Stephen F. Austin

Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has also been a place where those liberties end.

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

There are many black afterlives that are yet to be unearthed.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The Texan secessionists are at it again.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.