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From educators to textbook advisors, experts say state standards, teaching approaches, textbooks and politics all contribute to the erasure of Asian…

Historian and beloved Big Bend resident Lonn Taylor has died at the age of 79.

At a dozen locations around the city, you’ll find 15 photos showing the day-to-day life of kids who went to the Blackwell School, Marfa’s once segregated school for Mexican-American children.

On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn recounts the infamous conflict between James Judson Kilpatrick, the town of Candelaria and the United States Army. J.J. Kilpatrick, as he liked to be called, came to Candelaria in 1906 from Laurenceville, Alabama to teach school. By 1918, he was embroiled in a violent feud that lasted until 1921.

On this episode of The Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor tells the story of Luther Evans, a man from Sayersville, a rural community in Bastrop County, who…

On this episode of West Texas Talk, we are joined in the studio by Jaclyn Garcia, a Valentine High School student who has been competing in the history…

On a recent trip to San Antonio, Lonn Taylor dropped by the Japanese Garden in Brackenridge Park. Today on the Rambling boy, Lonn tells us the history of…

On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor tells the tale of St. Urho’s Day. St. Urho is a mythical Finnish saint, invented in Minnesota in 1953 so that…

Fences line ranches across the State of Texas. You might not intuit it from a casual drive down the road, but there's actually a pretty complex -- and in…

In this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes us back to the meeting of the Texas Convention in 1836. At this meeting, held for 17 days in an unfinished…