Texas
701 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Annexation, War with Mexico, and the Texas of Eighteen Forty-Eight
- Comanche, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Apache, Nations of the Plains and Coast
- Cotton, Slavery, and the Texas That Seceded
- Juneteenth, Galveston, June Nineteenth, Eighteen Sixty-Five
- Scale, Geography, and the Five Texases
- Spindletop, January Tenth, Nineteen Oh One, and the Age of Oil
- The Caddo, First Peoples of the Piney Woods and the Red River
- The Camino Real, Spain's Royal Road Across Texas
- The Cattle Drives, Longhorns, the Chisholm Trail, and the Open Range
- The King Ranch, Four Counties and the Texas Cattle Empire
- The Six Flags and the Land That Held Them All
- The Texas Revolution, San Jacinto and the Eighteen Minutes That Made a Republic
Near Alpine
- Alpine: From Murphyville to the Heart of Big Bend Country
- Brewster County: Texas' Biggest, Most Empty Place
- Gateway to Big Bend: The Park at the End of the Road
- Kokernot Field: A Ranch Fortune's Gift to Baseball
- Museum of the Big Bend: A Century of the Trans-Pecos
- Sul Ross State University: The College That Grew a Town
- The Holland Hotel: Alpine's Spanish Colonial Landmark
Near Brownsville
- Américo Paredes: The Ballad and the Border
- Charles Stillman and the Founding of Brownsville
- Charro Days: Hands Across the Bridge
- Fort Brown: A Century on the Rio Grande
- Juan Cortina and the First Cortina War
- Resaca de la Palma: Taylor's Rout and the War's First Days
- Resaca de la Palma: The Rout
- Resacas: The Old River Beds of Brownsville
- San Benito: Freddy Fender's Town
- The Brownsville Affair: One Hundred Sixty-Seven Soldiers
- The Cotton Road: Brownsville in the Civil War
- The Crossing: Brownsville's Origins
- The Flying Artillery at Palo Alto
- The Plan of San Diego and the Borderlands War
- The Ship Channel: Brownsville Reaches the Gulf
Near Corpus Christi
- Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Names the Bay
- Battle of Corpus Christi, 1862
- Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD, Brown Extended
- Dr. Hector P. Garcia and the American GI Forum
- Henry Kinney's Outpost and the Birth of a City
- Mirador de la Flor, the Pilgrimage Site on the Seawall
- Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and the Wings of a War
- Selena, and the City That Shaped Her
- September Fourteen, Nineteen Nineteen
- The Karankawa Kadla Today
- The Karankawa, Keepers of the Gulf Coast
- The Nueces Strip, the Border Nobody Owned
- The Port That Made Corpus Christi
- The Queen of Tejano: Selena Quintanilla
- The USS Lexington, the Blue Ghost
- Whataburger, Twenty-Five Cents on Ayers Street
Near El Paso
- El Paso Strong: August Third, Two Thousand Nineteen
- Fort Bliss: A Century and a Half Guarding the Pass of the North
- Fort Bliss: From Frontier Post to Cold War Arsenal
- Operation Paperclip at Fort Bliss
- Pershing Rides From Fort Bliss
- San Elizario: The Town That Saw Everything First
- Socorro, Texas, One of America's Oldest Towns
- The Camino Real: Sixteen Hundred Miles of Imperial Road
- The Mission Trail: Built by Whose Hands
- Ysleta Mission: The Oldest Parish in Texas
Near Fredericksburg
- Chester Nimitz and the Museum of the Pacific War
- Enchanted Rock: A Billion Years Underfoot
- Enchanted Rock: A Billion-Year-Old Dome in the Hill Country
- Fort Martin Scott: Frontier Between Two Worlds
- Fredericksburg: The German Town That Made Its Own Peace
- Fredericksburg: The Treaty That Held
- Hill Country Wine and the Peach Belt
- LBJ Signs the Civil Rights Act: The Texas Paradox
- Quanah Parker: The Last Free Comanche
- Sunday Houses: A Uniquely German-Texan Invention
- The Bracero Program: Guest Workers in Hill Country Fields
- The Easter Fires: An Ancient Custom on Texas Hilltops
- The German-Texans: Anti-Slavery in a Slave Republic
- The LBJ Ranch: The Texas White House on the Pedernales
- Vereins Kirche: The Octagonal Heart of the Settlement
Near Killeen
- Before the Railroad: Bell County's Older Layers
- Belton, Texas: Bell County's First Seat
- Camp Hood: Tank Destroyers and Displaced Communities
- Forty-Five Thousand Soldiers: Fort Hood in the Modern Wars
- Larger Than Rhode Island: The Scale of Fort Hood
