This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the trip that changed the world: the Apollo 11 moon landing. Texas Monthly has written about Texas’s role in the space program for decades, and our July collector’s issue combines the best of our archives with new perspectives on the final frontier.
Fifty years after man walked on the Moon, mankind is still stranded on Earth. That’s not the way it was supposed to be.
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
America finds inspiration and salvation on the moon—and then keeps going.
Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
We should honor this badass Medal of Honor winner, not an incompetent Confederate general who fought against the United States government in defense of slavery.
What should be done with the historic dreadnought once it’s relocated from its longtime home?
In ‘Spying on the South,’ the author of the bestselling ‘Confederates in the Attic’ offers a few pungent opinions about the Lone Star State.
First of all, it memorializes a parking garage.
A segregated school for Mexican American children until 1965, the building now serves as a community center and celebration of Hispanic life.
The historian and author on how we reassess past presidencies and when he believes we’ll have enough perspective to begin judging Trump's.
The 41st president was described as his own best press secretary—especially with the Texas media.
Dallas billionaire Ross Perot often is miscast as a spoiler in the election that saw Bill Clinton replace George H.W Bush in the White House.
It was a funeral marked far more often by humor than by maudlin sentiment.
The 41st president was the oldest living former president in the history of the United States
The 41st president's death comes less than eight months after that of his wife, Barbara.
The former president held a conversation with former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, with whom he found much common ground.
Plano Representative Sam Johnson kept two artifacts from those dark days that now belong to the Smithsonian.
After discovering the convict cemetery in March, the city appointed a panel of stakeholders. Now it’s ignoring their recommendation.
With the state fair in full swing and the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners teeing it up in the Cotton Bowl, we start our series in Dallas.
A committee is recommending that the State Board of Education cut the word from the school curriculum standards because it is ’value-charged.’
In a city notorious for neglecting its history, two new initiatives aim to preserve memories of the storm.
The Richmond resident warned Fort Bend ISD of the presence of graves, but no one listened—until they started finding human remains.
Five decades ago, Myrtis Dightman broke the color barrier in professional rodeo and became one of the best bull riders who ever lived. But his imprint on the sport was only just beginning.
Presidents past and present, as well as leaders from across the political spectrum, mourn the death of the former first lady.
She was only the second woman in U.S. history to have been married to one president and the mother of a second president.
As I have aged and faced my own challenges as a female on this planet, I have come to a different understanding of Barbara Bush.
In an announcement, the former first lady has decided against any further medical treatment and will focus on comfort care.
Over 30 bodies have been discovered on a former prison farm in Fort Bend County.
How an African-American family managed to rise to prominence during the height of Jim Crow-era segregation.
The city that gave birth to the republic continues to nourish the traits that distinguish the state’s character.
Thousands of Houstonians turned out to get a last look at the Astrodome before its renovation.
A decade after the largest custody battle in U.S. history, some of those involved speak about their memories.
A quarter century after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers died outside Waco, retired FBI agent Byron Sage still can't stop thinking—and arguing—about what happened.
Remembering "The Alamo" through souvenir shot glasses, John Wayne toilet paper, and the family that brought the 1960 classic to Texas.
Welcome to chunking territory.
The New York resident flew to Austin to celebrate LBJ-style.
It's better than good—at least if you're talking about cotton quality.
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced a commemoration of the Battle of the Alamo that includes the historically questionable John Wayne movie.
Prepositionally, you can go over or out to Abilene—depending on where you're coming from.
New books from Roger D. Hodge and Bryan Mealer draw an unsparing portrait of rural Texas.
Ours is a land of resourceful, imaginative, inventive, and self-reliant people. It has always been this way.
Can a 1960s novel with a cult following finally become the blockbuster film its fans believe it should be?
The recent release of JFK files is probably the last significant injection of new information into the psychic landscape in which assassination theorists like Mark North have resided for the past 54 years.
Looking back at a crucial weekend seen as the high-water mark of the 1970s women’s movement
A brief look at the unique world of JFK auctions.
The HOA wasn’t the only foe that Tony Buzbee and his tank, Cheyenne, faced in the Battle of River Oaks Boulevard.
Most of it was pretty lackluster, but there were a few interesting tidbits.
The last time the Longhorns and Sooners faced off with brand new coaches, the game led into a riot.
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
