History

The museum on the UT campus underwent renovations over the past year and will now be known as the Texas Science and Natural History Museum.

Bethany Cemetery was founded in the late 1800s when the segregated section of the nearby city-run Oakwood Cemetery no longer offered burial space for Black residents. Today, community members help preserve its legacy.

As archeologists uncover more graves, a new person is added to the team — one who specializes in studying human remains. After a few months, she thinks she knows who these people might be.

After years of planning, contractors finally break ground on the site of a new school in Sugar Land. But the very next day, someone shows up with a warning: Be on the lookout for bodies.

DAWA is hosting a SXSW event called Vision:8291 to elevate and direct resources to Black, Indigenous and people of color in Austin.

Williamson County was founded in 1848 and named for Robert M. Williamson (aka "Three-Legged Willie”), a pioneer leader and veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto.

To answer that question, we need to go back to World War II and the era of federal rent control.

The University of Texas at Austin has more than 170 million objects and specimens in its collections. KUT listener Matthew Seaton asked our ATXplained project to peruse them.

Former students at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, who were once banned from speaking Spanish, have worked for years to preserve the school's history.

Students had been pushing for the State Board of Education to adopt a new, more inclusive social studies curriculum this year. Instead, the board delayed their scheduled update until at least 2025.