- Marlboro Heights: Segregation and Integration in a Military Town
- October Sixteenth, Nineteen Ninety-One
- Salado: The College Town That Stagecoaches Built
- Stillhouse Hollow: The Lampasas River Dammed and Made into a Lake
- Temple, Texas: Born at the Railroad Switch
- The Baines House: LBJ's Great-Grandfather in Salado
- The Corridor: Killeen, Temple, and the Military Region
- The Czech Belt: Central Texas and the Immigrants Who Shaped It
- The Iron Fist: Cold War Armor at Fort Hood
- The Name on the Gate: From Hood to Cavazos and Back
- The Railroad Name: How Killeen Got Its Town
- Thirteen Hundred to One Hundred Fifty-Three Thousand: The Military Boomtown
Near Laredo
Near Lubbock
- Abernathy, Texas
- American Wind Power Center
- Buddy Holly: Lubbock's Most Famous Son
- Comanchería: The Empire on the Plains
- Cotton Capital: The Largest Contiguous Cotton Region on Earth
- Dry County: Lubbock and Prohibition's Long Shadow
- Mac Davis: Songwriter from the Hub City
- New Deal, Texas
- Reese Air Force Base: Pilot Training on the High Plains
- Texas Tech: West Texas Fights for Its University
- The Lubbock Lights: UFOs Over the South Plains
- The Night the Tornado Took a Quarter of Lubbock
- The Staked Plains: Edge of the Llano Estacado
- The Town That Rolled Itself Across a Canyon
- The XIT and the Ranching Heritage
- Twelve Thousand Years: The Lubbock Lake Landmark
- Waylon Jennings: West Texas, Guilt, and Outlaw Country
- Yellow House Canyon: Where the Plains Break Open
Near Marfa
- El Paisano Hotel: The Inn That Holds Marfa's History
- Fort DA Russell: The Army at the Edge of the Border
- Giant Comes to Marfa: Hollywood in the High Desert
- Marfa and the Art Migration: Who Gets Pushed Out
- Marfa and the Movies That Keep Coming Back
- Marfa: The Town That Became an Art World
- Marfa: The Water Stop at the Edge of the World
- The Marfa Mystery Lights: Desert Optics and the 1883 Record
Near Mcallen
- Alamo, Texas
- Bentsen-Rio Grande: Where the Tropics Reach Texas
- Donna: Named for the Daughter
- John McAllen and the Day the Railroad Arrived
- La Lomita: The Little Hill by the River
- Mission: The Grapefruit Capital
- Narciso Martínez: The Hurricane of the Valley
- Nineteen Fifteen: The Plan de San Diego and La Matanza
- Pharr: Sugar Dreams on the Rio Grande
- Progreso: The Bridge That Moved a River
- The Bracero Program: Hands That Built the Valley
- The Citrus Empire: John Shary and the Grapefruit Capital
- The City of Palms: Nineteen Sixteen's Twenty Thousand Soldiers
- The Coahuiltecans: One Thousand Bands
- The Colonias: Outside the Water Line
- The Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR: Five Percent Remaining
- The Parakeets of McAllen: Tropical Birds on a Border City
- The Porciones: Land Shaped Like Fingers
- Weslaco, Texas
Near Midland Odessa
- Boobie Miles and the Injury That Changed Everything
- Boom, Bust, Repeat: The Rhythms of the Oil Town
- Friday Night Lights: What the Book Found
- Laura Bush's Midland: What the Flat Land Made
- Midland Army Airfield: Where Bombardiers Were Made
- Midland: The Midway Point
- New London, Nineteen Thirty-Seven: The Explosion That Changed Gas Forever
- Permian Panthers: Five Championships and a Question About Cost
- Santa Rita Number One: The Well That Built a University
- The Commemorative Air Force: Rebels with a Cause
- The Odessa Meteorite Crater: Impact on the Plains
- The Petroleum Museum: Reading the Rock
- The Sea That Made the Basin
- The Shale Revolution: When the Basin Came Back
- The Staked Plains: Where the Sky Has No Edges
- Two Presidents and a Boyhood in the Oil Patch
Near San Antonio
- Battle of Concepción, 1835
- Battle of Medina, August 1813: The Bloodiest Battle in Texas History
- Bracken: The Town That Changed Its Name for the Post Office
- Conjunto: The Sound Born in San Antonio
- Fort Sam Houston: Where Military Aviation Was Born
- Founding Day, May 1718
- Guenther House: Pioneer Flour Mills
- HemisFair '68: Confluence of Civilizations
- Henry B. González: Thirty-Seven Years in the House
- Kelly Field: Where American Military Aviation Was Born
- La Pasionaria: Emma Tenayuca and the Pecan Shellers Strike
- La Villita: The Little Town That Survived
- Lackland: The Gateway to the Air Force
