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February 2018
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Features
Feature
A Vision of Harmony
Grant’s Colony, an East Texas freedom colony, offered integration for former slaves
Feature
Thursday Night Lights
Book tells the largely unknown story of segregated African-American high school football programs in Texas
Departments
Letters to the Editor
TCP Kitchen
Peanut Butter + Chocolate: A Love Story
When these flavors join forces, it’s like a match made in heaven
February 2018 Photo Contest
Focus on Texas: Jailhouses
It would be a crime if you didn’t check out our online slideshow
Co-op People
Red Hats Update
Sonora’s Nancy Johnson still busy promoting Little Hats, Big Hearts project in Texas
Texas History
The Rope Walker of Corsicana
Unraveling the mystery of a one-legged tightrope performer
Texas USA
Dark Corner and High Hill
Excerpt from “Texas, My Texas:” country cemeteries, where local history has its final say
Hit the Road
Standing Tall Once Again
Hotel Settles, revived and modernized, casts glow upon downtown Big Spring
Around Texas
Historians will re-enact in Goliad an encampment depicting the 1812 siege of Presidio La Bahia—during which Mexico took the fort from the Spanish—as part of Under the Green Flag, February 23–24.
Find more events all across the state on our Events page.
Photo: Library of Congress
