Civil War Landscapes and Legacies When Johnny Came Marching Home

"...The number of words written about the Civil War surpassed the actual dead on the battlefield well..."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature

Nathan Harris Pens an Intimate Civil War Tale in The Sweetness of Water

In his debut novel, the Michener Center alumnus brings "a new story to the table"

"...of Old Ox, Ga., in the twilight of the Civil War, the story intertwines the lives of the brothers..."

June 18, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fighting the New Civil War

"...are up against: the behavior of a psychopathic criminal! Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is..."

Oct. 13, 2010 Postmarks

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...hostilities among true believing conservatives as it offers a “history” of the deliberately evil, completely corrupt, America-hating Democrats. D’Souza..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

'A People’s History of Sports in the United States'

Zirin's book rates amongst the best in his field

"...In A People’s History of Sports in the United States ($26.95, The New..."

March 5, 2010 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Today's Texas History Lesson

Land office buys more Confederate artefacts.

"...General Land Office has acquired a unique piece of Civil War history with the purchase of the private letters..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...Company, 496 pp., $35), in which he traces the history of American prisons through the prism of the "retributive..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: What History Teaches

Charlottesville resistance an inspiration here and everywhere

"..."heroes" – primarily erected during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras as symbolic means of reinforcing white supremacy...."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions cycle of history plays, what makes Lyndon Johnson a Shakespearean figure to..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nothing Civil About It

Austin Film Society spotlights 'Slavery by Another Name'

"...historical dots between this country's slavery era and the civil-rights movement? We did have an Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...in sophisticated company. You head on down to the Warehouse District, and plop yourself at any one of the..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Seadrift Tells the Forgotten History of Vietnamese Americans in a Texas Town

Austin director Tim Tsai shares a murder on the Gulf

"...of the decade, during the long grind of the war in Vietnam, the fishing community became home to a..."

June 14, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Bill of the Week: The War on the War of Northern Aggression

Mutual respect for those who fought for the North and South shall rise again

"...the holiday. HB 2224 proposes a new name – Civil War Remembrance Day – and a new date, the..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...A history of Texas is not something that should be entered..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Eye for History

"...taking part in every major military conflict from World War II to Vietnam. He was on board the USS..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

No Difference Between Democrats and Republicans on War

"...seems to think that the Democratic Party is an anti-war party. Where would he get that notion? Every Democrat..."

June 6, 2011 Postmarks

The Secret History

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

"...So the reason he's being so ribald with the history of Catholic clerics at the Texas Jewish Historical Society's..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

History Repeats

A writer and his artist aunt explore cave paintings and see more than just writing on the wall.

"...Together they loved art, they loved nature, they loved history, and most importantly, they loved each other through rear-end..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

'The Texas Cowboy Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos'

"...who had been displaced in various ways by the Civil War. Typically, they were fed the cheapest possible provisions,..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

New Plans for Bastrop Film Studio Hope to Overcome Its Volatile History

Can new management help Spiderwood Studios rise again?

"...Opened by producer Tommy Warren in 2009 (its name a portmanteau of Warren's middle..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Lege: Here Comes the Culture War

The culture war begins as conservative lawmakers file "religious freedom" bills

"...devotedly that there was a God, and throughout American history all three branches of government have acknowledged the strong..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

State Board of Education Tries to Rewrite History

A sharpie to your textbook

"...the siege of the Alamo, an event in state history that has taken on mythic proportions...."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Harvesting History

An appreciation of the pecan

"...Fast-forward to November of 2005. Right on schedule, it's another..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

History by the Tape

LBJ's secret White House tapes reveal more than he may have intended

"...the catalyst for escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War in 1964. But when Beschloss came to Austin several..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Mentality of Politics as War

Scott McClellan on his time in the Bush Administration

"...get caught up in this mentality of politics as war. That's a very destructive process in Washington and something..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Virgin Walks Into a Civil Rights Debate ...

The State Board of Ed circus is back in town

"...on the SBOE's "expert" social studies panel recommending that civil rights leader Cesar Chavez and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood..."

Sept. 25, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...thesis, "From Closet to Crusade: The Struggle for Lesbian-Gay Civil Rights in Austin, Texas, 1970-1982" (which lives in its..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

More Austin LGBTQ History

"...so much for the article on Austin Pride [“The History of Pride in Austin,” News, Aug. 9]. It is..."

Aug. 14, 2019 Postmarks

Voter ID: Battle Lost, War Goes On

Litigants respond to SCOTUS ruling, pledge continuing challenge

"...There's a little part of that history is forgotten: In 2011, Democrats were not in blanket..."

Oct. 18, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: What History Teaches

There are different ways of counting social costs

"...notion that health care – like supermax prisons and war-making – is a fundamental expectation of government. Better we..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Column by Michael King

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