The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due
A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”
Books
‘Another Book, Another Month, Another Day Closer to You’
The Women’s Storybook Project of Texas is an Austin nonprofit that encourages incarcerated mothers to read to their children.
Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Is the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era
The Mexican novelist writes that asylum-seekers come to the U.S. not in search of the American dream, but “to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born.”
In the Age of Trump, the First All-Latino Sci-Fi Anthology Hits too Close to Home
Sci-fi has a long tradition of talking about power, dystopian politics and authoritarianism — and it’s never been more necessary.
In ‘Blue Texas,’ a Historical Blueprint for Texas Activists
Max Krochmal's new history of multiracial civil rights movements in Texas offers lessons for progressives in the age of Trump, one of which is that demography is not necessarily destiny.
If These Walls Could Talk
The pictographs of the Pecos River have lasted millennia in a tempestuous desert, surviving mostly in silence. Now an archaeologist has cracked the code — and they can begin to speak again.
Mapping Texas’ Fraught Environmental History
A new atlas of Texas ecology reveals how thoroughly humans have woven ourselves into the geography of the state, for good and for ill.
In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up
A pictorial history of Houston as it transformed, over and over again, between the 1930s and the 1990s.