History

Cockfighting Flourished in Texas in the Early 1900s

Cockfighting goes back to ancient times when cultures including the Greeks and Persians pitted roosters against ... Read More »

Old Tunnel State Park sits on a brush-covered limestone ridge that divides the watersheds of the Guadalupe and ... Read More »

Plans were already in the works for a new Texas Capitol when a fire burned its predecessor in 1881. To ... Read More »

Step inside the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart and you’re immediately met by an “old library” scent—woody, ... Read More »

The small crowd that witnessed the first flight of John Valentine Pliska’s airplane likely held its collective ... Read More »

Sixty years ago this April, NASA broke ground near Clear Lake to construct a new command post for manned space ... Read More »

Everett Gee Jackson didn’t plan to become an artist. Born in Mexia in 1900, Jackson enrolled at Texas A&M ... Read More »

While saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s pioneering style won him a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2007, the early ... Read More »

Spring is livestock show season in Texas. Across the state, folks gather to compete for bragging rights when it ... Read More »

The Beaton Hotel in Corsicana was once the largest hotel between Houston and Dallas. Corsicana native Ralph Beaton ... Read More »

It’s not a long hike to the top of the highest of the four Comanche Medicine Mounds, which are located a few miles ... Read More »

Each day, thousands of motorists pass through the Southeast Texas town of Sealy on Interstate 10, many of them ... Read More »

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