Former slaves bought 200 acres in Victoria County in 1879. Over generations, the land turned into a legacy of wealth and opportunity.

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

Civil War, the buzzy A24 film that follows a team ... throws in one surprise right off the bat: California and Texas, typically political opposites, are allies in the war. At a special screening ...

By pairing up California and Texas in an unlikely seceding coalition, Alex Garland indicates that the Civil War didn't start ...

Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly unrelated topics: ...