Founded as far back as 1886, these barbecue joints laid the foundation for the pitmasters of today—and what they’re serving is as delicious today as it was in centuries past.
Plus: a trip to Ruby City and a podcast that will spice up your weeknights.
Veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio’s latest book is a crowd-pleasing account of heated political battles in Texas over the past 150 years. But does it get the big picture right?
How a Texas Ranger’s personal mythology came to be accepted as popular history.
I’ve always observed Juneteenth, but this year the stakes feel higher than ever.
The “ridiculous scroll” didn’t top the structure until after the Battle of the Alamo.
Prepare for a tale of blackface minstrelsy and swashbuckling high seas adventures, a whodunit with the last page maddeningly ripped out.
Longview lawyer Howard Coghlan, who identified himself in the photograph, passed away at 89.
As the doors to Cuban travel slowly re-open, the author’s dad recalls his epic road/cruise ship trip to Havana just before Castro’s take-over, and we remember Castro’s hero’s welcome in Houston a few months later.
As Houston basketball fans mourn the end of the Rockets season, we remember the efforts of one of the team’s all-time greats.
Don’t invite a history buff to your "Texas Rising" viewing party.
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
The Golden Globe-nominated film about the Civil Rights Movement is the subject of some unexpected controversy regarding its depiction of the relationship between Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson.
'Booming Austin Fears It Will Lose Its Charms' is a story that could be—and has been—written any number of times over the past 30+ years, the evidence shows.
Journalist Chris Tomlinson delves into the parallel histories of two Texas families with the same last name—one black, one white.
At 94 years old, debate icon Thomas Freeman has taught everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Barbara Jordan.
How a lowly cut of beef—breaded, spiced, and fried to order—was transformed into a vessel for the modern food system.
Half a century ago, the women’s basketball team at Wayland Baptist College set an extraordinary record that may never be broken: the longest winning streak in sports history.
In search of the authentic spirit of Fort Worth.
Kansas stakes a claim to the "World's Original Indoor Rodeo" title, a crown Fort Worth has worn since 1918.
Bobby Jackson has taught students in the Aransas County school district about the Plains Indians, the Battle of San Jacinto, and Spindletop since the state celebrated its sesquicentennial. How he does it bears no resemblance to the class I took when I was stuck in middle school.
The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.
The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.
“All you’ve got is a famous name,” a Republican operative told George W. Bush. But six years later he was governor, and six years after that he was president. And six years after that, his place in history—not to mention the fate of the world—is a little uncertain.
Did domestic protests end the U.S.-Mexican War?
Catching up with our leading unsentimentalist.
Karey Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes have finally completed their life’s work, a massive three-volume history of the quilts of Texas, from 1836 to the present. Here are ten that tell the story of quilting—and our state.
From the old-style models to the three-story turbines, windmills are a part of Texas history. The machine's evolution is on display in Lubbock at the world's largest windmill museum.
A new Crockett biography by Michael Wallis weighs in on how Davy died.
IntroductionYes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we’d say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so’s you’d know it. I come from an immigrant family. Although my father sounded like Harry Truman and freely used phrases like “Haven’t had so much fun since the hogs ate
A trip through South Texas in search of the ghosts of borders past—and a vision for what comes next.
The author of The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream talks about peddling history and more.
A new novel by Ann Weisgarber.
On her new novel, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and more.
Happy Texas Independence Day! Read five stories about our state's history, including this piece about the battlegrounds of Texas, which tell an incredible story of struggle, sorrow, triumph, and terror.
What the late LBJ confidant Jack Valenti remembered about the longest day of his life.
José Cisneros, the legendary illustrator of the Spanish Southwest, is 96, almost blind, and nearly deaf. And, of course, he has no plans to put down his pen.
One groundbreaker, one Ranger. A story from Texas Ranger Christine Nix in her own words.
That would be 75-year-old Robert Hughes, who has amassed more victories while coaching in Fort Worth than anyone in high school basketball history. For most people, that would be enough.
Master of the Senate, Robert Caro's third volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson, is an exhaustive study of power, persuasion, and private parts.
Rereading John Graves
Sorry, T. R. Fehrenbach: the new Texas historians don’t care about Davy Crockett or other old icons. To them, the real heroes are women, blacks, and yes, Mexican Americans.
Who was Jesse James—really? And where is he buried?
The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas.
Ninety-four years after the Goliad Tornado killed 114 people, why do we still ignore the warnings until it’s too late? A reflection on Texas’ worst twisters.
If you can’t get enough of creepy character actor Christopher Walken, boot up The Darkening, one of this year’s CD-ROM releases from Austin’s Origin Systems. Walken, like John Hurt and Amanda Pays, plays one of the fifty characters who meet up with the game’s hero, an amnesiac who roams the
Dome, sweet dome.
New York fireman Bill Groneman is disputing a critical piece of Alamo lore—and historians everywhere are burning mad.
