Original History

The Schlotzsky's history begins with a really big sandwich

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

I Get to Decide the Rules of National Sovereignty 'and' I Know the Personal History of Most Iraqi Casualties

June 24, 2004 Postmarks

A Short History of Professional Baseball in Austin

July 4, 2003 Sports Feature by Michael Chamy

I-35: TxDot Makes (or Breaks) History?

The I-35 expansion project runs into trouble as it tries to avoid "impacting" historic Eastside properties.

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

History vs. "Progress"

I-35 expansion opponents from Eastside neighborhoods plan to apply for national historic area designation and promise to fight TxDOT along the way to salvage historic structures in their neighborhood.

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

How It All Began: A Brief History of the Kitchen Brigade

Feb. 22, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Republic Square: A Brief History

A Capsule History of Republic Square

July 13, 2001 News Feature by Chale Nafus

The History of an Investigation

A History of the Mala Sangre OCDETF Investigation

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature

A History of Collaboration

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Private History of a Campaign that Failed

Stand-up comic Eddie Gossling is not your president today, and he has a lot of people to blame for it. Here is his first-hand account of his weeklong campaign for the White House.

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Feature by Eddie Gossling

Land of the Free: the History of State-owned Lands in Texas

May 19, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

One Block's History

Aug. 27, 1999 News Feature

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...What if you spent $80 million to build a history museum, and you had nothing to put in it?..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Plethora of Riches: How Richard Samuel Turned an Art Gallery Into a Community Center

RichesArt launches annual Black History Month exhibit with new philanthropic initiative

"...Feb. 3, the gallery opened its third annual Black History Month exhibit, “American History: Elevate,” which displays the work..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...early as 1996, when the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum -- now bigger than life down on Martin..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The League

The history of the Negro Baseball League as the history of America

"...you are bound to hear an equal measure of history and myths. For decades, the Negro Leagues existed more..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...Texas, see the statues as an important piece of history and "not a matter of opinion," according to spokesperson..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...stumbling through the world, interacting with and occasionally creating history along the tumultuous path of the United States through..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

An unmissable lesson in this county's tortured history

"...decades as a trial lawyer) have effectively ignored the history of slavery and its ongoing legacy of white supremacy..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Michael King

Speaking Volumes

The secret history of Austin's First Cookbook

"...In April, Austin Public Library's Austin History Center (AHC) will celebrate a milestone in the city's..."

March 6, 2015 Food Feature by MM Pack

Lee Daniels' The Butler

The stars shine bright in this broad yet moving overview of the last 90 years of African-American history.

"...The sweep of history achieves a grandeur in Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...they look better than the groups oppressing them, but history is filled with flip-flops that find the once-subjugated group..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Bisbee ’17

A dark piece of American history exposed through theatre

"...against America's workers, and a hideous piece of buried history. On July 12, 1917, around 1,300 local workers, many..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation

Tunisia's buried history burns in this chilling supernatural noir

"...a security guard, assigned to patrol this skeleton of history, his death a seeming suicide that baffles but doesn't..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Looking in at Austin’s Last (Known) Slave Quarters

Black history in hiding

"...so long, we've been in denial about our real history in the United States," McGill said. "We knew all..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

The LBJ Presidential Library at 50

For five decades, the LBJ Library & Museum has been not only keeping history but also making history

"...but to the nation. It holds invaluable pieces of history. It tells the story of a national leader who..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

No Place on Earth

A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.

"...Made in conjunction with the History Channel’s theatrical documentary production wing, History Films (also behind..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...as President, as the greatest legislative tactician in Senate history, as a salesman, as a bully – to break..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outing the Archive

The Austin History Center stands ready to gay up its archives

"...the current state of LGBTQI collections at the Austin History Center?..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...experiences and knowledge. Sir! No Sir! presents a focused history of the GI anti-war movement, beginning in the Sixties..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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