A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution on Wednesday, the second scheduled execution in the U.S. so far this year.

Austin was carved from the wilderness to be a national, even imperial, capital. Innkeeper Angelina Eberly saved it.

Resolved . . . , That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the State ...

Franklin County is old, by Texas standards. Spanish explorers, the Cherokee people, Sam Houston and Davy Crockett traveled through here. Lineage and family farms in this northeast Texas county predate ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ban on Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek for government-issued devices, becoming the first state to restrict the ...

The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association Vol. 13, No. 3, Jan., 1910 Recognition of the Republic of Texas by ... Recognition of the Republic of Texas by the United States This is the ...

Agustín de Iturbide abdicates as Emperor of Mexico and the territory, including Texas, is organized as a republic. The Mexican Congress grants Texans a seven-year exemption from Mexican tariffs.

The story involves Houston’s proud namesake, growing pains in the fledgling Texas Republic and a “war” that settled it all. Let’s look back. After white settlers took control of parts of ...

The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association Vol. 12, No. 4, Apr., 1909 The Navy of the Republic of Texas: II. T... The Navy of the Republic of Texas: II. The First Navy of Texas This is ...

The last act of Polk's predecessor, John Tyler, had been to annex the Republic of Texas in 1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border of ...