- Mission Espada: The First Mission in Texas
- Mission San José: The Queen of the Missions
- Mission San Juan: The Acequia That Still Flows
- San Antonio Missions: UNESCO's Five, and Who Built Them
- San Antonio: The Mission Trail on the Interstate
- San Fernando Cathedral: The Oldest Sanctuary in Texas
- Selena: Tejano's Last and Largest Moment
- Spanish Governor's Palace: Last Wall of a Vanished Empire
- Tejano Music: The Accordion Sound That German Settlers Left Behind
- Terrell Hills: The Suburb That Beat San Antonio in Court
- The 1921 Flood and the River Walk That Came From It
- The Acequia System: Water Engineering Older Than the Nation
- The Alamo, February to March 1836
- The Alamo: Three Men, One Myth, and the History They Left Out
- The Alamodome and the Spurs: San Antonio's Basketball Dynasty
- The Chili Queens of Military Plaza
- The Coahuiltecan and the Mission System: A People the Missions Consumed
- The Grass Fight: Silver Dreams on the San Antonio Road
- The Pearl: San Antonio's Brewing Empire
- The Rough Riders, May 1898
- The Spanish Governor's Palace: The Only One Left
- The Sutton House and the Black East Side
- The West Side: Barrio, Memory, and Displacement
- The Yturri-Edmunds House: Adobe and Acequia
- Universal City: Built on a Bet About an Airfield
- University of the Incarnate Word: From Epidemic to Education
- UTSA: The City That Had No Public University
- Yanaguana: The Payaya and San Pedro Springs
Near Shreveport
Near Terlingua
- Big Bend National Park: The Most Remote Park in the Lower Forty-Eight
- Big Bend, 1944: Wilderness By Eviction
- Chisos Apache: The People Whose Name Survived, Whose Nation Did Not
- Hallie Stillwell: Schoolteacher, Rancher, Queen of Terlingua
- Pancho Villa's Border and the 1916 Crisis
- Santa Elena Canyon: The Rio Grande's Greatest Cut
- Terlingua Mercury: The Poison Mine Nobody Cleaned Up
- Terlingua: The Mine Town That Became a Ghost Town That Became a Legend
- The Chisos Basin: The Only Park Containing an Entire Mountain Range
- The Day Texas Chili Took On the World
- The Ghost Town That Refused to Stay Dead
- The Terlingua Cemetery: A Mining Town's Enduring Memory
Near Tyler
- Camp Fannin: When Tyler Trained Two Hundred Thousand Soldiers
- Camp Ford: The Prison West of the Mississippi
- Dad Joiner and the Daisy Bradford Number Three
- Earl Campbell: The Tyler Rose
- East Texas in the Depression: What Cheap Oil Costs
- Fouke Community: Center of Wood County
- Named for a President: The Founding of Tyler, Texas
- Plyler v. Doe: The Tyler School Case That Reached the Supreme Court
- The Brick Streets District: Tyler's Urban Archaeology
- The Caddo Homeland: First People of East Texas
- The Caldwell Zoo: From Easter Bunnies to Five Hundred Species
- The Goodman-LeGrand House: Tyler's Victorian Survivor
- The NAACP Files in Tyler: Civil Rights and Institutional Resistance
- The Rose Capital: How Tyler Became America's Rose City
- The Tyler Tap: A Railroad Born from Local Desperation
Near Waco
- Baylor and the Republic of Texas
- Baylor University: Oldest in Texas, Founded by a Republic
- Baylor: Oldest University in Texas
- Dr Pepper, Invented Right Here
- Lorena: Named at Auction
- May 11, 1953: The F-Five
- Mount Carmel: February 28 to April 19, 1993
- Rich Field, Waco's First Airfield
- Ross: Named for a Texas Ranger and Governor
- Texas Ranger Hall of Fame: Two Centuries of the Oldest State Police
- Texas Sports Hall of Fame: The First of Its Kind
- The ALICO Building: Tallest West of the Mississippi
- The Brazos River: Central Texas's Spine
- The Bridge That Opened the West
- The Cotton Palace and Waco's First Boom
- The Crisis Circular: How Waco Became a National Story
- The People the City is Named For
- The Silos: When a TV Show Rebuilt a City
- The Texas Rangers: Three Centuries of History in One Building
- The Waco Founder and the Bluff Above the Springs
- The Waco Horror: May 15, 1916
- The Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington
- The Waco Mammoths: A Herd That Drowned Together
- The Waco Siege
- Twin Peaks: Nine Dead, One Hundred Seventy-Seven Arrested, Zero Convicted
- Waco on the I-35 Corridor: The City Between
- West, Texas: Czech Stop of the Known World
