A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

When the Civil War ended and with it the last vestiges of slavery in the United States, the newly freed enslaved, termed ...

AN uneasy peace existed in the settlement at the headwaters of the Connecticut River known as Indian Stream. Both the United ...