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So, let’s see, if I add Kerr, Lessoff, Roberts, Smithwick, Blakeslee and Crook to the ballot, then we have a total of 59 books about Texas by authors I’d fight for any day. No, make it 60.
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the ...
HOUSTON — It’s been a devastating few days across Texas as the Hill Country and Central Texas dealt with deadly flooding.
You don't need a Texas home library. A few relatively inexpensive books — plus some websites — can ensure that your Texas history remains factual. Let's set aside historical fiction for now ...
Texas History Movies was a comic strip that first ran in The Dallas Morning News for two years from 1926 to 1928. Then the newspaper canceled it.
Texas Icons It’s Time to Reexamine One of the Most Beloved Books About Texas Regarded by many Texans as a classic work of history, T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star contains racist ideas that ...
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time.
The book – which provides a detailed history of every sheriff’s office in Texas – looks like it belongs in a museum. But the book wasn’t written by historians.