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

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

In 1846, at the onset of the Mexican-American War, much of what is today West Texas was embroiled in a huge dispute between the two nations — both sides claimed it as their own. When the U.S. won in ...

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 ...

In its heyday, Jefferson, Texas, was a major port on the Big Cypress Bayou. Steamboats carried travelers and goods from Shreveport and New Orleans. After the water level dropped and the steamboats ...

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 ...

The law has long produced great figures and colorful personalities in Texas History. Among those was frontier jurist John Hemphill. He was the first chief justice of the state supreme court in Texas, ...

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

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