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by Brewing America | Apr 9, 2021 | All, Books, History, Politics & Policy, Texas politics, UT Press | 0 |
Texans take a singular pride in their state’s politics. Where else can one find such entertaining grandiosity, unpredictability, and sprawling variety in one place? Pretty much nowhere, as the veteran Austin journalist Bill...
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While working in the archives at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, the historian Michael Collins came across what he describes, somewhat hyperbolically, as “a buried...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 5, 2021 | All, Feminism, History, Louise Raggio, Texans You Should Know, texas legislature | 0 |
Around this time of year, Louise Raggio’s three sons miss the smell of cookies wafting from the compact kitchen in their childhood home. On the minuscule counter space, she’d prepare dozens of fruitcakes, peanut butter...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 15, 2020 | All, Comanche, History, texas rangers | 0 |
Early accounts of the Battle of Pease River read like Hollywood film treatments from the fifties. A dashing young hero, Sul Ross, led a small force of Texas Rangers, U.S. cavalry troops, and militia volunteers into combat...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 19, 2020 | All, History, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Dallas, The 19th Amendment, The Culture | 0 |
“I love to play Katherine, from The Taming of the Shrew,” says Gloria Vivica Benavides, looking straight into the camera. “People say she’s feisty and opinionated. I want us all to be feisty and opinionated. I love it when women...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 18, 2020 | All, Archaeology, History, Texans You Should Know, Texas history, The Culture | 0 |
On the evening of August 27, 1908, dark clouds gathered over the Dry Cimarron River along the New Mexico–Colorado border. Sarah Rooke, the phone operator in Folsom, New Mexico, called as many people as she could to warn them...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 4, 2020 | All, Athletes, documentary, Film, History, Olympics, Sports, The Culture | 0 |
On October 17, 1968, American track-and-field athlete Tommie Smith won the gold medal for the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Mexico City. As he took the podium and the National Anthem played, he and his teammate John Carlos...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 13, 2020 | All, History, John F. Kennedy, Lackland Air Force Base, Longreads | 0 |
On the clear, cool morning of November 13, 1963, a convoy flanked by blue Air Force police cars with flashing lights turned off the tarmac at Kelly Air Force Base, southwest of downtown San Antonio. It wound its way carefully...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 19, 2020 | All, Confederate statues, History, Pompeo Coppini, texas rangers | 0 |
Statues, the best of them, have a puzzling power. They cast a spell of stillness. The placid, unassertive way a bronze figure stands there, gazing out at some middle distance, creates an illusion that it has assumed control of...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 18, 2020 | All, Country Queers, History, LGBT, LGBTQ History, Media, Podcast, Rural | 0 |
Rae Garringer, 35, describes the rural sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia they grew up on as “one of the most beautiful places” they’ve ever seen. “As a small kid growing up there, it’s just magical to get to play in those...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 7, 2020 | All, Clint Murchison, H.L. Hunt, History, Hugh Roy Cullen, Joe McCarthy | 0 |
Every demagogue needs enablers to help him grab power and hold on to it. In Senator Joe McCarthy’s case, newly unveiled records suggest that his most generous benefactors had Texas zip codes. That backing started just after...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 7, 2020 | All, convict leasing, Fort Bend County, History, News, Race, Sugar Land | 0 |
When I first met him in 2016, Reginald Moore was deeply frustrated. The retired longshoreman had spent much of the previous two decades trying—without much success—to bring attention to the brutal convict leasing system that...
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