U.S. History

Gov. Rick Perry: Standing Against Gays in Boy Scouts Akin to Sam Houston's Refusal to Align with the Confederacy

The Boy Scouts of America is proposing to lift its ban on gay youths, but to leave it in place once those gay Scouts become gay adults. This compromise -- gays Scouts, no gay scoutmasters -- apparently is an assault on the very foundations of scoutdom. The Family Research Council sponsors a hyperve ... More >>

Confederate Group Shuns Memphis, Moves Convention to Civil War Hotbed Richardson

There's been a bit of a fuss lately over the Memphis City Council's decision to change the name of three city parks, scrubbing them clean of any reference to the Confederacy in hopes of making them more inviting to residents who may not exactly have felt welcome in early-1860s Tennessee. Gone are J ... More >>

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Remembering Levon Helm

Last Friday, Voice Media Group announced the winners of their first music writing awards. This winning piece by Jesse Sykes first appeared in Seattle Weekly's print edition. By Jesse Sykes As I was growing up in New York state--where the residents want you to know they don't live in "The City"--th ... More >>

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Ably Fill the Hat

Arizona Whitewashes American History in Texas

Preview: Soul Train Dance Party at the Texas Theatre

Saturday, February 25, at Texas Theatre

The Favorite Foods of All 44 Presidents

​After an exhaustive search of public records and historical documents at the Library of Congress (read: drunken Google search), we are ready to honor President's Day with a comprehensive list of the foods enjoyed by our fearless leaders of the past. Throughout this process one question continued ... More >>

Gorgeous George

As the Governor Declares August 6 "Day of Prayer and Fasting," One Response to Rick Perry's "The Response" Event

From Governor Rick Perry's Flickr pageRick Perry and Sarah Palin at that Heroic Media event at the Majestic Theatre last November​Speaking of over-the-weekenders, the morning paper had a pay wall piece Saturday about Governor Rick Perry's "call to prayer for a nation in crisis" scheduled for Augus ... More >>

Grab Your Stovepipe and Dance

Poster of the Week: Titus Andronicus at Club Dada on Wednesday Night

​ Titus Andronicus' phenomenal 2010 release, The Monitor, is a fairly dense album -- not necessarily because of its visceral combination of punk aesthetic with indie rock instrumentation, but because of its subject matter, which centers around the Civil War. So it's quite fitting then, that the An ... More >>

Of Broccoli-Hating, Deranged Bowels and Ex-Presidents

Yeah, we don't like broccoli either.​Abraham Lincoln had plenty of notable characteristics, but a healthy appetite wasn't among them. Even his stepmother wasn't impressed by his eating habits: "Abe was a moderate eater," she recalled. Lincoln typically ate an egg for breakfast and an apple for ... More >>

The Eaters in Chief

Thomas Jefferson: great taste in food -- plus he helped give us that whole separation of church/state thing.​The federal holiday Americans observe next Monday was originally designed to honor George Washington. But when the government standardized its celebrations in 1968, they stuck the annua ... More >>

Barack Obama and Our Most Athletic Presidents

​Wasn't exactly Cortland Finnegan vs. Andre Johnson, but The Prez got into a scuffle last Friday. On the basketball court. With an elbow. Barack Obama received 12 stitches to a cut on his lower lip after an errant elbow during a pick-up game by Rey Decerega, the Director of Programs for ... More >>

Explore Some Art

Titus Andronicus Tries To Right The Ship

Handle The Proof: The Spirit Of '76

Ben Franklin and John Adams, possibly discussing where to go for booze, in 1776.In the musical 1776, Stephen "Old Grape and Guts" Hopkins bursts into the Continental Congress' meeting room each morning demanding rum before getting down to the day's business. Of course, there may have been some licen ... More >>

North, South, Blue, Gray

Nuts For Carver

The African-American Museum salutes An Extraordinary Man

Sing And Sign

1776 celebrates that important Declaration

On Sale, T.J. Tees for True Patriots

Proud of My Fellow T.J. Patriots

R.C. Hickman, One of the Most Important Photographers in Dallas' History, Has Died

Get Con-Fed Up

Home, home in the Village...

The Dogcatcher

See Ice Cube's dad in Addison

Aping Abraham

See Lincolnesque in Fort Worth

What's the Deal?

FDR clowns around at Stone Street

History, in the Ring

Jefferson Scholarship

Today belongs to TJ at TCU

Because of Dixie Win

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

Tinseltown Treasures

Tyler's reels get special screenings

Photo Galleria

Nordstrom hosts black history in pictures

Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Death From Above 1979

Art From A to Z

The DMA's great American paper chase

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for a good movie... like Con Air

New Look at New England

Look in the cupboards at Cherished Possessions: A New EnglandLegacy

Suck It

Mug down on mudbugs during Crawfest 2004

Riding High

Frisco has its own field of dreams

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Killing in the Name of...

These Generals frequently speak the name of the Lord, but is it in vain?

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Buzz

Mission improbable; Whistling Dixie

Southern fried

What's in a name? A lot of ugly history, at least when it comes to Jefferson Davis Elementary.

Biting the hand

New Theatre's Stonewall Jackson's House is an exhausting, rewarding comic debate

Banter

Stonewall Jackson's House would be politically incorrect, but Jimmy hates that term

Crying fowl

Wildlife activists claim that the managers at Samuell Farm Park are abusing the land, its animals, and anyone else who gets in their way

Presidential suite

History in the making

Richardson video company searches for past heroes and gets rave reviews

Out of bounds

GOP congressional candidate Sessions crosses lines to get son into prized school