Contemporary Texas History

A few front pages from Texas history on July 22. World War II news, elections, the Legislature, and more are covered in these front pages. #Texas

A few Texas front pages from July 21, 1969. #TXhistory #Texas

The July 25, 1957 Lubbock Avalanche Journal carried a story about two court clerks who saw a UFO that looked like a turkey roaster while walking the streets of Lubbock.

Cases of UFO sightings in Houston throughout the years houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

Fredrica Kla Bada Brown was a student from Liberia who graduated from Lawrence in 1917. Following her graduation from Lawrence, she became Dean of Women at Wiley University (now Wiley College) and helped found the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y.W.C.A. in Indianapolis.

One of the biggest days in Texas history today. 105 years ago today women in Texas voted — 2 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. And it is a wild story of how Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped pull it off.

"JUSTICIA PARA SANTOS": 50 years ago today, Santos Rodriguez was killed by a Dallas police officer who played Russian roulette while questioning the 12-year-old boy. WFAA is marking the tragedy with a special, 30-minute program, which airs tonight at 7. wfaa.com/article/news/l…

A Ford f-5 pickup truck with a model of the Liberty Bell in the back. Painted on the truck's bed rail is the motto "Save For YOUR Independence - Buy U.S. Savings Bonds." 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Unknown date, but from WWII period. #txlege

In March 2018 -- 61 years after he first played the Statler Hilton in downtown Dallas -- Tony Bennett returned to reopen the Commerce Street hotel. He was 91 years old. And he was spectacular. Godspeed, Anthony Dominick Benedetto. dallasnews.com/arts-entertain…

⬇️FROM TAMI'S INTERN...⬇️ Local news sure has changed! In a shimmery gold suit, a @KPRC2 reporter warns of the growing #Houston population and the negative effects of this growth. #texas #archives #TAMITurns20 #houston Click to watch the full video ⬇️ texasarchive.org/2022_00048

Texas newspapers of the early 1930s often tracked the flights of aviator Wiley Post, who was born near Grand Saline. (Handbook of Texas: bit.ly/3Ok6nxA) Post was a pioneer in high altitude flight. He was killed with humorist Will Rogers in an Alaska plane crash in…

Today in History: 1st US women's rights convention assembles at Seneca Falls NY, 1848 #otd #tih go.loc.gov/Hluo50PcXjh