A Black Cowboy Museum, Rebooted
With diversity and history under attack in Texas, Fort Bend County leaders are bucking trends to back the expansion of a museum featuring Black cowboy culture.
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Return to Kíłááhíí
An elder is restored to the Lipan Apache people more than 750 years after her death.
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.
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The Hill Country’s Lost Utopia
Searching for an egalitarian society in this red state
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.