July 20, 2023 | By Jen Hamilton Hernandez
When visiting the San Antonio Museum of Art, you may notice architectural details that hearken back to a buzzy period in the city’s history.
July 5, 2023 | By Sarah Vasquez
Growing up, Christina Hernandez spent the summer with her grandparents in the West Texas border town of Presidio, 60 miles south of Marfa.
May 25, 2023 | By Clayton Maxwell
When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job.
On some days, the longest-serving guide at the Texas State Capitol will ascend the building’s ornate cast-iron staircases hundreds of times, greeting many of the people she passes there by name.
May 19, 2023 | By Jen Hamilton Hernandez
As I finish my quiche and bloody mary garnished with a generous bacon slice at the Driskill Hotel’s first-floor 1886 Cafe (named for the year the hotel opened), I realize I’m time traveling in a few different ways.
May 17, 2023 | By Joe Nick Patoski
There are two great stories of Texas, as far as Brian Beattie is concerned. One is the Alamo, about which much has been written, honored, preserved, and mythologized.
May 3, 2023 | By Omar Gallaga
It’s wet and cool outside at Heritage Village in New Braunfels, but inside the limestone cottage where John Potter works, it’s cozy.
January 9, 2023 | By Robyn Ross
November 23, 2022 | By Traces of Texas
Stocking up to make tamales for the holidays, Maria Moreno stopped by a San Antonio shop to buy corn husks on Nov.
October 5, 2022 | By Regina Burns
When Lubbock-based sculptor Eddie Dixon received a phone call about sculpting a statue for the Alamo, the caller wanted to know if he was familiar with the historic figure he would be capturing in bronze.
February 24, 2022 | By John Nova Lomax
January 17, 2022 | By Kahron Spearman
Of the times Martin Luther King Jr. visited Texas, there are three occasions that stand out: 1959 in Fort Worth, 1962 in Austin, and 1967 in Houston, six months before his assassination.
March 12, 2021 | By Gene Fowler
Suburban London, 1956. Five-year-old Phil Collins—yes, that Phil Collins—stands in a snapshot dressed as Davy Crockett in a coonskin cap.
October 29, 2020 | By Clayton Maxwell
November 13, 2019 | By June Naylor
A Texas Kind of Christmas, a new historical romance novel by Rachael Mills, Celia Bonaduce, and best-selling Amarillo author Jodi Thomas, takes readers back to Christmas Eve, 1859
February 5, 2019 | By Kimya Kavehkar
The Texas history museum in Austin hopes to bring comfort and good eats to visitors with its updated cafe. The Story of Texas Café at the Bullock Museum of Texas History in Austin is sporting a new look, catering vendor, and menu. The café recently closed for three weeks to refresh the space with new upholstery and an updated kitchen, and also to work with Rosemary’s Catering, led by chef Baron Cazares, on developing a menu that includes salads, paninis, chili, chips and queso, and the popular build-your-own baked potatoes. Daily specials, like brisket nachos, coastal shrimp cocktail, and chorizo con papas, are posted on the café’s Twitter page.
May 30, 2018 | By Julia Jones
You might recognize W.F. Strong’s booming, theatrical voice from his Stories from Texas segment on public radio show Texas Standard. And as evidenced in his new book, Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True, his signature storytelling style translates very well on paper.
December 14, 2017 | By Jane Kellogg Murray
The city’s modern-day story is only just beginning, but the same could have been said 300 years ago.
Published monthly by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
