Railways have long defined these East Texas towns, and the Texas State Railroad aims to keep that history on the books.

Railways have long defined these East Texas towns, and the Texas State Railroad aims to keep that history on the books.

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The sounds of the Taiwanese Hokkien language don’t resemble Mandarin Chinese, which drifts from the throat in soft wisps. Nor ...

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New collections of fiction and nonfiction build on Dagoberto Gilb’s long career as chronicler of the working-class Southwest.

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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Deceleration, coproduced with Truthout, and is republished here with permission. “The hostility has always been there,” Paul told me.

In 1926, the Galveston League of Women Voters wrote to their U.S. senator to express concern over the “dreadful conditions which exist in regard to the detention of deportees in this part of the ...