TSHA Announces 2026 Award and Fellowship Recipients Honoring Excellence in Texas History Research, Education, and ...

Explore the best of rural Texas starting in Giddings, TX. Located on Highways 290 and 77, about an hour’s drive from Austin and 97 miles from Houston in Central Texas, Giddings, TX, is where rural ...

The State Board of Education voted to significantly increase instruction in Texas history. Soon, students will study Texas and the people and events that define it in most grade levels before high ...

A panel of outside advisers want to reorient public school history classes around the country's roots in Judeo-Christian and ...

The U.S. and Texas flags fly over the Texas Capitol during the first day of the 88th Texas Legislative Session in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. When Texas historian Gregg Cantrell took part ...

Fittingly, it rises on one of the most historic hills in Austin. The new Republic of Texas History Center, built by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a lineal group, stands on Robertson Hill ...

Consider sharing a dose of Texas history with them. The Texas Historical Commission — along with local partners — stage quite a few seasonal events at its historic sites. I rustled up a few candidates ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Fredericksburg is giving 12 acres to the state for the project. The property was previously the site of a failed Texas Rangers heritage facility.

Historian Nancy Baker Jones was a child when her father, who was serving in the U.S. Army in Europe, was called home in 1953 to testify at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings on an alleged ...