Out on the Austin speaking circuit, I often rely on stock speeches. One audience favorite: "20,000 years of Austin history in 20 minutes." The title, at least, never fails to generate a laugh. And ...

A look back at Austin’s deadliest tornado, the family it killed and the mystery uncovered in a southwest Austin graveyard.

AUSTIN, Texas — The history of Hispanic Latinos in Central Texas was carved in the soil of the farmlands outside Austin at the beginning of the 20th century. Most worked as farmhands, many taking the ...

An Austin institution preserving old library materials has officially moved into its new space. The Austin History Center, ...

On Jan. 9, 1913, radio personality and musician Lavada Durst, also known as “Dr. Hepcat,” was born in Austin.

Jutting off of Interstate 35 in East Austin is 11th Street, a corridor that was once the heartbeat of the city's Black community. In the years since Austin segregated the city's Black population to ...