Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has announced that the 2026 Save Texas History Essay Contest is now open for fourth ...

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.C., has announced the opening of the 2026 Save Texas History Essay Contest, which ...

Few towns are as steeped in history as Goliad, as it's the third-oldest municipality in Texas. Just under a two-hour drive ...

Coryell, born in Ohio in the late 1700s, came to Texas in the early days of the settlement period and became one of the ...

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, civil rights, Indigenous people and the Alamo.

On the mild, cloudy day of April 14, 2015, exactly 150 years and five days after Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army at a courthouse in Virginia, an unusual spectacle took ...

They called it the “American Wake”—a time of mourning the loss of one’s native land. Irish immigrants fled famine and persecution in hopes of a new life of prosperity and freedom—and it was this hope ...

In his latest Texas History column, Ken Bridges explores the ways flags have been used to convey messages, signal triumph and ...

Today's Caprock Chronicles is an updated article by Paul Carlson and David Murrah celebrating a decade of documenting West ...

Texans are tough. We’ll get through this. One way to stop an epidemic is to look to history. My recent story on the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 showed that leaders knew about the value of social ...