- West, Texas: The Night the Ammonium Nitrate Ignited
Along the way
- Abbott: Birthplace of Willie Nelson
- Abilene Christian University
- Acton State Historic Site: Elizabeth Crockett's Final Home
- Adrian, Texas
- Alanreed, Texas
- Aledo, Texas
- Allan Shivers Library and Museum, Woodville
- Alleyton: The Railroad's First Stop West
- Alma, Texas: Named for a Daughter
- Amarillo and Cadillac Ranch: Art You Can Spray-Paint
- Amarillo: Cattle, Helium, and the Cadillacs
- American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
- American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, Amarillo
- Amon Carter Museum: The West as Fine Art
- Amon G. Carter Stadium, TCU Horned Frogs Football
- Anderson County Courthouse, Palestine
- Angelo State University: Integration and the West Texas Underdog
- Anson: The Cowboys' Christmas Ball
- Apollo Thirteen: Houston, We've Had a Problem Here. April Thirteenth, Nineteen Seventy
- Arlington Stadium: The Rangers Find a Home
- Aspermont: The Rough Mountain
- AT&T Stadium: The House Jerry Jones Built
- Atlanta, Texas: Named for Home
- Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum
- Austin City Limits: The Camera That Named a Scene
- Austin's 1928 City Plan and the Making of East Austin
- Avenger Field and the WASPs
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Every Sport She Touched
- Baird, Texas
- Ballinger: Six Thousand at the Land Sale
- Balmorhea: Springs in the Desert
- Barron Field: Fort Worth's First Flying School
- Barton Springs and the Salamander That Stopped Development
- Bass Reeves: Three Thousand Arrests, Never Wounded
- Battle of Blanco Canyon: Quanah Parker's Midnight Raid
- Battle of La Ebonal: The End of the First Cortina War
- Battle of Village Creek
- Beaumont Before the Boom: Tevis Bluff to County Seat
- Beauxart Gardens
- Beeville: Irish Ranchers and a Naval Air Station
- Belcherville, Texas
- Ben Ficklin: Drowned County Seat
- Benbrook Field: Where the Flying Triangle Trained the War's First Pilots
- Benbrook, Texas: The Man Who Brought the Railroad
- Beyonce: Third Ward, Destiny's Child, and the Geography of a Voice
- Big Tex and the State Fair of Texas
- Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas
- Big Texan Steak Ranch, The Seventy-Two Ounce Challenge
- Bill Minter and the Aransas Pass Shrimp Industry
- Black Dallas and the Panthers
- Blanket, Texas: Named for a Rainstorm
- Boerne: Named for a Radical Who Never Came
- Boise, Texas: The Panhandle Ghost That Never Quite Formed
- Bonham, Texas
- Bonnie and Clyde: What the Movie Left Out
- Boys Ranch and the Ghost of Old Tascosa
- Brady: Heart of Texas
- Brashear, Texas
- Brookshire: Where the Rice Fields Begin
- Brownwood: Oil, Education, and the Cross Timbers Hub
- Buffalo Bayou and the Cistern: What Houston Buried and Rediscovered
- Buffalo Soldiers and the Moral Trap of Fort Davis
- Buffalo Soldiers: Black Cavalry in the Texas Interior
- Buffalo, Texas: Named for the Herds That Were Already Gone
- Burkburnett, Texas: The Boomtown Oil Town
- Burnet: The Pink Granite That Built the Capitol
- Burnett Field: Forty Years of Dallas Baseball
- Cactus Jack: America's Thirty-Second Vice President
- Cactus: Company Town, World's Largest ICE Raid
- Caddo and LBJ National Grasslands: Prairie Remnants in the Post Oak Belt
- Caddo Mills, Texas
- Caddo Nation: North Texas Before Texas
- Cadillac Ranch
- Cadillac Ranch, Ten Cars Buried in a Wheat Field Forever
- Camp Resolution, Texan Santa Fe Expedition
- Campbell, Texas
- Canadian, Texas, River Town on the Caprock Edge
- Canton: First Monday and the World's Oldest Flea Market
- Carrizo Springs: Artesian Wells and the Eagle Ford Boom
- Carrollton: Peters Colony's Mill Town
- Castroville: The Little Alsace of Texas
- Centerville, Texas: Moved to the Middle
- Charles Goodnight and the JA Ranch
- Childress, Texas, Named for the Declaration
- Childress: Named for the Man Who Wrote Texas Free
- Chillicothe: Named for Missouri, Rebuilt After Fire
- Choctaw Stadium: The Ballpark the Rangers Left Behind
- Cisco, Texas, Where Hilton Hotels Began
- Clarendon: Where the Saints Roosted
- Clarksville: Austin's Oldest Black Neighborhood and Its Disappearance
- Coleman's Carnegie Library
- Colorado City, Texas
