Join us on site at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) in Austin on Saturday, Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a user-friendly workshop on tracing your family lineage back to the ...

Why had no author written a traditional a rigorous military history of the Texas Revolution? Stephen Hardin: Students of Texas history and 19th-century warfare had failed to grasp the lessons the ...

The shot heard around the world, well, at least in Texas, was fired in Gonzales, a 7,000-person town about 70 miles southeast of Austin. It was here that the now-famous phrase “Come and Take It” was ...

A brand new way to experience the history of the Lone Star State has debuted at the Gonzales Memorial Museum, located about an hour's drive from San Antonio: Texas Legacy in Lights bills itself as the ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On October 2, 1835, the first shots of the Texas Revolution rang out. The tensions between Texas and Mexico came to a head when Mexican soldiers attempted to steal a small cannon ...

If you’re planning a trip to Texas, you won’t want to miss the state’s many historic landmarks. From the Alamo, the site of a ...

Benjamin Heber Johnson, a history professor at Loyola University Chicago, has produced a thoroughly compelling and up-to-date addition to the state's nonfiction library, "Texas: An American History" ...