These are the primary online resources I've utilized in researching my historical posts. Note that the
Ghosts of DFW Music History series makes use of various other online and human sources in addition to these, including personal interviews, social media pages, and articles from other publications. But for my other posts, these are the most [fruitful/producing results] sources I have regularly consulted:
For more recent history, provided you're willing to wade through potentially hundreds of mostly tangentially related results:
For the Dallas Public Library-based archives, you'll need an account based on your Dallas Library card. Information on how to obtain this access can be found
HERE. As far as printed materials go, the following are also good resources:
- The Images of America series of books published by Arcadia Publishing
- Dallas: The Deciding Years - A Historical Portrait by A.C. Greene, published 1973 by The Encino Press
- Dallas Yesterday by Sam Acheson, edited by Lee Milazzo, published 1977 by Southern Methodist University Press
- Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925 by William L. McDonald, published 1979 by The Dallas Historical Society
- This Used to Be Dallas by Harry Hall, published 2020 by Reedy Press
And if social media is your thing (it isn't for me, but I do sometimes utilize it as a necessary evil for my research), here are some active groups on Facebook that are worth a look:
