Mexican revolution spreads to South Texas
In the running war with Mexican bandits, six U.S. Army cavalrymen fought a brief battle…
Author Bartee Haile
Texan dropped the bomb that ended the war
Capt. Kermit K. Beahan of Houston tossed and turned the night of Aug. 8, 1945…
Cholera: The unstoppable scourge in early Texas
Cholera again reared its deadly head in San Antonio on July 30, 1834 causing the…
Nothing new about border debate
Worried the war might cut off their supply of cheap labor, the Texas Dirt Farmers…
Mystery of ‘Lady Bountiful’ – saint, sinner or both?
Lillian Knox, once the prime suspect in the staged suicide of her timber tycoon husband,…
Houston bounces back from lone electoral loss
Two years after fellow Texans spurned him in the only ballot-box loss of his career,…
Texans get laugh out of ‘monkey trial’
In a July 3, 1925 editorial entitled “The Circus Comes to Dayton,” the Temple Daily…
Mayor defends Galveston on eve of crackdown
Testifying in front of a legislative committee on June 25, 1951, the mayor of Texas’…
Guldahl’s career was short but sweet
Sam Snead was determined to beat the Texan, who only the week before had embarrassed…
FDR campaigned in Texas during Centennial
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt mixed policking with pleasure on a reelection campaign swing through Texas…