Texas History

People came from the Appalachian region to Texas after the Civil War. They made their money cutting down cedar trees — Ashe junipers — and selling the wood.

When the state held a convention in 1861 to vote on seceding from the Union, delegates were not all on board.

The case of Senator E.L. Alford, who was expelled from his seat in 1870, provides lessons for today.

“If that’s a stump, it’s the weirdest stump I’ve ever seen.”

He was a songwriter, a singer and an actor, known to many Texans for his part in the “outlaw country” movement of the ’70s and ’80s.

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.

Sixty years later, people of all ages visit the spot in downtown Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot.

A new book tracks both the racist policies that affected recovery and how the city’s West Side showed its resilience.

HB 2497 would create a public history program using Texas’ founding in 1836 as the focal point for its story of a state of rugged individualists.

Historical and legal precedents make it clear that Texas could not leave the Union — at least not legally.