.
Six years ago, the mother of all storms arrived and brought home a lesson too many of us have refused to learn: our penchant for bravely adapting to circumstances has its limits.
Plus, a Houston bakery added a family-size croissant to its menu and a man fleeing from the police decided he was really, really hungry.
She led the movement to gain federal recognition of the holiday. This June 19, she’ll again walk 2.5 miles, marking the 2.5 years it took for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Texas.
A Weatherford man says we need to channel our penchant for lying into something productive—or at least entertaining.
An exclusive excerpt from Texas Monthly’s new book, ‘Lone Stars Rising,’ reevaluates the legacy of the former governor and president.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bird crashing into a plane!
While the Kyle Fair’s Guinness World Record attempt fell short, it was a fun, absurd celebration of a much-maligned name.
In Fort Worth, true crime–obsessed citizen detectives have banded together to dig up new evidence for their pet cases.
The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.
The Geto Boys and Selena set the stage in the early nineties for the transformation of Texas music.
An Austin man wants to know whether Austin’s Scholz Garten or San Antonio’s Menger Bar can claim the title of oldest continually operating bar in the state.
Plus, a man and his parrot made the scene at Whataburger, and someone really, really wanted to catch a Megan Thee Stallion show.
He's from California, but we're still proud of him and his namesake.
Charismatic German immigrant Hans Nagel revolutionized the Houston Zoo and kept it afloat during the Great Depression.
As I untangled Chris’s affairs, I discovered a trove of books, letters, and unarticulated love.
Friedrich Ernst’s missive portrayed Texas as a paradise. His wife and daughter begged to differ.
In the eighties, petroleum prices went through the roof, and Texans, flush with cash, went a little crazy—before it all came crashing down. Will we ever learn?
A New Mexico resident is puzzled by all the female Jimmies and Johnnies.
Author John Phillip Santos’s 2010 “Tejano elegy” explores family secrets that reveal “the deepest mysteries of being human.”
Are you ready to test your knowledge of all things Texan?
Plus, somebody slapped an H-E-B employee and nobody opened a satanic-themed hotel in Plano.
A nightmarish scene in Larry McMurtry’s epic novel triggered my unshakable—and completely illogical—fear of snakes.
The festival celebrates Earth, community, and the primal urge to build the tallest rock pile ever.