The Texas Connection To Turkey’s Failed Coup
Turkish leaders are blaming Fethullah Gulen, a man with deep ties to Texas’s largest charter school system, for the attempted takeover.
Turkish leaders are blaming Fethullah Gulen, a man with deep ties to Texas’s largest charter school system, for the attempted takeover.
A restauranteur's death in 1949 was also the end of the short-lived Houston Mafia.
Why is the federal government claiming thousands of acres of riverfront property from a bunch of North Texas landowners?
The great trail drives head for the last roundup.
I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.
In a world full of evil dudes pretending to be good guys, Waylon Jennings was a good guy pretending to be an evil dude and never quite succeeding.
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
The aftermath of the recent rape scandal at Baylor is shocking, but the fallout isn't a first for the Waco school.
Outside San Saba stands the last Texas suspension span still open to traffic.
Two tales of fathers and sons.
The state capitol's adventures in portraiture.
Veggie tales from Brownsville in the early twentieth century.
All the Way playwright Robert Schenkkan on Donald Trump, George Wallace, and why Bryan Cranston makes a great LBJ.
How one woman’s fight for freedom inspired Houston’s lawyers and artists more than a century and a half later.
What kolaches, African-American cooking, and chili queens can teach us about women’s influence on Texas cuisine.
How guns are central to our—and my—identity.
Making the guns that won the West.
Guns have always been part of my life, and I’ve never forgotten the lesson I learned the first time I fired one.
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
The aerial pursuits of the Greenville Banner.
A hipster paradise, a high-tech nirvana, a festival wonderland. Today Austin barely resembles the sleepy college town I moved to in the seventies. How it changed is the story of a lifetime.
If you don’t know it, can’t remember it, or won’t sing it, what good is it?
Acknowledging the past is just the first step for this small town.
An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.
The whisky fad.
Texas Monthly gets an exclusive look inside the iconic Main House of the King Ranch.
In a small shop in El Paso, a man practices a craft that may soon be no more.
The descendants of Richard and Henrietta King do hereby invite you into the King Ranch with these exclusive photographs of the one-hundred-year-old Main House.
Because a dance is the best way to learn about this dark time in U.S. history.
After years of trying to find out about the subject of this photo, clues emerge in an unlikely place.
Though Quanah Parker and the way of life he represented is long gone, his headdress remains.
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
The famed musicologist’s obsession with history made him one of the great chroniclers of American music.
John Paris’ father, Andy, was one of the most famous men alive in post-WWII America and Mexico—that is, until his bubblegum empire crashed hard.
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
The dishes, glassware, and silver that John F. Kennedy never got to use.
Peace and quiet among our most famous gravestones.
The textbooks are all right.
The presumed killer of John F. Kennedy died in Texas, but his gravestone didn't rest in peace.
Four other Confederates will maintain their vigil over the university, but Jefferson Davis is being moved out of plain sight.
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
LBJ, voting rights, and a complex legacy.
From the Bryan Daily Eagle, July 7, 1910
A trove of Texas memorabilia.
Stephen F. Austin was a Texas pioneer—of image management.
Twenty-two Texans on why they will (or won’t) go to the ballot box.
Among other things, Charles Goodnight basically invented the food truck. (He called it the chuck wagon.)