Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat. The fight underscores long-standing friction between the rump ...

Civil War reenactors were invited to campus to wrap up a Civil War unit for Mr. Parsons' 8th grade U.S. History class.

Former slaves bought 200 acres in Victoria County in 1879. Over generations, the land turned into a legacy of wealth and opportunity.

Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly unrelated topics: ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the ...

At the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas, revolutionaries faced Mexican Gen. Santa Anna and his men in a fight that not only ...

"When space was no longer available for Blacks to be buried in Oakwood, then Bethany became a reality," Spears said. "We have people that were enslaved that lived through slavery and emancipation. We ...

There's also controversy over the decision not to explain the root of the civil war in the film or how California and Texas ended up on the same side. Was there ever a version of the script that ...

Determined to acquire the land, he sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke ... who would later lead armies against one another in the Civil War, had their first combat ...