Owens Salvage in the Panhandle Pays Homage to the Heyday of the Hot Rod
putters through his salvage yard in a beat-up truck on a bright October day. He is surveying the hundreds of ... Read More »
The Gault Site in Central Texas Reveals New Details About the Oldest North Americans
Heading west from Georgetown, away from the crowded Interstate 35 corridor, the countryside turns green with ... Read More »
The Tex-Mex Christmas Tradition of Tamales
Photo courtesy San Antonio Light, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections Stocking up ... Read More »
The History of Pioneer Female Pilots Soars at the National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater
The trailblazing Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs), had to prove themselves twice—as the military’s first ... Read More »
Remembering the Migration of Freed Slaves on the Emancipation Trail
The Benson cabin is showing its age. Thought to be one of Galveston County’s oldest existing structures at over ... Read More »
You Don’t Need To Go to New York to See the Statue of Liberty
Best French contribution to American culture? That’s a toughie: french fries or the Statue of Liberty? The ... Read More »
Finding Isolation on Pinto Canyon Road in West Texas
Even today, Pinto Canyon Road in the Chinati Mountains of far West Texas is a lonely place. So we can only ... Read More »
Roadside Oddity: The Lone Grave in Hearne
If you’ve ever traveled through East Central Texas—say, from Austin or Dallas to College Station—you’ve probably ... Read More »
Did an East Texas Preacher Beat the Wright Brothers Into the Sky?
The turn of the 20th century was a time of technological dreams. The harnessing of petroleum had spawned the ... Read More »
A Brief History of the Rise and Rise of Texas Skyscrapers
The recent announcement that construction will soon begin on Texas’ tallest skyscraper came as a surprise to ... Read More »
New Alamo Statues Featuring African Americans Tell A More Complete Story of the Texas Revolution
When Lubbock-based sculptor Eddie Dixon received a phone call about sculpting a statue for the Alamo, the caller ... Read More »
The Comanche Trail in Big Bend Recalls a Bygone Era of Tribal Raids into Mexico
The final months of summer were both the best and worst parts of the year in the Big Bend country during the ... Read More »
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