Center for Texas Studies

Many of the great cities of the world, including Rome, London, Lisbon, Chicago, and San Francisco, have endured devastating peacetime fires. Fort Worth joined that tragic company on April 3, 1909, when two boys experimenting with cigarettes on a windy spring day led to a barn catching fire. By the time the conflagration was under... Read more »

Thanks to western books and movies, we all have a good idea of how nineteenth-century cowboys lived and origins of the cattle they drove. Right? Maybe not. Historian and author Wayne Ludwig joins us this month to set us straight about the risks and rewards of life on the trail. We’ll also consider whether the... Read more »

Attention foodies! As we celebrate African American History Month, join us as TCU history professor Rebecca Sharpless will discuss the history of baking in Texas and the American South. Speaking from research conducted for her latest book, she will weave together the story of how three global food traditions--Indigenous American, European, and African--collided with and... Read more »