- Columbus, Texas: Where Stephen Austin Drew the Line
- Comfort: The Freethinkers' Town
- Confederate War Memorial, Dallas
- Corsicana: Texas's First Oil Strike and the World's Most Mailed Fruitcake
- Cotton Bowl Stadium: Where Texas and Oklahoma Come to Fight
- Cotulla: Where LBJ Learned What Poverty Looked Like
- Cowboys of Color: The West's Hidden Half
- Crystal City: Spinach Capital and Political Uprising
- Crystal City: The Family Internment Camp Nobody Talks About
- Cuero: The Turkey Capital
- Cynthia Ann Parker: Captured, Comanche, Forcibly Returned
- Dalhart and the Ranch That Built a Capitol
- Dalhart Army Air Base: Gliders, Flying Fortresses, and the Texas Panhandle
- Dallas Arboretum: Oil Money, Live Oaks, and White Rock Lake
- Dallas Union Station
- Dealey Plaza, Twelve-Thirty in the Afternoon
- Decatur: The Stagecoach Stop That Changed Its Name
- Denton's Courthouse: Pink Granite and Prairie Ambition
- Devine: Named for a Judge Who Never Lived Here
- Dickinson: Strawberry Capital of the Gulf Coast
- Dilley: The Town That Moved Its Name
- Dryden: West Texas Ghost Town on the Sunset Route
- Dublin, Texas: The Oldest Dr Pepper Bottler in the World
- Dumas: Grasshoppers, Ghost Town, Comeback
- Duncanville: The Town Named by a Railroad Foreman
- Eastland, Texas, Old Rip
- Eden: Named for a Ranchman, Not a Garden
- Eisenhower Birthplace, Denison
- El Campo: Rice, Wells, and the Coastal Prairie
- El Capitan: The Reef at the Edge of the World
- Electra: Cattle Town to Oil Boom
- Elisabet Ney: The Sculptor Who Shocked Austin
- Ellington Field: From Biplane Training Ground to Astronaut Runway
- Emancipation Park: Four Freedmen, Eight Hundred Dollars, Eighteen Seventy-Two
- Encinal: Oak Grove on the Road to Laredo
- Ennis: Czech Polkas, Bluebonnets, and the Iron Road South
- Erykah Badu: Oak Cliff, Deep Ellum, and Neo-Soul
- Estelline: Where Western Swing Was Born
- Fair Park Nineteen Thirty-Six
- Fair Park: The Art Deco World's Fair That Stayed
- Fairfield: County Seat Carved from Mound Prairie
- Farmers Branch: Dallas County's Oldest Settlement
- Ferris, Texas: The City That Bricked the World
- Flatonia: Where the Czechs Arrived with the Rails
- FM 170 Camino del Rio: The Road That Hugs the River
- Fort Clark: Frontier Anchor on the Rio Grande Road
- Fort Concho and the Buffalo Soldiers of West Texas
- Fort Davis and the Apache Wars: Victorio's Campaign
- Fort Hancock, Texas, Border Outpost at the River Bend
- Fort Inge and the Line That Held the Hill Country
- Fort Lincoln: The Frontier Post That Lasted Three Years
- Fort Richardson and the Warren Wagon Train Raid
- Fort Stockton: Comanche Springs and the Buffalo Soldiers
- Fort Worth Flatiron Building
- Fort Worth Stock Show: Cowtown's Living Tradition
- Fort Worth Was Built Against the Comanche
- Fort Worth Water Gardens
- Fort Worth Zoo: Texas's Oldest, Consistently Among the Best
- Frijole Ranch: First Settlers in the Guadalupes
- Gainesville Depot: Harvey House on the Texas Line
- Gainesville: Stagecoach Stop on the Southern Overland
- Galena Park: Lead Paint and Ship Channel Dreams
- Garrett, Texas: Fifteen Trains a Day
- George Floyd: Third Ward Houston, Born October Fourteenth, Nineteen Seventy-Three
- German-Texans Against Slavery: The Comfort Manifesto and the Nueces Massacre
- Gladys City: The Dream Before the Gusher
- Glenrio, Ghost Town on the State Line
- Glenrio: What a Ghost Town Actually Means
- Goliad: Where Texas Was Born and Nearly Lost
- Greenville's Infamous Banner
- Groom, Texas
- Gruene Hall and the Democracy of the Dance Floor
- Gruene: The Town the Dance Hall Saved
- Guadalupe Peak: Fossil Reef at Eight Thousand Feet
- Hall of State at Fair Park
- Happy, Texas
- Harlingen: Six-Shooter Junction to Iwo Jima
- Heman Sweatt and the University of Texas Law School Fight
- Hico: Where Billy the Kid Supposedly Grew Old
- High Hill: The Queen of the Painted Churches
- Highland Park: Caddo Trace to Beverly Hills of Texas
- Highlands, Texas: The Bayou's Former Boomtown
- Hillsboro: Named for a Tennessee Surgeon
- Hitchcock: A Widow's Bargain with the Railroad
- Hobby Airport: The Field That Had Three Names Before It Kept One
- Hooks, Texas
- Houston City Hall: WPA Deco on Bagby Street
- Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed. July Twentieth, Nineteen Sixty-Nine
- Houston's Energy Corridor: The Air You Are Breathing
- Houston's First Public Library: Andrew Carnegie's Fifty Thousand Dollars
- Hueco Tanks: Twenty Thousand Years at the Water
- Hueco Tanks: Water, Rock Art, and the Climbers Who Came Later
- Huntsville: Sam Houston's Last Home and Texas's First Prison
- Hurricane Harvey: The Flood That Followed the Fault Lines
- Hutchins, Texas
- Hutchins, Texas: Named for the Man Who Built the Railroad
- Interstate Forty's Ghost: The Route Sixty-Six Layer
- Jacinto City: Industrial Houston's Eastern Frontier
- Jacksboro: Where Kiowa Chiefs Stood Trial
- Janis Joplin: Port Arthur Made Her, and She Left
- Jarrell: Named for a Real Estate Man, Remembered for a Tornado
- Jarrell: The F5 That Erased a Neighborhood
- Judge Roy Bean and the Saloon Court
- Junction: Where the Llano Rivers Meet
- Junction: Where Two Rivers Meet
- June Fifteenth, Nineteen Forty-Three: The Beaumont Race Riot
- June Nineteenth, Eighteen Sixty-Five: What Galveston Heard
- Katherine Anne Porter: Kyle's Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Katy, Texas: The Town the Railroad Named
- Kent, Texas: Antelope Country
- Kerrville: Mohair Capital of the World
- Kilgore National Bank: Art Moderne in the Oil Patch
- Kimbell Art Museum: The Building That Lets Light Think
- Kingsville: The Town the King Ranch Built
- Kountze: Gateway to the Big Thicket
- Kress, Texas
- Krum: Once the World's Largest Inland Grain Market
- Kyle: A Railroad Water Stop That Became a Boomtown
- La Feria: The Town That Stole Its Depot
- La Grange: Named for a French General's Chateau
- La Marque: Buttermilk Station Gets a French Name
- La Réunion, Dallas's Failed Utopia
- Lady Bird Johnson and the Wildflower Act: Beauty as Federal Policy
- Lamar University: The Junior College That Grew Up
- Lampasas: Birthplace of the Farmers Alliance
- Landmark Inn: Stage Stop on the Medina River
- Latino Houston: From Tejano Land Grants to Majority-Minority City
- League City: Where the Railroad Met the Space Race
- Leakey, Texas, Frio Canyon Gateway
- Leary, Texas
- Livingston: A Tennessee Town Reborn in Texas
- Luling: The Wildcatter Who Gave It All Away
- Madam Queen — Santa Fe Locomotive Five Thousand
- Madisonville, Texas: Founded on a Donated Tract, Named for a President
- Majors Field, Greenville
- Marathon: Gateway at the End of the Road
- Marble Falls: The Town That Drowned Its Own Name
- Marfa to Marathon: The Great Empty
- Marshall: Capital of the Confederacy West of the Mississippi
- Mathis, Texas
- McDonald Observatory: A Banker's Eccentric Bequest
- McLean, Texas
- Mean Green Nation: UNT Football and the House on the Highway
- Memphis, Texas: Where Bob Wills Learned to Fiddle
- Menard: The Mission That Lasted Less Than a Year
- Mercedes, Texas
- Merkel, Texas
- Mertzon: The County Seat That Won an Election in 1936
- Mexia, Boom Town on the Balcones Fault
- Midlothian: Cement Capital of Texas
- Miles, Texas: The Man Who Bought a Railroad Stop
- Mineola Railroad Junction
- Mission Espíritu Santo: Texas's First Cattle Ranch
- Mission San Sabá: The Mission That Ended Spanish Expansion in Texas
- Monahans, Texas
- Mont Belvieu: A City Built on Underground Caverns
- Montrose and Annise Parker: The First Openly Gay Mayor of a Major American City
- Mount Pleasant Colored School, Weatherford
- Mount Vernon, Texas: Franklin County's Long Road to a Name
- Munger Place Historic District
- Mustang, Texas: Incorporated to Sell Beer
- Nassau Bay: The Town NASA Built
- Natalia: Named for a Girl, Spelled Wrong
- National Cowgirl Museum: Women Who Rode the West
- Nederland, Texas
- New Boston: The County With Three Bostons
- O. Henry's Austin: The Short Story Master Who Fled and Never Came Back
- Old Main: Where Texas State Began
- Old Stone Fort: Four Revolutions in One Building
- Orange, Texas: The Gateway at the Sabine
- Ozona: The Town a Windmill Built
- Paducah: A Kentucky Name in the Texas Plains
- Paint Rock: A Half-Mile of Pictographs
- Palestine: Railroad Hub, Steam Trains, and Dogwood Trails
- Palmer, Texas: The Doctor's Town
- Palo Duro Canyon: The Grand Canyon of Texas
- Panhandle Gas and the Helium Capital
