All Things Historical
All Things Historical is a weekly feature appearing weekly in the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel and the Lufkin Daily News. All Things Historical columns, written by ETHA’s Executive Director, Scott Sosebee, offer East Texans a regular glimpse into their colorful regional heritage.
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“Outlaw Country” (Part 2, July 17, 2023)
How a Group of “Outlaws” Saved Country Music (Part 1, July 10, 2023)
A Texas Independence Day Tradition (July 1, 2023)
The King of Western Swing (Part 3, June 26, 2023)
The King of Western Swing (Part 2, June 19, 2023)
The King of Western Swing (Part 1, June 12, 2023)
“Waitin’ Around to Die:” The Short Tragic Life of Townes Van Zandt (Part 2, June 5, 2023)
“Waitin’ Around to Die:” The Short Tragic Life of Townes Van Zandt (Part 1, May 29, 2023)
A Free Jazz Stylist: Ornette Coleman (May 22, 2023)
The Texas Songbird: Carolyn Hester (May 14, 2023)
Triumph, Tragedy, and Triumph Again: Roy Orbison (Part 2, May 7, 2023)
Triumph, Tragedy, and Triumph Again: Roy Orbison (Part 1, May 1, 2023)
Rube Foster: The Father of Black Baseball (Apr 23, 2023)
Bringing the National Pastime to Texas: The Texas League (Apr 17, 2023)
A Field of Dreams in . . . Alpine? (Apr 10, 2023)
Mr. Cub: Ernie Banks (Apr 3, 2023)
A Baseball “Lifer:” Paul Richards (Mar 29, 2023)
Standing on Principle: German Unionists and the Battle of the Nueces (Mar 20, 2023)
Striking a Blow Against Misogyny—With a Tennis Racket (Mar 13, 2023)
A Cowardly Welcome Home to a Hero (Mar 6, 2023)
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m A Cook: ”The Saga of C.B. (Stubb) Stubblefield (Feb 26, 2023)
A Man of Many Talents: James Pinckney Henderson (Feb 20, 2023)
The “Yellow Rose of Texas:” How A Myth Becomes “Fact” (Feb 13, 2023)
Camels in Texas? (Feb 6, 2023)
Marketing a Texan as the Marlboro Man (Jan 30, 2023)
A Gateway to Texas (Jan 23, 2023)
A Texas World War II Ace: Neel E. Kearby (Jan 15, 2023)
A Mile Long: The Consolidated Vultee Factory in Fort Worth (Jan 8, 2023)
Pass the Black-Eyed Peas! (Jan 1, 2023)
Unusual Christmas Traditions | Part 1 (Dec 18, 2022) Part 2 (Dec 25, 2022)
“We Don’t Do That Anymore?” Some Forgotten Christmas Traditions, Part 2 (Dec 11, 2022)
“We Don’t Do That Anymore?” Some Forgotten Christmas Traditions, Part 1 (Dec 4, 2022)
Larissa College: A Pioneering Institution with a Lyrical Name (Nov 28, 2022)
Forget Massachusetts, Texas Was the Site of the First Thanksgiving (Nov 21, 2022)
Changing the Fate of a City by “Digging:” The Houston Ship Channel (Nov 7, 2022)
Another Texas First: Six Flags Over Texas and the “Theme Park” (Oct 31, 2022)
Leaving Texas to Take a Stand: The Lucy Parsons Story (Oct 24, 2022)
A Statesman Extraordinaire: Edward Burleson (Oct 17, 2022)
Making History Under Extreme Pressure: The Warren McVea Story (Oct 10, 2022)
Sixty Years of the East Texas Historical Association (Oct 4, 2022)
A Caddo Lake Tragedy: The Mittie Stephens Disaster (Sep 26, 2022)
Bette Graham and the Invention of “White-Out” (Sep 19, 2022)
A Group Based Solely on Hate (Sep 12, 2022)
Setting an International Border (Sep 5, 2022)
The Karankawa- An Often-Misunderstood People (Aug 28, 2022)
Meeting the Enemy in Louisiana: The Red River Campaign (Aug 21, 2022)
The Father of African American Baseball: Rube Foster (Aug 14, 2022)
Building an Educated Populace (Aug 7, 2022)
Tejano Defenders of the Alamo (Jul 31, 2022)
The Stadium that Changed Everything: Building the Astrodome (Jul 24, 2022)
The King of Rock and Roll and Texas (Jul 17, 2022)
The National Youth Administration in Texas (Jul 10, 2022)
Do Fence Me In: Barbed Wire and the Texas Cattle Industry (Jul 7, 2022)
Also Moving East: The Coushatta People Come to Texas (Jul 1, 2022)
So, You Call Yourself a Cowboy (Jun 23, 2022)
The Eccentric Billionaire (Jun 17, 2022)
“Game of the Century” (Jun 10, 2022)
Two Entrepreneurs and a Napkin Make History (May 31, 2022)
“Two Governors for the Price of One” (May 24, 2022)
Ranching Beginnings: Carnestolendas and The Santa Petronila Ranches (May 16, 2022)
Spending the Night in a “Cowtown” Legend: The Hotel Texas (May 8, 2022)
The King of Ragtime (May 3, 2022)
— Columns Prior to May 2022 (more to come) —