From Barbara Jordan to Emma Long, the figures behind Mueller's street names reveal Austin's past.

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These historic Austin Tex-Mex restaurants helped shape the city’s food scene, from longtime favorites to family-run institutions Third in our short From the Archives series on the history of Pease ...

Jutting off of Interstate 35 in East Austin is 11th Street, a corridor that was once the heartbeat of the city's Black community. In the years since Austin segregated the city's Black population to ...

Alright, alright, alright. There might not be any keg-fueled parties going on at Austin's moontowers anytime soon, but the Texas capital turned filming backdrop for Dazed and Confused featured a ...

1839: The city of Austin is established as the capital of the Republic of Texas. 1845: Alexander Joy Cartwright implements the first game of modern baseball at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J. 1869 ...

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An Austin institution preserving old library materials has officially moved into its new space. The Austin History Center, which has been closed since February 2025 in order to move its collection, ...