U.S. history has always been a fascinating subject for me. While some classmates in my junior high and high school yawned ...

In 1835, settlers and Tejanos in Mexican ... where Sam Houston’s surprise attack captured Santa Anna and secured Texas’s independence. The revolution reshaped North America, setting the ...

Period Dinner and Live Auction: On April 25, attendees will enjoy a historic 1835 Period Dinner to experience the flavors and atmosphere of the time leading up to the Texas Revolution. The evening ...

Time to take down my National Hug a Newsperson Day (April 4, it didn’t work), just like my flag for National Peanut Butter ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

Every time I read another account of the Texas Revolution — and especially the ... white people seemed at all likely in 1830 or 1835 or even right up to the moment that it actually happened.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has displayed the “Come and Take It” flag outside his office — largely in support of ...

When U.S. Rep. Al Green entered the room in the AFL-CIO building in downtown Austin, it erupted in applause with those in attendance rising in standing ovation. Raising his cane like a trophy, the ...

In 1835-36, Texas rose in revolt against Mexico ... the event that started it all, the 1810 revolution, has largely been viewed as a footnote. As a historian, it became clear to me that there ...

After the outbreak of the Texas Revolution, General Sam Houston made his headquarters at the town of Washington in December 1835. Today, Washington-on-the-Brazos is fondly known as "the birthplace of ...

was in Texas in 1835 as a volunteer at the beginning of the Texas Revolution. His name was proposed as the surgeon general of the Republic of Texas Army. Because he had a large family in ...