Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels inspired Ken Burns to make his documentary, The Civil War. When Burns’s series first aired on PBS for five...

The craziest thing that ever happened to me at a performance occurred during a full-company musical production of Seekers of the Fleece in Cody,...

As blazing timbers crashed downward, destroying a once lovely adobe home and the dreams of its occupants, an era of hostility and bloodshed also...

For fans of Western movies, the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War kicked off a few months early, when True Grit opened at...

Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ron DeLord (History Press, $29.99), focuses on the 800 or so Texas lawmen (“good and bad”) who...

Suppressed history indeed! In The Suppressed History of America, sparks fly from Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag’s documented raid upon America’s...

Margaret E.P. Gordon lived a century (1866-1966) and documented the changes and progress she witnessed in her amazing life. In the volume Pansy’s...

One of a new generation of Texas historians, Glen Sample Ely takes up his literary bowie knife and slices Texas into two different states in Where...

In The Case of the Indian Trader, we learn that for more than 40 years, Billy Malone had cultivated a trusting relationship with the Navajo Indians....