History A Brief Update on One of Dallas’ Oldest Houses By Alex Macon | 2 weeks ago The blue house in the Cedars is looking right at home in its new landing place.
Civics History Demands That Dallas Tears Down Its Confederate War Memorial By Peter Simek | 1 month ago Tomorrow the city council could vote to keep the monument and add "historical context" to offset negative connotations. That would be a mistake.
History The 1897 Battle of the Trinity Bridge Jumpers By Paula Bosse | 2 months ago When a New Yorker tried to raise money to jump off the Commerce Street bridge into the Trinity, a local was "determined that the honor of Dallas should be upheld."
History Lost Dallas By Peter Simek | 2 months ago Uncovering secrets from the city's past buried by time, memory, and I-30.
History New Film Footage of Jack Ruby Surfaces By Peter Simek | 4 months ago In WFAA's archives, b-roll from a holiday parade in 1960 captures a rare candid moment of the nightlife kingpin and Oswald killer
History Did Dallas Really ‘Come From Nothing’? By Tim Rogers | 5 months ago Here's how one paragraph in a book by a St. Louis professor led to a feature in D Magazine’s January issue.
History Dallas Through a Lost Lens: Photos From the 1940s and ’50s By Connell R. Miller Jr. | 5 months ago For years my dad roamed the city, large format camera in hand, capturing moments big and small. Here his photos are published for the first time.
History Where Dallas’ Oldest History Goes to Die By Laray Polk | 5 months ago In a basement at SMU, an archaeologist is trying to save North Texas' prehistory. Her work shows us how recklessly Dallas has built a modern city.
Visual Arts The Real Meaning of the Robert E. Lee Statue By Peter Simek | 5 months ago Removing the Confederate sculpture in Oak Lawn was necessary and overdue. But it reminds us of the power that art holds, for good and ill.
History The Texas Theatre’s New Plaque Is Good for Historical Accuracy, JFK Conspiracy Theories By Alex Macon | 5 months ago 'On November 22, 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended in the auditorium.'
Movies Dallas Filmmakers Unearth Alien City in Forgotten WFAA Footage By Peter Simek | 5 months ago In tonight's 'Frame of Mind' episode, 10 filmmakers dig through WFAA's historical archives and discover new perspectives on Dallas' past and present
Pop Music Steve Miller on Fighting St. Mark’s Bullies and Navigating Dallas’ Early Rock Scene By Peter Simek | 5 months ago Miller will appear on Dan Rather's interview show this evening, and the segment promises plenty of Dallas reminiscing
