History SMU Aiming for State Approval to House Local Archaeological Artifacts By Laray Polk | 4 days ago Dallas seems to be waking up to its own pre-history.
History Remembering The Knox Street Pub, Dallas’ Home For Counterculture By David Webb | 1 week ago In the late sixties, the Pub was home to all—politicians, hippies, would-be philosophers, people of color, gays—long before the city of Dallas was.
History Another Brief Update on One of Dallas’ Oldest Houses, Its New Home in the Cedars By Alex Macon | 2 weeks ago Watching this old blue house get put back together, it occurs to me that preservation is a great community builder.
Controversy Lawsuit Alleges That City Council Violated Free Speech with Confederate Street Vote By Peter Simek | 1 month ago While the monuments' future remains uncertain, the city will not rename any of its Confederate-related streets. A citizen group is fighting that decision in federal court.
History A Brief Update on One of Dallas’ Oldest Houses By Alex Macon | 2 months 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 | 2 months ago Tomorrow the city council could vote to keep the monument and add "historical context" to offset negative connotations. That would be a mistake.
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History The 1897 Battle of the Trinity Bridge Jumpers By Paula Bosse | 3 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 | 3 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 | 5 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 | 6 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. | 6 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 | 6 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.
