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In 1857, the company began publishing the Texas Almanac, a reference book focused on Texas, and on October 1, 1885, launched a second newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, based in Dallas, Texas. On June 26, 1922, the company expanded into broadcasting with the sign-on of WFAA-AM (at that time, shared time with WBAP and WRR in Dallas, Texas). [4]
In 1986, KKDA started promoting a weekly series of blues concerts, inviting listeners from across North Texas to “Funky Town Fort Worth.” A nickname was born.
White metropolis: race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas, 1841–2001 (University of Texas Press, 2010). Selcer, Richard F. A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life (University of North Texas Press, 2015). online; Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas (JHU Press, 1998) online.
Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady.In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.
The Church built the Dallas Texas Temple, the first temple in Texas, in the city in 1984. [8] Dallas has a large Jewish community, many of whom reside in eastern and northern Dallas. [9] Temple Emanu-El, one of the largest synagogues in the South and Southwest, was founded in 1873. The community is led by Rabbi David E. Stern. See the History ...
The history of Texas, particularly of the old independent Republic of Texas, is intimately bound up with its present culture. Frontier Texas! is a museum of the American Old West in Abilene. Texas is also home to many historical societies, such as: The Texas Historical Commission, an agency dedicated to historic preservation within the state of ...
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
The unforgiving desert that surrounds Van Horn, a town of less than 2,000 people in Far West Texas, has forged a culture of self reliance and a community where everyone looks out for each other.