History

A recent event hosted by the San Antonio African America Community Archive & Museum brought together former players of the semi-professional South Texas Negro League to share their stories and expierences playing for the league.

He was a witness to the U.S.-Mexico War. Not the 1846-to-1848 invasion, but the 1914 U.S. invasion and occupation of Mexico. It was documented by an American postcard photographer. He left behind a compelling visual record of a U.S. atrocity. Susan Toomey Frost joins us to tell the story.

San Antonio's Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) works to advance forgotten chapters of Mexican American civil rights in Texas and beyond. It will host a free symposium May 17 & 18 at the Central Library downtown.

A lack of air support and ineffective coordination hurt efforts to contain this year's Panhandle fires, the committee said.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.

Nosotrxs Por El Valle, a group of historians and activists from the Rio Grande Valley, have launched a traveling exhibit to share the community's history with residents. Co-founder Juan Carmona and three of the group's members discuss the experience.

The new podcast explores diverse stories of Texas, from how corridos served as historical storytelling devices, to the anti-Mexican violence by the Texas Rangers in the early 20th century. Host John Phillips Santos discusses more about the project.

Artifacts recovered during excavation efforts of the 300-year-old structure include Spanish Colonial ceramics, Goliad ceramics, musket balls, lithic debitage, and gunflints.

Growing up in the South, Faust rejected the narrative she was fed about slavery and the Civil War. She writes about her journey to activism and becoming the president of Harvard in Necessary Trouble.

The quarter honors the life and contributions of South Texas journalist and activist, Jovita Idár. Idár is one of five women highlighted as part of the 2023 American Women Quarters program.