Sports
October 13, 2017
Let’s Hope This Year’s TX-OU Game Doesn’t Repeat the 1947 Game
The last time the Longhorns and Sooners faced off with brand new coaches, the game led into a riot.
Texas History
Sports
October 13, 2017
Let’s Hope This Year’s TX-OU Game Doesn’t Repeat the 1947 Game
The last time the Longhorns and Sooners faced off with brand new coaches, the game led into a riot.
Texas History
October 9, 2017
UT Tower Victims Reflect on the Shooting in Las Vegas
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
Texas History
September 29, 2017
The Heyday of Chili Con Carne
The official state dish reached its apotheosis in the era of San Antonio’s Chili Queens.
Texas History
September 20, 2017
The Battle For El Paso’s South Side
With the south side of El Paso up for grabs, everyone seems to have an idea about what the city’s future should look like.
Texas History
September 16, 2017
A Texas Homage to Amelia Earhart’s Around-the-World Flight
Brian Lloyd flew his plane 28,000 miles along Earhart's intended course.
The Daily Post
August 22, 2017
Texas Castles in the Twentieth Century
Dream of building your own medieval fortress? You aren’t alone.
Texas History
August 21, 2017
Removing Confederate Monuments Won’t Erase History, But Could Correct It
The revisionist history behind Confederate monuments.
Texas History
August 4, 2017
Montrose Is Dead. Long Live Montrose?
A requiem for Houston’s coolest neighborhood.
Uncategorized
July 10, 2017
Wonderful Political Tales for Beach Reading
If you’re trying to knock off some last minute summer beach time before the special session begins, you might want some fairly light fare of Texas politics and history.
Texas History
June 14, 2017
The Battle of Sam Houston’s Statue
What would Sam Houston think of this troll job turned full-blown circus?
Uncategorized
June 8, 2017
Poncho Nevárez, The New Sam Houston?
Looking at the historical parallels between a Sam Houston scuffle and the recent incident with Poncho Nevárez and Matt Rinaldi.
Texas History
June 5, 2017
The Return of Jefferson Davis
Over a year after its removal from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Mall, the controversial Jefferson Davis statue has found a new home on campus.
The Daily Post
May 18, 2017
Beauty in the Forgotten
In the search for the perfect dive bar, a writer discovered another hidden gem—the Mosheim school.
Texas History
April 16, 2017
Remembering the Texas City Explosion
Seventy years after the deadliest industrial disaster in American history, a Houston filmmaker unites the survivors.
Texas History
March 31, 2017
Watch Robert Earl Keen and Randy Rogers Swap Songs and Talk John T. Floore’s
The honky-tonk celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary with two Texas country icons.
Texas History
February 23, 2017
The Dark Prince
Memories of the future at a long-gone Dallas hamburger joint.
Texas History
February 9, 2017
Say It Ain’t So, Davy
The truth hurts, as historians discovered when they broke the news that Crockett surrendered.
Music
January 24, 2017
Randy Rogers Takes the Reins at Cheatham Street Warehouse
To honor the lifework of his ”musical father,” Texas country star Randy Rogers purchases the historic honky-tonk that launched his career.
Texas History
December 21, 2016
Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
A seizure of sombreros in San Antonio.
Texas History
December 21, 2016
Blood and Sugar
Can one very determined man get a booming Houston suburb to confront its troubled past?
The Alamo
December 5, 2016
My Grandfather Air-Conditioned the Alamo. Now the Building Is Crumbling, and It’s All His Fault
Well, sort of.
Texas History
November 18, 2016
The Capitol’s African-American Monument Will Be Unveiled the Same Day as a White Lives Matter Protest
The organizers of the White Lives Matter protest say they aren’t targeting the monument, but it’s hard to overlook the coincidence.
Texas History
November 3, 2016
New Image of Davy Crockett Discovered in Fort Worth Museum
A sighting of the image on UNT's Portal to Texas History website prompted the discovery.
Texas History
October 27, 2016
How Mermaids Could Save San Marcos
It's been decades since San Marcos's famed Aquamaids performed, but San Marcos is reviving the mermaid as a symbol of cultural identity and environmental protection.
Texas History
October 12, 2016
New York’s Paramount Building Is Freezing Its Clock To Honor UT Tower Shooting Victims
A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
Texas History
October 7, 2016
A 1957 Porsche Speedster That Spent The Last 40 Years Under A Tarp In A Garage Is Going To Auction
If you’ve got a quarter million dollars, get on it.
Texas History
October 6, 2016
Proposed Mexican-American Heritage Textbook Is A Continuation Of The Problem With U.S. History Classes
When U.S. history is already whitewashed, a book about Mexican-Americans that relies on stereotypes only does more harm.
Texas History
September 22, 2016
The Texas Connection to The Iconic Photo of V-J Day in Times Square
Longview lawyer Howard Coghlan, who identified himself in the photograph, passed away at 89.
Texas History
September 21, 2016
Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
A big bag o' cats in Austin.
Media
September 9, 2016
Let’s Talk About That San Antonio Mattress Store’s 9/11 Ad
Miracle Mattress's 9/11 ad didn't go over well, to say the very least.
Politics & Policy
July 20, 2016
The Texas Connection To Turkey’s Failed Coup
Turkish leaders are blaming Fethullah Gulen, a man with deep ties to Texas’s largest charter school system, for the attempted takeover.
Texas History
June 30, 2016
The Murder Of Vincent Vallone
A restauranteur's death in 1949 was also the end of the short-lived Houston Mafia.
Texas History
June 22, 2016
The Other Border War
Why is the federal government claiming thousands of acres of riverfront property from a bunch of North Texas landowners?
Texas History
June 20, 2016
So Long, Little Dogies
The great trail drives head for the last roundup.
Texas History
June 16, 2016
Off Course
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
Texas History
June 16, 2016
The Twilight of the Texas Rangers
Are the legendary lawmen necessary? Yes, but their inability to grapple with the modern world threatens to make them irrelevant.
Music
June 15, 2016
His Mickey Mouse Ways
In a world full of evil dudes pretending to be good guys, Waylon Jennings was a good guy pretending to be an evil dude and never quite succeeding.
Texas History
June 13, 2016
Bane of the Baptists
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
Texas History
June 3, 2016
The Apostle of the Devil
The aftermath of the recent rape scandal at Baylor is shocking, but the fallout isn't a first for the Waco school.
Texas History
May 27, 2016
The Regency Bridge
Outside San Saba stands the last Texas suspension span still open to traffic.
Texas History
May 26, 2016
Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
Veggie tales from Brownsville in the early twentieth century.
Texas History
May 20, 2016
The Lyndon Johnson Show
All the Way playwright Robert Schenkkan on Donald Trump, George Wallace, and why Bryan Cranston makes a great LBJ.
Texas History
April 20, 2016
The Opera of Emeline
How one woman’s fight for freedom inspired Houston’s lawyers and artists more than a century and a half later.
Texas History
April 12, 2016
A Woman’s Place Is In Kitchen History
What kolaches, African-American cooking, and chili queens can teach us about women’s influence on Texas cuisine.
Texas History
March 22, 2016
With a Pistol in My Hand
Guns have always been part of my life, and I’ve never forgotten the lesson I learned the first time I fired one.
Texas History
February 24, 2016
Rough Rider
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.