History

Looking Back at Neiman Marcus’ Fashion-Forward Legacy

Looking Back at Neiman Marcus’ Fashion-Forward Legacy

I’m standing under the classic red awnings that adorn the flagship Neiman Marcus, marveling at how this style icon ... Read More »

Old Bones Yield New Discoveries at the Waco Mammoth National Monument

Old Bones Yield New Discoveries at the Waco Mammoth National Monument

Roughly 65,000 years ago, a nursery herd of female and young Columbian Mammoths roamed the basin between the ... Read More »

The History Behind Texas’ First Woman Governor

The History Behind Texas’ First Woman Governor

Miriam Ferguson was an unlikely candidate for Texas governor when she ran on the Democratic ticket in 1924. A shy ... Read More »

Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Explores the History of Convenience Stores

Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Explores the History of Convenience Stores

Although it now sits motionless, the green Model T truck housed in Waco's Dr Pepper Museum once sputtered loudly ... Read More »

Revisiting the Texas Neighborhoods Where Astronauts Lived

Revisiting the Texas Neighborhoods Where Astronauts Lived

In July of 1975, local Texas newspapers published blow-by-blow accounts of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission. There were ... Read More »

How a Volcano Shaped the South Texas Landscape

How a Volcano Shaped the South Texas Landscape

Juan L. Gonzalez, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, hops out of the car ... Read More »

The Majesty of Gorman Falls

The Majesty of Gorman Falls

Often regarded as the highlight of a trip to Colorado Bend State Park, Gorman Falls spills down 70 feet over ... Read More »

Texas’ Historical Train Depots Get a New Life

Texas’ Historical Train Depots Get a New Life

In 1899, Belton’s red train depot was a stop on a 7.14-mile branch of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the ... Read More »

Remembering the Franklin Mountains Tramway

Remembering the Franklin Mountains Tramway

The vast, painted landscapes of West Texas are best appreciated from great heights. This tramway, photographed in ... Read More »

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

Lighter-than-air vehicles, also known as dirigibles or airships, have floated in Texas skies for over a century, ... Read More »

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

At 24 years old, A.J. High took off from Houston as a copilot on the first flight of the newly formed Trans-Texas ... Read More »

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

Vintage train rides offer a window into Texas’ locomotive history and a family’s legacy on the tracks By ... Read More »

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