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A young Black boy wearing a mask peers into a large wall-mounted display case featuring fossilized seashells.

Texas Museums Explore New Ways to Make Art and Artifacts More Accessible

Special colorblind eyeglasses, sensory backpacks, and lowered lighting create better experiences for underserved communities

By John Spaulding
November 1, 2022
The black-and-white photo from the 1940s shows truckers posing in front of a Dickies truck. The truckers form two lines, one with men standing in the back line and then a row of men crouching down in front of them.

How Fort Worth’s Dickies Went from Work Wear to Fashion Trend

By Andrea Luttrell
October 27, 2022

Nature

A Runner Sets Out to Experience the Variety of Texas’ Competitive Trail Runs

By Jennifer Stewart
October 27, 2022
A woman stands with her hands clasped in prayer in a green grassy field

History

Remembering the Migration of Freed Slaves on the Emancipation Trail

By Brooke A. Lewis
October 27, 2022

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A green statue of libery on a white brick pillar stands in front of a building with lush green trees and shrubs

Art

You Don’t Need To Go to New York to See the Statue of Liberty

By Michael Hoinski
October 27, 2022
A black-and-white photograph of a woman leaning against a spiny cactus plant, with numerous mountains in the background

Vintage

Finding Isolation on Pinto Canyon Road in West Texas

By Jac Darsnek and Traces of Texas
October 27, 2022

Road Trips

If You Didn’t Post a Selfie From Marfa, Were You Ever Really There?

By Lauren Hough
October 27, 2022
A man in pinstripe overalls stands next to a bright red three-wheeled bicycle with American and Texas flags on the back

Like a Local

Ross Blasingame Is Abilene’s Tricycle-Riding Beacon of Good Will

By Regina L. Burns
October 27, 2022
An illustration of a man in a blue collared shirt reading FC Dallas on a red background with soccer balls

Sports

As the World Cup Kicks Off, FC Dallas President Dan Hunt Talks Texas Soccer

By Matt Joyce
October 27, 2022

Open Road

The Past Is Present in the East Texas City of Marshall

By Gordy Sauer
October 27, 2022
A single gravesite is marked in the middle of an island between two roads. A tree trunk toward the back of the island is where the historical marker sign is located.

Roadside Oddities

Roadside Oddity: The Lone Grave in Hearne

By Marisa Charpentier
October 26, 2022

Sports

Formula 1 Goes ‘Full Texan’ at the 2022 United States Grand Prix in Austin

By Matthew Wetzler
October 24, 2022

Joe Ely Looks Back on His 50-Year Career Ahead of Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Induction

By Joe Nick Patoski
October 21, 2022
A shot of the "Ezekiel" flying machine hangs from the ceiling in an exhibition room at the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum in Pittsburg. Three people stand underneath the contraption, a structure that looks like a nun's cornette with wheels.

Did an East Texas Preacher Beat the Wright Brothers Into the Sky?

By Paul McDonnold
October 18, 2022
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