Blog Posts About The Medallion

By Andy Rhodes, Managing Editor of The Medallion

This summer, the Texas Historical Commission welcomed two college interns to Austin for nearly two months of preservation education through the agency’s Preservation Scholars program (formerly Diversity Interns). 

Zoe Simien (Texas State University) and Ledell Thomas (Prairie View A&M University) will spend much of the summer...

By Rob Hodges, THC Communications Project Coordinator

Legends of the Caddo Indians provide explanations for the origin of the lake they called Tso’to, but geologists believe Caddo Lake was formed by the Great Raft, a nearly 100-mile-long logjam on the Red River in Louisiana. Caddo lived in the nearby village Sha’chahdínnih (Timber Hill) from roughly 1800 to the early 1840s, when East...

By Jenny McWilliams, THC Cemetery Program

If your cemetery, community, veterans group, or County Historical Commission is planning an event to memorialize the World War I centennial, the Texas Historical Commission’s (THC) Historic Cemetery Preservation Program provides the following suggestions for commemorative activities.

Adorning Graves with Flags and Poppies. Flags are...

By Jim Hodgson, Executive Director, Fort Worth Aviation Museum

When the United States entered the Great War in April 1917, conflict in Europe had been raging for 32 months. By all accounts, the nation was unprepared in terms of men, equipment, training, and combat experience to be an effective partner in defeating Germany and its allies.

Nowhere was this more...