A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution will make its way to Alpine this summer as part of a statewide … More
Category: History
Fort Davis Historical Society to host Albert Miller talk April 7
The Fort Davis Historical Society will present a program featuring rancher Albert Miller at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, at … More
Kokernot Field Added to National Register, Marking Milestone for Alpine and Texas Baseball
Kokernot Field, a historic ballpark long central to the identity of Alpine and West Texas baseball, has been listed on … More
Camels return to Fort Davis for historic U.S. Army experiment program
The Fort Davis National Historic Site will host a two-day living history program highlighting the U.S. Army’s 19th-century camel experiment, … More
Living History Days to Bring Frontier Heritage to Life at Historic Fort Stockton
The Fort Stockton Historical Society and the Annie Riggs Museum will host Living History Days from March 26–28 at Historic … More
Book Review: A Historian Confronts the Origins of “The Eyes of Texas”
In The Eyes of Texas: Blackface to Whitewash, historian Alberto A. Martínez offers a meticulously researched examination of one of … More
Book Review: The Fish That Ate the Whale Reveals the Banana Baron Who Helped Shape Modern Geopolitics
Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King tells the remarkable story … More
Book Review: Mansfield’s Forgotten Front Line in the Fight Over School Desegregation
Robyn Duff Ladino’s Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High examines one of the earliest—and least … More
Historian Heather Cox Richardson gains wide audience by explaining turbulent U.S. politics with facts and context
Before millions of readers and viewers followed her daily analyses online, historian Heather Cox Richardson built her career through traditional … More
Why Parts of Latin America Struggle Today — and What a 1954 CIA Operation Helps Explain
When people in the United States ask why some countries in Central America and South America struggle with poverty, corruption, … More