How Wealthy Texans Helped Create Joe McCarthy
The infamous anti-Communist senator had a lot of fans in the Lone Star State.
The infamous anti-Communist senator had a lot of fans in the Lone Star State.
The discovery of a convict graveyard in 2018 vindicated decades of research and activism Fort Bend County had ignored.
Recent attempts to abolish the holiday have failed. But things might be different when lawmakers return to Austin in January.
The removal of the statue is part of a larger reappraisal of the role of the Rangers in Texas history.
Student athletes wrote a letter urging officials to change the tune, which was first performed in a minstrel show.
The community has united to save the 73-year-old cinema and venue, which did not qualify for federal relief funding.
‘Cult of Glory' upends decades of mythmaking.
In 1942, the women of Borger protested their exclusion from the town’s barbecue cook-offs. Then a mysterious challenger emerged.
Play with clay and learn about an important figure from Texas history.
In the aftermath of tragedy, members of the Caddo Nation are drawing on their culture and traditions to help restore Caddo Mounds State Historic Site.
In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?
After the Civil War, a group of politicians fought—and failed—to empower everyday Texans. But we can see their influence in the New Deal, the Great Society, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders.
Coleman’s extraordinary life and career deserves to be celebrated in the canon of U.S. history.
Through strolls along pedestrian bridges and historically black neighborhoods, local historians are elevating black Dallasites’ stories.
He was a notorious deal maker known for bringing priceless pieces of Texas history back to the state. He was also a suspected forger and arsonist. Thirty years ago, he was found dead in the Colorado River near Austin, and to this day a question remains: Could John Holmes Jenkins
On the National Podcast of Texas, the coauthor of ‘A Black Women’s History of the United States’ lays out the ways black women transformed America.
Installation artist Mark Dion displays his findings in a tongue-in-cheek Fort Worth museum exhibition.
It was a long, eventful year.
A visit to the Zwolle Tamale Fiesta and Los Adaes, where our state’s Spanish colonial roots live on just across the Sabine River.
’The Immortal Alamo’ says much about the silent film era, and how San Antonio could have been Hollywood.
Thirty years after opening, the museum approaches its dark history from an increasingly detached remove.
Roy Knight Jr. was killed in action in Vietnam, and his remains were missing for decades. Now his family has finally found closure.
Ray Gene, proprietor of Longview’s singular It’ll Do Tavern, passed away last weekend.
The institution has changed its mission to also acknowledge traumas experienced by other groups.
The Austin author on his fascination with H.L. Hunt, his inability to hate Santa Anna, and how he met the challenges of writing a history of Texas for the twenty-first century.
Stephen Harrigan’s ’Big Wonderful Thing’ sweeps away decades of mythmaking. Are we ready to remember the Alamo—and the Texas Rangers and the Civil War—differently?
In the early twentieth century, long-simmering tensions in South Texas erupted into a grim and brutal race war.
After breaking away from Mexico, the combative Republic of Texas took its fight against Native Americans to the heart of Comanchería, led by a group of militiamen who called themselves Rangers.
As the Civil War violently divided the nation, Texan turned against Texan.
For years, the great folklorist convinced many scholars and activists that the vaunted “Texas Man of Letters” was an anti-Mexican racist. Maybe it’s time to reconsider that judgment—as Paredes himself eventually did.
While a new generation of scholars is rewriting our history, supporters of the traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.
The Lewisville music festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend.
A brief history of one of our most beloved (and endangered) cultural institutions.
Twenty years on, the band is Texas’s most subliminally recognizable export.
The Fort Davis historian and raconteur knew and loved Texas and its people like no one else.
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