How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History
And how they could still start winning it.
Texas history
The Banality of Border Evil
What a long-dead, cartoonishly corrupt Texas bureaucrat can tell us about the nature of immigration enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico divide
Standing Up for All Texans’ Stories
The new Alliance for Texas History calls for working everyone’s stories “into the fabric of Texas history.”
The Tower Sniper’s Wife
A new book from UT Press provides a troubling twist on the vow “until death do us part.”
Ghosts from Texas’ Past
Dispatch from a haunted—and historically fraught—building in Austin
The Lonesome Writing Guru
How author Larry McMurtry—and George Getschow, editor of a new book about McMurtry—helped shepherd a Lone Star literary community.
The Hill Country’s Lost Utopia
Searching for an egalitarian society in this red state
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It’s Time to Defend the History of All Texans
The way we learn about our collective past is under attack.
Those Who Don’t Know the Past…
The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.
A ‘Fairy Tale’ Trip to 1980s Houston
In between a trip to Scotland, Local Hero lets viewers glimpse a bygone Bayou City of 40 years ago.