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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
"The Lost War for Texas" tells story of conflict 25 years before the Alamo, when Anglos and Tejanos stood together against the Spanish Empire AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new book by ...