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Bite of West Texas: Goodnight Steakhouse, Albany https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25334/ #Albany #BrookHatchett #CharlesGoodnight #HeatherEasley #JasonHarlow #Saloon #SteakHouse #SteakHouses #SteakRestaurant #SteakRestaurants #Steakhouse #Steakhouses #TexasHistory #TexasPanhandle #WestTexas

Bite of West Texas: Goodnight Steakhouse, Albany https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25334/ #Albany #BrookHatchett #CharlesGoodnight #HeatherEasley #JasonHarlow #Saloon #SteakHouse #SteakHouses #SteakRestaurant #SteakRestaurants #Steakhouse #Steakhouses #TexasHistory #TexasPanhandle #WestTexas

Bite of West Texas: Goodnight Steakhouse, Albany https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25334/ #Albany #BrookHatchett #CharlesGoodnight #HeatherEasley #JasonHarlow #Saloon #SteakHouse #SteakHouses #SteakRestaurant #SteakRestaurants #Steakhouse #Steakhouses #TexasHistory #TexasPanhandle #WestTexas

1972 Amarillo Air Terminal Postcard
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#Amarillo #Texas #Postcard #Texashistory #AirportArchitecure #Aviation #Avgeek #Travel #Postcards @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com

1972 Amarillo Air Terminal Postcard
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#Amarillo #Texas #Postcard #Texashistory #AirportArchitecure #Aviation #Avgeek #Travel #Postcards @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com

1972 Amarillo Air Terminal Postcard
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#Amarillo #Texas #Postcard #Texashistory #AirportArchitecure #Aviation #Avgeek #Travel #Postcards @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com

1972 Amarillo Air Terminal Postcard
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#Amarillo #Texas #Postcard #Texashistory #AirportArchitecure #Aviation #Avgeek #Travel #Postcards @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com

1972 Amarillo Air Terminal Postcard
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#Amarillo #Texas #Postcard #Texashistory #AirportArchitecure #Aviation #Avgeek #Travel #Postcards @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com

UT Arlington: Share your World Cup story with UTA Libraries. “Following Arlington’s hosting of nine World Cup matches, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is inviting soccer fans, residents and visitors from around the globe to help preserve this historic moment by contributing their personal experiences to a new World Cup digital collection.”

UT Arlington: Share your World Cup story with UTA Libraries. “Following Arlington’s hosting of nine World Cup matches, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is inviting soccer fans, residents and visitors from around the globe to help preserve this historic moment by contributing their personal experiences to a new World Cup digital collection.”

UT Arlington: Share your World Cup story with UTA Libraries. “Following Arlington’s hosting of nine World Cup matches, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is inviting soccer fans, residents and visitors from around the globe to help preserve this historic moment by contributing their personal experiences to a new World Cup digital collection.”

UT Arlington: Share your World Cup story with UTA Libraries. “Following Arlington’s hosting of nine World Cup matches, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is inviting soccer fans, residents and visitors from around the globe to help preserve this historic moment by contributing their personal experiences to a new World Cup digital collection.”

UT Arlington: Share your World Cup story with UTA Libraries. “Following Arlington’s hosting of nine World Cup matches, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is inviting soccer fans, residents and visitors from around the globe to help preserve this historic moment by contributing their personal experiences to a new World Cup digital collection.”

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

LBJ, Beyonce, Willie Nelson top this list of most influential Texans

The Brief The Chron put together its list of the 250 most influential Texans. The list spans politics,…
#NFL #HoustonTexans #Houston #Texans #BeyonceKnowles #Football #PresidentLyndonB.Johnson #SamHouston #Texan #Texashistory #TheChron
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/935427/

LBJ, Beyonce, Willie Nelson top this list of most influential Texans

The Brief The Chron put together its list of the 250 most influential Texans. The list spans politics,…
#NFL #HoustonTexans #Houston #Texans #BeyonceKnowles #Football #PresidentLyndonB.Johnson #SamHouston #Texan #Texashistory #TheChron
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/935427/

LBJ, Beyonce, Willie Nelson top this list of most influential Texans https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/935427/ #BeyonceKnowles #Football #Houston #HoustonTexans #HoustonTexans #NFL #PresidentLyndonBJohnson #SamHouston #Texan #Texans #TexasHistory #TheChron

LBJ, Beyonce, Willie Nelson top this list of most influential Texans https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/935427/ #BeyonceKnowles #Football #Houston #HoustonTexans #HoustonTexans #NFL #PresidentLyndonBJohnson #SamHouston #Texan #Texans #TexasHistory #TheChron

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."

Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books @bookstodon

"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."

Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books @bookstodon

"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."

Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books @bookstodon

"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."

Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books @bookstodon

"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."

Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books @bookstodon

A June 1970 snapshot: Mildred Hausinger and two other women posed on a motorboat, sun probably high, summer already doing what Texas summers do. The photo asks no permission and explains nothing — just three women, a boat, and a good day on the water. Sometimes the archive hands you pure leisure. #TexasHistory #Houston #1970s #WomensHistory

A June 1970 snapshot: Mildred Hausinger and two other women posed on a motorboat, sun probably high, summer already doing what Texas summers do. The photo asks no permission and explains nothing — just three women, a boat, and a good day on the water. Sometimes the archive hands you pure leisure. #TexasHistory #Houston #1970s #WomensHistory

A June 1970 snapshot: Mildred Hausinger and two other women posed on a motorboat, sun probably high, summer already doing what Texas summers do. The photo asks no permission and explains nothing — just three women, a boat, and a good day on the water. Sometimes the archive hands you pure leisure. #TexasHistory #Houston #1970s #WomensHistory

A June 1970 snapshot: Mildred Hausinger and two other women posed on a motorboat, sun probably high, summer already doing what Texas summers do. The photo asks no permission and explains nothing — just three women, a boat, and a good day on the water. Sometimes the archive hands you pure leisure. #TexasHistory #Houston #1970s #WomensHistory

Texas winters don't get enough credit. While the state is famous for heat, hard freezes do hit — and when they do, the transformation is stark. A Houston Public Library photograph captures tree branches glazed in icicles, a reminder that Gulf Coast winters have their own quiet drama. The South freezes too. #Texas #TexasWinter #TexasHistory #Photography

Texas winters don't get enough credit. While the state is famous for heat, hard freezes do hit — and when they do, the transformation is stark. A Houston Public Library photograph captures tree branches glazed in icicles, a reminder that Gulf Coast winters have their own quiet drama. The South freezes too. #Texas #TexasWinter #TexasHistory #Photography

Texas winters don't get enough credit. While the state is famous for heat, hard freezes do hit — and when they do, the transformation is stark. A Houston Public Library photograph captures tree branches glazed in icicles, a reminder that Gulf Coast winters have their own quiet drama. The South freezes too. #Texas #TexasWinter #TexasHistory #Photography

Texas winters don't get enough credit. While the state is famous for heat, hard freezes do hit — and when they do, the transformation is stark. A Houston Public Library photograph captures tree branches glazed in icicles, a reminder that Gulf Coast winters have their own quiet drama. The South freezes too. #Texas #TexasWinter #TexasHistory #Photography

Texas winters don't get enough credit. While the state is famous for heat, hard freezes do hit — and when they do, the transformation is stark. A Houston Public Library photograph captures tree branches glazed in icicles, a reminder that Gulf Coast winters have their own quiet drama. The South freezes too. #Texas #TexasWinter #TexasHistory #Photography

A December 1970 snapshot of Mildred Hausinger by a fireplace — the kind of photo that almost never makes it into archives. Someone thought this moment worth preserving: a woman, a fire, a winter evening. The Houston Public Library kept it, and that choice says something about what counts as history. #TexasHistory #Houston #20thCentury #Photography

A December 1970 snapshot of Mildred Hausinger by a fireplace — the kind of photo that almost never makes it into archives. Someone thought this moment worth preserving: a woman, a fire, a winter evening. The Houston Public Library kept it, and that choice says something about what counts as history. #TexasHistory #Houston #20thCentury #Photography

A December 1970 snapshot of Mildred Hausinger by a fireplace — the kind of photo that almost never makes it into archives. Someone thought this moment worth preserving: a woman, a fire, a winter evening. The Houston Public Library kept it, and that choice says something about what counts as history. #TexasHistory #Houston #20thCentury #Photography

A December 1970 snapshot of Mildred Hausinger by a fireplace — the kind of photo that almost never makes it into archives. Someone thought this moment worth preserving: a woman, a fire, a winter evening. The Houston Public Library kept it, and that choice says something about what counts as history. #TexasHistory #Houston #20thCentury #Photography

A December 1970 snapshot of Mildred Hausinger by a fireplace — the kind of photo that almost never makes it into archives. Someone thought this moment worth preserving: a woman, a fire, a winter evening. The Houston Public Library kept it, and that choice says something about what counts as history. #TexasHistory #Houston #20thCentury #Photography

Snow in Houston hits different when you remember how rarely it actually sticks. This Houston Public Library archive photo shows a residential home and yard blanketed in white — a genuinely uncommon sight for the Gulf Coast city. When snow does fall in Houston, the whole city stops. Always has. #Houston #Texas #TexasHistory #TexasWeather

