Texas History
April 13, 2018
Newly Discovered Cemetery Vindicates Sugar Land Activist
Over 30 bodies have been discovered on a former prison farm in Fort Bend County.
Texas Historical Commission
Arts & Entertainment
March 2, 2012
Win the Weekend: Texas Historical Markers Turn Fifty
The Texas Historical Commission's markers are now eligible for their own plaque, Ron Paul and Sheila Jackson Lee are the Hill's best talkers, and the TCU drug bust was a bit pitiful.
Texas History
January 1, 2008
What a Crockett!
There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1998
Plaza Sweet
The remaking of a South Texas town.
Texas History
April 1, 1998
Forget the Alamo
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.
Texas History
August 31, 1996
Dig This
An archeological dig in Matagorda Bay unearths a bureaucratic feud.