A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

Between Austin and Waco in Texas is a historic motor hotel that once served stagecoach travelers in the 19th century and ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine nominated former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach and university president Jim Tressel as the state’s next lieutenant governor on Monday. The ...

Authorities conducted autopsies on Monday after the deaths of two foreign tourists who died earlier this month while vacationing in Sri Lanka, police said. Police said ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

“Your Place in History: Historic Southside” is a six-week initiative to collect memories, photographs, documents and audio ...

When the Civil War ended and with it the last vestiges of slavery in the United States, the newly freed enslaved, termed ...