Texas Independence Day is on Saturday, March 2. Did you know Texas was its own country at one time? Yep, from 1836 until statehood was granted in 1845, Texas was known as the Republic of Texas. Do you ...

I could not agree more. The future of Texas history depends on it. Gary Pinkerton is a resident of Kingwood, the author of ...

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Studio 512 interns Manthurs Oseni and Gracie Watt challenged Rosie and Steph to a bevy of fun Texas facts in honor of Texas Independence Day, which is March 2nd. What’s the third most common language ...

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, ...

You don't need a Texas home library. A few relatively inexpensive books — plus some websites — can ensure that your Texas history remains factual. Let's set aside historical fiction for now. What ...

The Texas flag waved in the evening sun at the start of rodeo action at the 2013 North Texas Fair and Rodeo in Denton.(File Photo / Denton Record-Chronicle) Happy Friday, Curious Texans! Texas ...

A Texas state flag flies in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true. If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 10th-highest gross domestic product in the world. Some of ...

More than 65,000 people have signed an electronic petition to the White House asking President Barack Obama to allow Texas to "withdraw from the United States of America." "Given that the state of ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true. If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 12th-highest GDP in the world. Some of that growth is ...

There are more facts in C. Herndon Williams’ “True Tales of the Texas Frontier” than there are rings on shells of a dozen armadillos. Williams takes the reader on an epic 42-thousand-year journey of ...