In a former railroad town north of Houston, a nightly ghost tour and a small museum tell different accounts of the past ...

Arts administrator Briana Vargas was driving along the frontage of US 54 in El Paso in 2018 when she spotted white cement and ...

In 2025, the first Big Texas Little Film Tour traveled to eight communities around the state, screening at rodeos, ...

The Museum of the Southwest opens the private rooms of the West Texas oil family who took the Kentucky Derby, twice.

Star Film Ranch, a former silent filmmaking studio in San Antonio, is just dust in the wind, but author and film historian Frank Thompson can point out its former location. He’s been researching the ...

Long before automobiles took over El Paso, the trendiest way to move around was public transit, embodied by the colorful, hardworking streetcar. Beginning in 1881, mule-drawn streetcars were the ...

but it’s not a long one. It meanders for a mere 11 miles through the open prairie between Waxahachie and Palmer. There are plenty of crop fields and pastures to look at. A few low creeks trickle past.

The Texas Capitol is famous for the sunset red granite that gives the building its pinkish exterior, but few know that stray capitol building blocks can still be found scattered along the old railway ...

I gripped the steering wheel tightly and felt my heart race as the weight of my car caused a clanking commotion against the wood-planked bridge below. Once on the other side, I parked, took a deep ...

I can’t remember the first Texas movie I ever watched as a kid, but that’s because we didn’t think about “Texas” movies when I was growing up in Plano. It’s possible I saw The Searchers or Red River ...

When the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (or “Bush 43,” as it is called colloquially) opened on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, it made Texas home to not one, but ...