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 ...

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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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- March 2 marks the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence. This event marked Texas' independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. How much do you ...

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 ...

Because everyone should be armed for bar trivia success, I present: A few random Texas facts that might come in handy. These are taken from trivia questions I remember, one New York Times crossword ...

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 ...

On the mild, cloudy day of April 14, 2015, exactly 150 years and five days after Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army at a courthouse in Virginia, an unusual spectacle took ...

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 ...