Does the Alamo lie to visitors? One popular YouTube historians says they do. Let’s take a look.

Enjoy a laugh at me - with me - in honor of my dear departed father, who taught me how to laugh at myself.

The story of the building that housed the first congress when Houston was the capital of the Republic of Texas (1837-38).

Did Texas have the first female police officer in the United States? The answer is…maybe.

Life in early Texas was no cakewalk and we lost a fair number of our important men before statehood. Here’s how they died…

The story of how the state of Texas (eventually) acquired the Bible of William Barret Travis from his descendants.

Too much Austin in our textbooks? Too little Zavala in our reference books? Here’s the skinny on both and more.

A Hitchcock story…but not the Alfred kind. Blimps and subs in WWII.

What was Dr. Hardin up to in 1973 when PTR was published? How did it impact his career as a Texas historian? Fortunately for us all, he decided to tell us.

How did Papers of the Texas Revolution come to be? Both in 1973 and in 2023 as a digital edition? Find out here.

Document gathering is at the heart of history. Dr. McCaslin tells us why and how PTR fits into the canon of Texas history.

A glimpse at our fabulous event to unveil Digital PTR on April 08, 2023.

A pretty girl, a crazy momma, some debt, and the Texas State Historical Association…what could possibly go wrong?

What was life like for pioneering doctors during the 1839 Galveston yellow fever epidemic? Here’s a taste…

Did you know Sam Houston’s wife was once tried for assault? This is the story of the drama…

Analysis of the sloppy work of a gaggle of anti-Texas Ranger professors.

Filling in the blanks left by anti-Ranger scholars.

Are historic sites run by THC going woke? Kind of.

The vocabulary of critical pedagogy and social emotional learning in Texas education colleges.

Critical literacy and critical pedagogy are teaching kids to activists, instead of teaching them to read and write.