The only flag to fly over both an independent country and a state, the iconic Lone Star Flag of Texas was adopted on January 25, 1839.
Like so much of the American West, the historic Sherman engine emerged from relative mystery and died unremarked.
The Driskill Hotel has changed hands numerous times in its nearly century and a half in operation.
Skirmishes between Mexico and the newborn nation continued until Texas was annexed into the United States.
The compromise set Texas' modern-day border and ceded its western and northernmost territory to the U.S. in exchange for $10 million.
President Biden used part of his Constitution Day proclamation to criticize “attempts to suppress and subvert the right to vote.”
Nearly 20 percent of Galveston's population at the turn of the century perished in the hurricane that ripped through the bay city.
Some seeds of discord that blossomed into the Texas Revolution were planted at Nacogdoches in 1832.
On July 4, 1845, a convention of delegates met in Austin to begin drafting a constitution for Texas to join the United States.
Texas became the first state to celebrate the holiday after being one of the last states to officially hear the Emancipation Proclamation.
The men who escaped the Goliad massacre 185 years ago today pointed to one flesh and blood savior: "The Angel of Goliad."
On this day in 1901, the future of Texas changed dramatically as, like a fountain of fortune, thousands of barrels of oil burst from the earth toward the sky.
