Texas history

White Shaman Mural, Pecos

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.

by Brad Tyer

End of an Error

East of Brownsville, an unassuming patch of ground hosted the final, pointless battle of the Civil War.

by Tom Zoellner