Texas History
February 21, 2023
Pop Quiz: What Inspired the “Tex Education” Quiz?
Long before quizzes littered the internet, TM’s Anne Dingus delighted readers with a hundred-question series that doubled as a “CliffsNotes of Texas history.”
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Bum Steers
January 1, 2005
Rounding Up the Steers
Senior editor Anne Dingus on the Bum Steers traditions and mocking those other Simpsons.
Bum Steers
January 1, 2001
Bum Deal
Executive editor Paul Burka and senior editor Anne Dingus tell the story behind January's cover story, "The 2001 Bum Steer Awards".
Style & Design
May 31, 1997
Wore Stories
For her history of Texas fashion (see “The Way We Wore”), senior editor Anne Dingus began with—who else?—Sam Houston. “He’s always a good place to start,” she says, “and he distinguished himself by being sartorially flamboyant.” Then, drawing on library research and her personal archive of vintage postcards, ads,