Texas is known in some circles as home of the country two-step, a popular style of dance also known as the Texas Polka.

For nearly a century, the all-boys camp in Hunt has taught bravery and endurance to campers like me. Those virtues were in ...

Lone Star State is synonymous with Texas, the vibrant heart of the US. Discover why Texas is known as the Lone Star State and ...

Discover how Texas, once the independent Republic of Texas from 1836-1845, transitioned from a sovereign nation to the 28th U ...

Stephen F. Austin State University’s East Texas Research Center recently received a $3,000 donation from The Sons of the ...

Texas residents chose to scatter their ashes at the Alamo, Washington-on-the-Brazos, San Jacinto Battlefield & Monument, and Fort Mackinac, while other notable monuments across the country included ...

It’s no secret that Texas has often served as a testing ground for right-wing, white supremacist ideology in the U.S. Lesser known, however, is the history of Texas serving as a profound site of ...

Retired professor Stephen L. Hardin has written two standard books of Texas history, one about the revolution, another about the Runaway Scrape ...

Texas is a state that prides itself on its particular spirit in independence. Largely, it stems from the famous Texas Revolution, which liberated the state from the rule of Mexico in the 1800s. Lots ...

Stephen L. Hardin has written the first book focused on the Runaway Scrape, the mass exodus of thousands of Anglo-American Texians, enslaved people and Tejanos during the Texas Revolution. He ...

This week on The Bookmark,James Aalan Bernsen, author of The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811. We’ll be talking about this overlooked first ...

It was on March 2, 1836, when historians believe the original and five copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence were written and signed by 59 men at Washington-on-the-Brazos. If you were ...