local history

The Living Heritage Trades Academy teaches a new generation about preserving San Antonio’s historic character.

From Texas Standard: It’s inevitable that some of the institutions we rely on today won't be used in the future. Consider the manual typewriter or the...

Updated 2:47 p.m.You may have seen it while driving on Hildebrand, approaching Broadway, there’s a massive, tiled gate. Inside are curious sculptures and…

There’s a cemetery along Perrin-Beitel Road on San Antonio’s Northeast side. Buried there are people with the names Eisenhauer, Rittimann, Wurzbach —…

From Texas Standard . Much of Texas woke up to frozen roads and windshields covered in ice this morning – a bad winter storm, to be sure. But as winter...

From a retro celebration on the west side, to hot jazz, to a fully air-conditioned musical, there's plenty to do in the Alamo City this weekend.First off…

For some residents on the Southwest Side the name Old Highway 90 West is one of character and neighborhood identity. And while the road remains, the…

It's thought that Genene Jones is responsible for the murder of at least 46 infants and children that were in her care while working as a nurse for the…

In the 17th and 18th centuries the Spanish sought to extend their colonies by settling in what is now Bexar County. An exhibit opening this week in San…

A long quiet history of the Tejano baseball leagues is starting to raise its voice. In the early 1900s, baseball in south Texas was a big deal. The…