Karl Chiao, executive director of Dallas Historical Society poses for a portrait by a 14 by 24 feet canvas containing more than 2,000 hand-crafted miniature figures representing the battle of ...

George Bannerman Dealey thought any city worth its salt needed a historical society. It was 1922, and the founder and longtime publisher of the Dallas Morning News noticed many of Dallas ...

The Dallas Historical Society has the only known copy of General Order No. 3, which informed Texans two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation that slaves had been freed. One hundred ...

Published by the Dallas Historical Society in 1978, it went out of print shortly thereafter -- around '80 or '81, says DHS executive director Jack Bunning. I'd called Bunning a few weeks ago to ...

It’s on display at the Hall of State in Fair Park, in the East Texas room. The Dallas Historical Society has put the document on display temporarily in the past, but Executive Director Karl ...

A great place to learn about Dallas history is the Dallas Historical Society. The Society offers numerous tours year-round from its home base at the Hall of State in Fair Park. Tours include a ...