More than 10,000 artifacts have been uncovered by archaeologists in an abandoned town considered to be the "Birthplace of Texas". This town was discovered buried near the banks of the Brazos River in ...

Mirabeau B. Lamar was a man of talent and imagination but also one with a complicated legacy. He was the third president of the Republic of Texas, just a few years after arriving in Texas from Georgia ...

The story of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas begins on the afternoon of Nov. 6, 1891. A group of about 20 women congregated under a common goal to perpetuate the memory of those who lived in ...

The 'peanut punch' took over the NFL. Wait until you hear about its inventor. IMF urges China to address economic imbalances as trade surplus hits $1 trillion ...

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" ...