The phrase - Texas, it's like a whole other country - used to be the Lone Star state's tourism slogan. And back in the 1800s, it was its own country. It was a nation called the Republic of Texas. That ...

The Lone Star State declared its independence from Mexico weeks before the final battle of the Texas Revolution. Here's why March 2, 1836 was a crucial day in Texas history.

Elections in Texas have tended to be animated affairs, despite the fact that Texas has a habit of being a one-party state; from the end of Reconstruction until the late 1970s, Democrats wholly ...

BELTON — At this time of year 190 years ago, the battle of the Alamo was going on, Rob Holt, president of Sons of the Republic of Texas George W. Tyler Chapter No. 3, said Saturday afternoon during a ...

There’s a certain mystique about Texas, perhaps because of its storied history of men and women fighting for rights and freedom — some dying so others might live free — and its origins as an ...