The Houston Public Library made a deliberate choice to archive this: two women, Mildred Hausinger and Marguerite Austin, standing outside a commercial complex next to a planter. Unremarkable on the surface. But the subject tag 'Lesbians' makes the intention clear — this is documentary preservation of ordinary life. Who gets to have their everyday moments treated as history worth keeping? #LGBTQ #TexasHistory #Houston #Archival

The Houston Public Library made a deliberate choice to archive this: two women, Mildred Hausinger and Marguerite Austin, standing outside a commercial complex next to a planter. Unremarkable on the surface. But the subject tag 'Lesbians' makes the intention clear — this is documentary preservation of ordinary life. Who gets to have their everyday moments treated as history worth keeping? #LGBTQ #TexasHistory #Houston #Archival

The Houston Public Library made a deliberate choice to archive this: two women, Mildred Hausinger and Marguerite Austin, standing outside a commercial complex next to a planter. Unremarkable on the surface. But the subject tag 'Lesbians' makes the intention clear — this is documentary preservation of ordinary life. Who gets to have their everyday moments treated as history worth keeping? #LGBTQ #TexasHistory #Houston #Archival

The Houston Public Library made a deliberate choice to archive this: two women, Mildred Hausinger and Marguerite Austin, standing outside a commercial complex next to a planter. Unremarkable on the surface. But the subject tag 'Lesbians' makes the intention clear — this is documentary preservation of ordinary life. Who gets to have their everyday moments treated as history worth keeping? #LGBTQ #TexasHistory #Houston #Archival

The Houston Public Library made a deliberate choice to archive this: two women, Mildred Hausinger and Marguerite Austin, standing outside a commercial complex next to a planter. Unremarkable on the surface. But the subject tag 'Lesbians' makes the intention clear — this is documentary preservation of ordinary life. Who gets to have their everyday moments treated as history worth keeping? #LGBTQ #TexasHistory #Houston #Archival

A single archival photo can hold a whole life. This portrait of Mildred Hausinger — a child in a light-colored dress — survives in the Houston Public Library collection as a quiet record that someone existed, was photographed, and was considered worth preserving. Portrait photography in the early 20th century wasn't casual. Someone made a decision. #TexasHistory #Archival #PortraitPhotography #HoustonHistory

A 1990 letter from Sarah Cortez to Susan Klimczak sits in the Houston Public Library archives — quietly bridging worlds rarely seen together: Houston's Mexican American literary community, law enforcement, and lesbian organizing. Cortez herself would later become known as both a Houston police officer and a published poet. These overlapping identities weren't contradictions — they were Houston. #TexasHistory #HoustonHistory #ChicanoLiterature #TexasPoetry

A 1991 letter from Houston author Sarah Cortez to Susan Klimczak sits in the Houston Public Library archives — connecting threads of Hispanic American literature, Houston's lesbian community, and HPD policing in one document. Cortez would later become known as both a cop and a poet, a combination rare enough to stop you cold. Primary sources like this show how literary networks actually functioned on the ground. #TexasHistory #HoustonHistory #ChicanoLiterature #TexasPoetry

By 1911, the men photographed at this United Confederate Veterans reunion in Austin were decades removed from the war that defined their generation. These gatherings weren't just nostalgia — they were deliberate acts of collective memory, shaping how the Confederacy would be remembered. The camera made that memory permanent. #CivilWar #TexasHistory #Austin #ConfederateVeterans

Bandera, Texas — west of San Antonio — puts its own spin on Mardi Gras by leaning into its identity as the self-proclaimed "Cowboy Capital of Texas." Not New Orleans, not a casino floor — a Hill Country town that decided Fat Tuesday needed boots and a hat. The mashup makes a kind of perfect sense: Texans have never met a tradition they couldn't rework on their own terms. #Bandera #Texas #MardiGras #TexasHistory

A 1992 letter from Hispanic American author Sarah Cortez to Susan Klimczak sits in Houston Public Library's archive — two installments written just two days apart, June 6 and 8. It connects Houston's Mexican American literary community to broader questions of identity, policing, and lesbian community in early '90s Texas. Personal correspondence like this is often how literary history actually gets made. #TexasHistory #HoustonHistory #MexicanAmerican #TexasLiterature

A mural in downtown Alpine, Texas tells local history through the brush of Stylle Read — an artist who came not from the Big Bend region, but from Cleburne, in North Texas. Public murals like this one show how Texas communities often look beyond their own borders to document themselves. Sometimes an outside eye sees a place most clearly. #Texas #PublicArt #AlpineTexas #TexasHistory

In 1941, Sabine Farms homesteaders near Marshall, TX did something pragmatic and quietly radical: they collectively contracted with Dr. A.O. Lee for medical care. Pooling resources for a Black physician in Jim Crow Texas meant building a parallel system of survival outside hostile institutions. The community didn't wait for access — they organized it. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #NewDeal #MarshallTexas