Like many civilizations throughout history, including the Romans and Spanish, the Republic of Texas chose to reward the ...

It was on March 2, 1836, when historians believe the original and five copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence were ...

Why had no author written a traditional a rigorous military history of the Texas Revolution? Stephen Hardin: Students of Texas history and 19th-century warfare had failed to grasp the lessons the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Lauren Jones The shot heard around the world, well, at least in Texas, was fired in Gonzales, a 7,000-person town about 70 ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On October 2, 1835, the first shots of the Texas Revolution rang out. The tensions between Texas and Mexico came to a head when Mexican soldiers attempted to steal a small cannon ...

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" ...