History

Traveling Texas by…Dog?

Texas has always attracted its share of odd people, and Bill Brown was no exception. Brown, shown here with ... Read More »

About 50 miles south of downtown Dallas on Interstate 35—when the strip malls of the metroplex give way to ... Read More »

If some of Texas’ historic bank-turned-hotel walls could talk, they would tell stories of wealth and loss. Tales ... Read More »

As we creep into spooky season, and haunted houses and general scary-ment are in full swing, it’s time for us to ... Read More »

Port Arthur is known to some for petrochemicals, Gulf Coast hurricanes, and being the hometown of rock star Janis ... Read More »

A little more than a mile from where Dallas founder John Neely Bryan’s reconstructed cabin marks the first ... Read More »

"Slinging” Sammy Baugh, pictured here as quarterback for the Washington Redskins (now Commanders), embodied ... Read More »

The drums are first. I’ve never been able to figure out if the drums echo my heartbeat or if my heart races to ... Read More »

Nearly 90 years ago, an advertisement ran in the Austin American-Statesman for a commemorative coin that would ... Read More »

Billy Mays would lean over his end of the shuffleboard table and pick up a metal-and-plastic puck. With one fluid ... Read More »

Locked Up Museums in historic jail buildings display the history of Texas crime and punishment By Robyn RossOld ... Read More »

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