Mirabeau B. Lamar was a man of talent and imagination but also one with a complicated legacy. He was the third president of the Republic of Texas, just a few years after arriving in Texas from Georgia ...
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 ...
SAN ANTONIO - When the state fired the Daughters of the Republic of Texas as caretakers of the Alamo in 2015, the women's group fought — and won — the right to keep a piece of the shrine that they ...
More than 10,000 artifacts have been uncovered by archaeologists in an abandoned town considered to be the "Birthplace of Texas". This town was discovered buried near the banks of the Brazos River in ...
May 13—The Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT), one of the state's oldest heritage organizations, will host its 134th Annual Convention from May 15 to 17 at the Odessa Marriott Hotel and ...
In 1843, Sam Houston toiled away at a desk in a sixteen-by-sixteen-foot log cabin not far from the muddy banks of the Brazos River. From that makeshift office in Washington-on-the-Brazos, about ...