History

The Tragic Tale of a 17th-Century French Colony’s Collapse

The Spanish soldiers were braced for a fight as they bushwhacked the brushy banks of Garcitas Creek, just a few ... Read More »

On May 8, 1846, a train of ox carts carrying 120 pioneers rumbled to a halt, 4 miles north of the upper ... Read More »

A Visual History of Fredericksburg By Traces of Texas The stories and photos of Fredericksburg included ... Read More »

Horse Before the Cart Traveling Texas wasn’t always so easy By John LumpkinÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, one of ... Read More »

This May marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas. A ... Read More »

As a descendant of slaves from an East Texas plantation—Monte Verdi in Rusk County—I felt an ancestral ... Read More »

Filmmaker King Vidor was only 6 years old when he survived the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The ... Read More »

From the 1860s to the late 1930s, food vendors proliferated in San Antonio’s plazas. The mostly female vendors ... Read More »

Drive on Farm-to-Market Road 535 through the Bastrop County town of Rockne and you may notice a bronze bust on a ... Read More »

Traveling south out of Austin on US 290 through the growing community of Oak Hill, hundreds of drivers a day ... Read More »

Photographer Basil Clemons rambled the West and served in World War I before he arrived in the North Texas town of ... Read More »

The Brush Country of the South Texas borderland is a harsh place. Part Chihuahuan Desert and part Tamaulipan ... Read More »

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