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Sheriff defends Texas seven generations after ancestors fought for independence

(The Center Square) – A sheriff whose ancestors fought and died in the American Revolution and the Texas Revolution is continuing the fight for freedom in Goliad, Texas, this time ....

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How Hispanics helped slaves escape to Mexico on the Underground Railroad

This Hispanic Heritage month we shine a light on how Latinos helped slaves in Texas escape to Mexico for freedom. ....

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Dig into the history of Texas at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston

Texas history is one of the chief attractions at the 1904 Rosenberg Library, whose roots go back the 1971 Galveston Public Library. ....

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The Way Back: A Walk Along the Creek

John Matthias Kuehne was a polymath. A professor at UT, he pioneered work on electromagnetism, eventually chairing the physics department. He was tasked with scouting the location for the McDonald Observatory. He was a singer and actor who occasionally got top billing in Austin Little Theater plays. A budding horticulturist, he grafted trees in his garden. But perhaps his most lasting contribution to society was his other hobby: photography.
Kuehne took the above photograph in the 1930s of a man and a woman walking along Shoal Creek. While it’s in black and white, he experimented widely with color, and is believed to have taken the first color photographs of campus. Upon his death in 1960, his family donated his prolific set of glass-plate negatives to the Texas History Center, and a few months later, his work was immortalized in a photography retrospective in this very magazine. The accompanying text notes a familiar refrain Kuehne used when explaining how he maintained suc ....

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