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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the federal government operated boarding schools for native children: many were forced to go. In the present moment, all eyes are on the separation of ...

In the rusting oil fields north of Fort Stockton, there is a well that has been left leaking for decades — and in that time, it has created a body of water known as Lake Boehmer. The source of the ...

In Brownsville, Texas last October, Gina Hinojosa announced she was running for governor of Texas. Hinojosa is an attorney and state lawmaker, and at the time, few political pundits gave her candidacy ...

Who were the first peoples to inhabit Texas? It’s often the case that research yields more questions than answers. But now, there might actually be some answers lurking in a thin body of water that ...

Dave Philipps new book teaches about Texas regions known as wild horse desert that used to house massive herds of wild horses. If you look at some old maps of Texas, whole swaths of the state are ...

Texas Standard listener and historian Samuel Collins III shares information about the Nia Cultural Center Juneteenth Legacy Project Headquarters in Galveston for the Standard’s Texas Museum Map series ...

All three incumbent Republicans on the Supreme Court of Texas were reelected — a blow to Democrats who had hoped backlash to the court’s abortion rulings would deliver them their first victory to the ...

For nearly 40 years, commuters along Houston’s Southwest Freeway have passed by a peculiar landmark: the head of an Egyptian pharaoh, looming eye-level with drivers on the upper deck. This was Magic ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s political party of more than five decades admonished him on Sunday — barring the lifelong Democrat from receiving its endorsement in the future, according to multiple ...

1. Lonesome Dove was originally a much shorter screenplay. It was written 15 years earlier by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdonavich. It was called ‘Streets of Laredo’ and was supposed to star John ...

This story starts off like many good stories do: two men walked into a bar. Now, we have to expand it a little, two men walked into a bar in San Antonio fifty years ago. Okay, it was actually a ...