The story of how the United States took California and Texas from Mexico is a complex tale of war, politics, and expansionism ...

Order Number Three is the document Union General Gordon Granger brought to Galveston on June 19, 1865, which became known as ...

As drought intensifies across South Texas, Lake Corpus Christi has dropped to critically low levels, uncovering decades-old structures once submerged beneath its waters. Bridges, boathouses, roads, ...

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved ...