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

If you’re planning a trip to Texas, you won’t want to miss the state’s many historic landmarks. From the Alamo, the site of a ...

On Jan. 20, 1912, country artist Wayland Seals was born in Tennessee. When Wayland was seven, his family moved to Eastland ...

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

Once left to decay for decades, the Barfield Hotel now stands as both a symbol of Amarillo’s downtown renaissance and the city’s rich historical roots — officially recognized this week with a Texas ...

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

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 ...

A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, ...

The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is moving forward with discussions of changes to how public schools teach social studies. In September, the board adopted a plan that ...