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Austin-Boston Connection

Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989
By Anthony Champagne, Douglas B. Harris, James W. Riddlesperger Jr. and Garrison Nelson
For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the ...

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Lovin' That Lone Star Flag

By E. Joe Deering
Afterword by Ruth Rendon
Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and E. Joe Deering has the pictures to prove it.

In Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag, photographer Deering has collected more than a hundred of his favorite images, showing state-flag-adorned pickup trucks, belt buckles, hang gliders, rooftops,

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