An essay at the Hall of State in Fair Park tells the debated story of María Andrea Castañon Villanueva, a Tejana survivor of the Battle of the Alamo. Some historians would later discredit Villanueva’s ...

There was a time when Texas women's contribution to the state rated little more than a paragraph in a textbook. That made a lot of people mad, including Ruthe Winegarten, who has spent more than 20 ...

Do your feel your “Tejanidad” – Texasness? It’s all around us – from the mountains in West Texas to the Gulf breeze on the Texas coast, the cattle roaming countless ranches throughout the state and ...

Teresa Palomo Acosta has become a Tejana icon with her writing of “Tejanaland - A Writing Life in Four Acts.” With this brilliantly written study, Acosta has emerged into one of the Lone Star State’s ...

A version of this story ran in the May 2016 issue. The recently published Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art is a collection of work by women who identify as Tejana. Many of the ...

Last night, the Alamo City Rollergirls’ Las Tejanas team took on Dallas troupe Assassination City in a season-ending bout that was important for a few different reasons. First of all, the close of the ...

Esta forma de usar botas tejanas queda perfecta si los jeans son oxford -también conocidos como pantalones "pata elefante"- o de pierna ancha, de manera que el calzado quede bien “escondido” por ...

El 29 de septiembre de 1947 marca un viraje en la historia del jazz: Dizzy Gillespie se presenta en el Carnegie Hall y a su banda se suma el percusionista cubano Chano Pozo (1915-1948). Los golpes ...

As one of the all-time greats in El Paso Community College softball history, Katie Gutierrez knows what she wants to build as the Tejanas head coach. She's happy to take the best players from wherever ...

A person views the “Tejanas at the Battle of the Alamo” exhibit hosted by The Mexican American Museum of Texas at The Hall of State at Fair Park in Dallas, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The exhibit will ...