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
- Pantex: The Bomb Plant in the Wheat Fields
- Paris, Texas: The Town That Named Itself Hopefully
- Paul Quinn College
- Paul Quinn College: Oldest Black College West of the Mississippi
- Pearsall: Tent City on the Railroad, County Seat in a Year
- Pecos, Texas
- Pedernales: The Word That Tells You Whether You Belong
- Perryton: Wheatheart of the Nation
- Persimmon Gap: The Comanche Door
- Plainview: Where the South Plains Begins
- Port Lavaca: Born from a Raid
- Praha: The Mother Parish of Czech Texas
- Project Row Houses: Twenty-Two Shotgun Houses and Thirty Years
- Quanah: Named for the Last Comanche Chief
- Ranger: The Boom That Won a World War
- Rath City: A Million Hides and Then Nothing
- Refugio: Ireland on the Texas Gulf Coast
- Reunion Arena: Dallas Gets Major League
- Rice in the Gulf Clay: An Unexpected Agriculture
- Richmond, Texas: Republic Town, Violent Feud, First Black Sheriff
- Rio Grande City, Texas, Fort Ringgold and the Borderland
- Rita Blanca National Grassland: The Epicenter and the Land That Would Not Hold
- River Oaks: Atakapa Hunting Ground to Houston's Wealthiest Address
- Rockwall: The Town Named for a Mystery in the Ground
- Roosevelt, Texas: Named After a Charge Up a Hill
- Roscoe, Texas
- Rosenberg, The Junction Town Richmond Refused
- Rosenberg: Where the Railroad Made a City
- Route Sixty Six on Sixth Street
- Rowena: Where the Santa Fe Put Down Roots
- Salt Flat: End of the Road Town
- Sam Bell Maxey House
- Sam Houston Park: Houston's Oldest Park and Its Rescued Houses
- Sam Houston Regional Library: Southeast Texas's Memory Vault
- Sam Rayburn: The Speaker Who Never Left Bonham
- San Angelo: Wool Capital of the World at the Edge of the West
- San Clemente Mission: Texas's First East of the Pecos
- San Felipe de Austin: Where Texas Was Born and Burned
- San Ygnacio: The Fort on the Rio Grande
- Sanderson: Too Mean for Roy Bean
- Sanger: Named for a Family of Stores
- Scholz Garten: Texas's Oldest Beer Garden
- Schulenburg: Gateway to the Painted Churches
- Scottsville, Texas
- Seaholm Power Plant: Austin's Industrial Landmark
- Sealy, Texas: Named for the Man Who Slept on It
- Sebastopol House: Seguin's Concrete Miracle of 1856
- Seguin: Named for a Tejano Hero
- Selena: The Voice That Crossed Over and Then Was Gone
- Shafter, Texas: The Silver Capital That Vanished
- Shamrock, Texas, A Lucky Name on the Edge of the Panhandle
- Shamrock: Route Sixty-Six's Irish Lucky Charm
- Sheffield and Fort Lancaster: The Pecos Crossing
- Sierra Blanca, County Seat at the Edge of Nothing
- Six Flags Over Texas: Where the Theme Park Industry Was Born
- Sonora: Wool, Mohair, and the Cooperative
- Sons of Hermann Lodge: German Brotherhood in West Texas
- Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Southwestern University: Texas's Oldest
- Space Center Houston: Mission Control, Moon Rocks, and the Shuttle
- Spindletop: The Gusher That Made the Modern World
- Spindletop: The Morning of January Tenth, Nineteen Oh One
- Spring Lake: One of North America's Oldest Inhabited Places
- St. Edward's University: Notre Dame's Southern Outpost
- St. Patrick Cathedral: Fort Worth's First Catholic Anchor
- Starr Family Home: Four Generations of Texas History
- Steinbeck's Road and What They Were Actually Fleeing
- Stephenville: The Milk Capital of Texas
- Sterling City: One County, One Town
- Stratford: County Records Moved at Midnight
- Sugar Land: Karankawa Shore to Plantation to Convict Labor Camp to Suburb
- Sugar Land: The Company Town Built on Convict Labor
- Sulphur Springs: The Dairy Capital of Texas
- Sundown Towns: The Hill Country's Black Exclusion Zone
- Sweetwater: Blue Goose, Railroads, and Rattlesnakes
- T&P Station, Fort Worth
- Tarleton State University: A Texas Pioneer's Legacy
- Tascosa: The Ghost Town and Billy the Kid
- Tejano Radio and the Sound of the Invisible Majority
- Tennessee Colony: Cotton to Concrete
- Texas Air and Space Museum
- Texas and Pacific No. 610, The Superpower Steam Locomotive
- Texas Christian University
- Texas City, April Sixteenth, Nineteen Forty-Seven: Nine Twelve in the Morning
- Texas Southern University, Nineteen Sixty-Seven: The Riot Houston Forgot
