history

The handbill that informed enslaved people in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

After decades away from public viewing, the mysterious rock formation that gave the North Texas city its name could be put on display again.

The nonprofit’s first brick-and-mortar space at the South Side on Lamar building will help the organization store and grow its archives.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.

The Dallas Cultural Trail will take users through the Design District, Deep Ellum and Fair Park, highlighting each neighborhood's culture, art and history.

KERA's Recovering the Stories video series chronicles historic communities of color across Dallas, taking a closer look at how subjects like police brutality and gentrification have disproportionately affected these neighborhoods.

KERA's Recovering the Stories video series chronicles historic communities of color across Dallas, taking a closer look at how subjects like police brutality and gentrification have disproportionately affected these neighborhoods.

'Herstory: Life in North Dallas Freedman Town' explores the life of Katie Johnson Warren in the segregated community of a Dallas freedman town.

Reeves Henry was a formerly enslaved man who became an inventor, mechanic, blacksmith and prominent North Texas businessman around the turn of the 20th century.

The station first began broadcasting on July 11, 1974.

In 1954, 21 families moved into homes in Austin’s Allandale neighborhood. They did so under one condition: They would be the subject of an experiment.

Archivists at the University of Houston have saved decades-worth of episodes of local LGBT radio shows that started in the 1970s. Together they tell the story of a complex, diverse community.