history

We did the Trade-A-Thon thing again on Saturday.

If you want to learn more about the history of Downtown Amarillo, then this Saturday is a perfect opportunity to learn.  Center City is teaming up with the Amarillo Museum of Art and the Amarillo Cultural District to offer free trolley tours of historic Center City.

History’s Vikings famously ditches the classic helmet imagery, but did you know the concept of filthy, horned raiders was historically inaccurate anyway? Or that the Travis Fimmel series pays homage to classic Norse myth in its titles? Sharpen your axes and fill your flagons, and let the 24th episode of ‘You Think You Know TV?’ take you along with Ragnar Lothbrok for a raiding party on History’s Vikings!

Six bodies found at the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma have now been identified and have brought a close to a missing persons case over 40 and 50 years in the making.

An ever sensitive topic though it remains, slavery films in Hollywood have no doubt risen  the last few years in public profile, from '12 Years a Slave' to 'Django Unchained,' and now the trend has reached TV. History will reboot the iconic 'Roots' miniseries as an all-new drama, but who from the original production will have any involvement?

A good boy’s name may very well be a good girl’s name.

It's every child's dream to stumble upon a hidden treasure in their very own home. Think how many hours of youth are spent knocking on hollow walls, digging in the backyard and exploring crawl spaces in the hopes of finding something, anything, of value.

A new billboard for JCPenney is raising quite a fuhrer.

There was a time when cannibalism was alive and well in America, as researchers recently discovered the remains of Jamestown settlers that indicate colonists may have had to resort to such despicable tactics in order to survive the “Starving Time...

A bill has been scheduled for a hearing that would require college students in Texas to take more history.