There are many books depicting the history of the Texas Revolution for Independence from Mexico. None, however, may be as important as “Newell’s History of the Texas Revolution — Come and Take It.” It ...

SAN ANTONIO, TX, UNITED STATES, March 17, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is ...

This week on The Bookmark,James Aalan Bernsen, author of The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811. We’ll be talking about this overlooked first war ...

SAN ANTONIO – Way before the Battle of the Alamo or Battle of San Jacinto, Tejanos were actively trying to gain their independence and become a free republic. By 1778, San Antonio had become the ...

All hail the sons of Ireland! May the Lord bless them and all their descendants for without them we may not have a Texas. That is the premise of Phillip Thomas Tucker’s 2016 historical book “The Alamo ...

On March 2nd, 1836, settlers in Mexican Texas adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, creating the Republic of Texas. They just had to win the war they had been fighting to make the declaration ...

On April 21, 2014, Texans celebrated the 178th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, which secured independence from Mexico. Such dramatic events that played out within a relatively short period ...

Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. Texas wasn’t ...

When Texas became a Republic in 1836 after the Texas Revolution, it did not end the armed struggles within its borders. Nacogdoches became a focal point of much of the chaos, a condition of the ...