History

The first recorded festivity in honor of the New Year was a long, long time ago. We're talking 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon.

Getting to see video of the past is pretty cool, despite how grainy and low quality it is. The City of Tyler YouTube channel has video of the building of the brick streets in downtown.

On August 28, 1844, Photographer F.N. Robinson captured a photo of a tornado near Howard, South Dakota. This photo was for a very long time believed to be the first-ever of a tornado. But it turns out that may not be the case.

In conjunction with the expo, there will also be the "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake Airshow" on Saturday night, July 6 at twilight.

The June 8 "edition" features the 'Texas Ice Cream Festival." Talk about an ideal way to kick-off the summer. Yes, please!

Whether you wander down on a whim, make a plan to meet a friend, or want to hang with the entire family, 'Hit the Bricks' has something almost anyone could dig.

Small towns in Texas have their fair share of strange histories, and this tale of a grave in the middle of the road is one of family and determination.

The Texas State Board of Education recently voted to drop several key figures from history curriculum. Learn what changed and what stays the same.

We're so used to hearing town names like Marfa and Waxahachie in Texas that they don't even sound weird anymore. Those are definitely real. What about Noodle and Sponge? Real Texas towns, or fake?

Over 100 years ago, children in Tyler wrote to the editor and some would get to see their letter to Santa.

The American Pickers team of Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz will be in the Lone Star State in December and January.

These days we might look off to the side of I-20 and see cows and horses, but Texas wildlife managers say dinosaurs used to roam those same pastures.