Dallas History Early Influencers: Herbert Marcus By Will Maddox | 3 weeks ago After moving to Texas from Kentucky, he and his family disrupted retail by focusing on high-quality, ready-to-wear clothing, versus couture.
Dallas History James Byrd Jr. and the Modern-Day Lynching By Joyce King | 1 month ago 22 years ago, he was dragged to death in Jasper, Texas. Here's how he's connected to George Floyd's 2020 Minneapolis and Allen Brooks' in 1910 Dallas.
Civics How Can Dallas Turn the Lessons of the Streets Into a Program of Change? By Peter Simek | 1 month ago Ending systemic racism will require more than sympathy and well-meaning gestures. It will require changing how power is wielded in America.
Dallas History The Horrible Truth of Love Field’s Texas Ranger Statue By Doug J. Swanson | 1 month ago A new book about the Texas Rangers tells the truth about that famous bronze at Love Field and a 1930 lynch mob in Sherman. An excerpt from Cult of Glory.
Books Why Didn’t La Réunion Survive? By Peter Simek | 2 months ago A new book says that one man is to blame for the failure of the utopian colony on the banks of the Trinity.
Architecture & Design Remembering Dallas’ Pioneering Preservationist Virginia Savage McAlester By Peter Simek | 3 months ago At a time when Dallas was hell-bent on paving over its past, McAlester was a dogged advocate of the city's overlooked architectural history.
Music From Lockdown, Bob Dylan Drops 17-Minute Song About the JFK Assassination By Peter Simek | 4 months ago Dylan's epic 'Murder Most Foul' is an instant Dallas classic, and it offers a reflection on our need for art in moments of suffering
Dallas History How We Should Think About the Stories We Tell About Dallas By Blake Earle | 4 months ago Author and journalist Stephen Harrigan's Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas is an epic history of our state, but is its Dallas origin story myth or reality?
culture This Month Marks 25 Years Since Selena Died By Roberto José Andrade Franco | 4 months ago I still remember exactly where I was when it happened.
Dallas History Tales from the Dallas History Archives: Looking Back at Dallas’ Presidential Visits By Brandon Murray | 5 months ago Just in time for primary season.
Dallas History Times Uncovers Political Battlefields Hidden in Texas History Textbooks By Peter Simek | 6 months ago A close analysis of high school textbooks show that students in different states are often taught different versions of history
Dallas History A West Dallas Cemetery Tells the Stories of the Mexican Families Who Built Our City By ROBERTO JOSÉ ANDRADE FRANCO | 7 months ago Find out why Campo Santo de Cemento Grande is so important to Henry Martinez Jr., who is part of one of the oldest Mexican families in Dallas.
Dallas History The Ghosts of Cement City By Roberto José Andrade Franco | 7 months ago In West Dallas, an almost abandoned cemetery tells the story of the Mexican families who built our city, risking their lives in the cement factories that once stood there.
Dallas History SMU Saves North Texas’ Archaeological History By Laray Polk | 8 months ago Sunday Eiselt has everything looking ship shape.
Fashion How Dallas Saved Fashion History By S. Holland Murphy | 8 months ago The most fabulous closet in North Texas holds 20,000 irreplaceable pieces of our past.
