Every Texan should try to visit old missions during their travels across the state, beyond the perennial field trip to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Texas state flag flies in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the ...

May 11 marks a solemn double milestone in Texas weather history: the state’s deadliest tornado and the strongest. Although they struck 17 years apart, both storms hit on May 11 and left lasting marks ...

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, ...

Historian Ken Bridges explores the impact Lorenzo de Zavala had on the new nation of Mexico and the future of Texas.

David Courtney, a.k.a. the Texanist, is a senior writer. • Yo Soy Esteban, the story of the enslaved North African man who accompanied the Cabeza de Vaca expedition across the future Lone Star State ...

A volunteer at Washington-on-the-Brazos prepares for the 190th anniversary of Texas’ independence. Ben Baumgartner held in his hands a strip of raw cow leather, white with black spots, still with its ...

Belton ISD students earned campus firsts, top state honors, and trips to the National History Day national contest.