Reflecting on a century of Austin’s Black history

Austin dedicated this month in conjunction with the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural, and Genealogy Center to showcase Black history, but the City has its own unique story when it comes to ...
The Austin Chronicle

A Short History of Professional Baseball in Austin

1839: The city of Austin is established as the capital of the Republic of Texas. 1845: Alexander Joy Cartwright implements the first game of modern baseball at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J. 1869 ...
Yahoo

The deadliest tornado in Austin history and the family it erased

Big stories need big space. Sometimes, newspapers spread out such articles over several pages, or “jumps,” in a single issue. At other times, we launch a series. Tornadoes are big stories. When it ...

The Black leaders behind the names of Texas schools, from Blackshear to Jordan

From the outset, “Edward L. Blackshear at Prairie View,” a new book by John A. Adams Jr. (Texas A&M University Press), ...