The instant Robert Ervin Howard learned his comatose mother was not long for this world, the fantasy writer decided Jun. 11, 1936 would be his last da...

Juneteenth commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas and other confederate states on June 19, 1865. On that day, 250,000 enslaved African America...

by Bartee Haile By the third week of March 1967, the sensational scam was the talk of the international art world. A Texas tycoon was the not-so-proud...

The daughter of a long dead and all but forgotten hero of the Texas Revolution unveiled a statue of her tragic father at a Galveston intersection on O...

An ax-swinging fiend that had terrorized the Texas capital for weeks struck again on the night of May 5, 1885 leaving a mother’s dead body for h...

On April 22, 1935, West Texans were still feeling the effects of the “black blizzard” that struck without warning the previous week blotti...