- Texas Woman's University: A Different Kind of Education
- The 1940 Air Terminal: Streamline Moderne at Hobby Airport
- The Alabama-Coushatta: Refuge in the Thicket
- The American Quarter Horse: Fastest Animal on a Quarter Mile
- The Astrodome: The Eighth Wonder of the World and Its Slow Ruin
- The Atakapa-Ishak: People of the Neches Estuary
- The Baker Hotel: Crazy Water and the Texas Riviera
- The Battle of Coleto: Surrender on the Prairie
- The Battle of San Jacinto: Eighteen Minutes That Made a Country
- The Beer Can House
- The Big Texan and the Steak That Started on a Dare
- The Big Texan, Seventy-Two Ounces and an Hour to Prove It
- The Big Thicket: Where Four Worlds Collide
- The Black Seminole Scouts: Escaped Slavery, Then Scouted the West
- The Blackstone: Fort Worth's Art Deco Crown
- The Bracero Savings That Disappeared
- The Building That Belongs to Two States at Once
- The Cattle Capital: Feedlots and a Quarter of America's Beef
- The Chisholm Trail Ends Here
- The Comanche Trail: The Road That Was Already There
- The Dallas Buyers Club
- The Dust Bowl: Black Sunday Over Amarillo
- The First Tree on the Texas High Plains
- The Goliad Massacre: Palm Sunday, Eighteen Thirty-Six
- The Grace Museum
- The Hall of Negro Life: Built, Celebrated, Demolished
- The Highway That Ate a Community
- The King Ranch and the Empire Beyond the City
- The Lee Harvey Oswald Question
- The Lone Ranger's Real Name
- The Longhorn Ballroom: Bob Wills, Jack Ruby, and the Sex Pistols
- The McFaddin-Ward House: Oil Money in Marble and Wood
- The Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel: Oil Money Becomes Art
- The Modern: Fort Worth's Art Anchor Since 1892
- The Mustangs of Las Colinas
- The Neches and the War: Beaumont's Shipbuilding Years
- The Piney Woods Mills: Lumber Before Oil
- The Red River War: Tule Canyon, September 1874
- The Salt War of 1877
- The San Jacinto Monument: Taller Than Washington, Built for a Republic
- The Sea of Grass: Llano Estacado
- The Terrell Octagon House
- The Texas Theatre: Where History Walked In Without Paying
- The Trinity River and the City Built on Flood Control
- The U-Drop Inn, The Most Beautiful Gas Station on the Mother Road
- The West Texas Long Crossing
- The Wichita and the River Valleys They Named
- The Woodlands: Akokisa Hunting Ground to Ecological Suburb
- The XIT Ranch: Three Million Acres for a Capitol
- Three Rivers: Oil Refinery at the River Junction
- Thurber: Ten Thousand People, Then Nobody
- Timpson: Named for a Railroad Man
- Tom Landry's Cowboys and America's Team
- Toyah: Oldest Town in Reeves County
- Trevino-Uribe Rancho: The Oldest Surviving Ranch on the Rio Grande
- Troy: Old Town, New Town
- Tulia, Texas
- UNT: Where Jazz Became a Subject Worth a Degree
- UT Arlington: From Military Academy to Space Age
- Valley View: A Settler's Name for a Prairie Vista
- Van Horn, Texas, Crossroads at the Edge of the Basin
- Vega, Texas
- Vega: Last Town Before the New Mexico Line
- Velasco: Where Texas Was Born and Bound
- Vernon and Doan's Crossing: A Million Cattle Wide
- Vietnamese DFW: Forty Years of Roots
- Vietnamese Houston: The Alief Community After Nineteen Seventy-Five
- Waelder: The Railroad Absorbed a Town
- Wallace Pratt: The Oilman Who Saved McKittrick Canyon
- Waxahachie: Gingerbread City, Vanished Super-Collider, and Hollywood's Favorite Backdrop
- Weatherford, Texas
- Webster: Gardentown on the Road to Galveston
- Wedgwood Baptist: The Shooting That History Forgot
- Weimar: Named for a City Someone Once Liked
- Wellington: Won With Town Lots
- Wharton: The Texas Sugar Bowl
- Wheeler: First Organized County in the Panhandle
- White Rock Lake: Dallas's Reservoir That Became a Park
- White Settlement, Texas
- Wichita Falls Railroad Museum
- Wichita Falls: Oil, Rails, and a Waterfall That Wasn't
- Willie Nelson: Outlaw Country and the Armadillo World Headquarters
- Willis, Texas: The Town the Merchants Donated
- Wilmer, Texas: Named for the Man Who Punched the Tickets
- Winnie, Texas: Named for the Daughter of the Confederacy
- Woodland: Sam Houston's Dogtrot House in Huntsville
- Yellow Town: The Founding of Amarillo
- Zapata: The Town Beneath the Lake
- Zilker's Clay Pit Bucket Tower, Austin