Monday, November 29, 2021 - 1:05pm
War Chief Javier Loera grew up in a traditional Tigua family. Now he maintains the cultural heritage of his tribe.
For about nine years, Loera has been the war chief, a lifelong position, for the Tigua people of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in El Paso. This year, he was designated as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the newly established Tribal Historic Preservation Office (...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 3:23pm
By Andy Rhodes, Managing Editor, The Medallion
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It was impossible to see in the murky water of Matagorda Bay. Divers searched for clues, hoping something would lead to the 1686 French shipwreck La Belle, long associated with the area. But on that overcast afternoon in 1995, the cloudy bay water obscured a visual confirmation by the...
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 11:08am
Spanning the centuries and the breadth of Texas from the Rio Grande to the Sabine River, a “royal road” connects the present to the past. El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail was designated as part of the National Trails System by the U.S. Congress in 2004, but its story started far earlier, as a series of routes laid...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 11:42am
By Cait Johnson, Lead Educator, San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
The San Jacinto Battleground might be best known as the site of the final battle of the Texas Revolution, but that’s not the only victory that has taken place here.
On San Jacinto Day in 1868, the Battleground was the site of one of the first official baseball games in Texas.
Organized...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 3:47pm
By Mallory Laurel, Heritage Tourism Program Specialist
The weekly television program Texas Country Reporter has been highlighting the people and places of rural Texas since 1972. To coincide with its 50th anniversary, host and producer Bob Phillips has released the memoir, A Good Long Drive: Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter. We caught up with him recently to get some of his tried-...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 3:41pm
By Railey Tassin, Intern at Monument Hill State Historic Site
Many people know the story of the Monument Hill tomb—which holds the remains of 52 Texas men who died during the Dawson and Mier Expeditions in 1842 and 1843— and have visited it to pay their respects.
Yet not as many consider the history or significance of the adjacent monument itself. In 2021, the monument will...
Friday, August 27, 2021 - 9:03am
By Margo McCutcheon, Site Educator, Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site
Martha “Mat” Clementine Waller married a man named William Marion Rayburn on May 14, 1868. With that marriage, the Waller became a Rayburn, but what happened to the Waller name? Although Martha didn’t really “lose” her maiden name, she and many other women throughout time who descended from Anglo-Saxon...
Friday, August 27, 2021 - 9:03am
By Margo McCutcheon, Site Educator, Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site
Martha “Mat” Clementine Waller married a man named William Marion Rayburn on May 14, 1868. With that marriage, the Waller became a Rayburn, but what happened to the Waller name? Although Martha didn’t really “lose” her maiden name, she and many other women throughout time who descended from Anglo-Saxon...
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 12:42pm
On Thursday, July 22, the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History’s Sam Rayburn Museum in Bonham teamed up for an in-depth webinar exploring the life and career of one of the most influential Americans in the 20th century.
This was the first in a new series delving into specific facets of Sam Rayburn’s personal life and political...
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 12:42pm
On Thursday, July 22, the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History’s Sam Rayburn Museum in Bonham teamed up for an in-depth webinar exploring the life and career of one of the most influential Americans in the 20th century.
This was the first in a new series delving into specific facets of Sam Rayburn’s personal life and political...
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