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SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas (KTRE) - A ceremony was held Sunday afternoon by members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Ezekiel Cullen Chapter, to honor and remember Texas History. People gathered at ...

More than 10,000 artifacts have been uncovered by archaeologists in an abandoned town considered to be the "Birthplace of Texas". This town was discovered buried near the banks of the Brazos River in ...

Mirabeau B. Lamar was a man of talent and imagination but also one with a complicated legacy. He was the third president of the Republic of Texas, just a few years after arriving in Texas from Georgia ...

The 'peanut punch' took over the NFL. Wait until you hear about its inventor. IMF urges China to address economic imbalances as trade surplus hits $1 trillion ...

In the 1990s, an armed group pushed for Texas to break from the unio. Zoe Kurland from Marfa Public Radio covers the story in 'A Whole Other Country.' The phrase - Texas, it's like a whole other ...

In 1843, Sam Houston toiled away at a desk in a sixteen-by-sixteen-foot log cabin not far from the muddy banks of the Brazos River. From that makeshift office in Washington-on-the-Brazos, about ...

The story of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas begins on the afternoon of Nov. 6, 1891. A group of about 20 women congregated under a common goal to perpetuate the memory of those who lived in ...

WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS — Almost 200 years ago, a Texas settlement called Washington counted fewer than 200 residents on a bluff above the wide Brazos River. The town rose just downstream of the ...