Texas

Signed after the Texan victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, the Treaty of Velasco officially ended hostilities between Texas and Mexico. It required Mexican forces to immediately cease fighting and withdraw south of the Rio Grande, while guaranteeing that General Santa Anna would not take up arms…

The Annexation of Texas was the process by which the Republic of Texas joined the United States. Although Texas had voted for annexation after gaining independence from Mexico in 1836, the U.S. delayed due to concerns about upsetting the balance between free and slave states. Despite this obstacle…

The Texas Revolution (October 1835-April 1836) was a conflict between American settlers in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas and the Mexican government. It led to Texas's independence. Tensions escalated due to Mexico's centralized rule, restrictions on American immigration, and its…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Both grimness and beauty touch this haunting fragment of America’s past</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The story of the first great Texas oil well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by participants</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Spare, frail, and plagued by old wounds, Ranald Mackenzie was still “the finest Indian-fighting cavalryman of them all”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">None of its defenders survived, so that legends obscure their fate. But the facts do no dishonor to these beleaguered men, sworn to fight on until the end “at the peril of our lives, liberties and fortunes”</span></p>

<p>George Catlin painted a moving portrait of friend Joseph Chadwick just before his friend's untimely death in the Texas Revolution</p>

<p>These hardy Texas beasts with “too much legs, horns, and speed” had long since been replaced by stodgier breeds. Now they were facing extinction… </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Last Link with the Living Frontier</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The former First Lady looks back on the years with Lyndon and discusses her life today</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Texas Pioneer’s Unusual Gift to His City</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Lone Star state as it once was, proud, isolated, independent, the undiluted essence of America forever inventing itself out of the hardscrabble reality of the frontier</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 150th anniversary of Texan independence, we trace the fierce negotiations that brought the republic into the union.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For more than 200 years, Americans have tried to change the weather by starting fires, setting off explosions, cutting trees, even planning to divert the Gulf Stream. The question now is not how to do it, but whether to do it at all.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> During the Depression, itinerant photographers hawked their services from town to town. All we know about this one is that he passed through Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1934. And that he was very good indeed.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A routine chore for JFK’s official photographer became the most important assignment of his career. Much of his moving pictorial record appears here for the first time.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>

<p>If you want to visit the relic itself, you must go to San Antonio. But, to get the feel of what it was like for Crockett and Travis and the rest, you should drive west into the Texas prairie.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Seen in its proper historical context, amid the height of the Cold War, the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination looks much more impressive and its shortcomings much more understandable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What you <span class="typestyle"> don’t</span> remember about the day JFK was shot </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> A LIFETIME AGO, A QUIET STRANGER</lead_in> passed through the author’s hometown and came away with a record of both personal and national importance.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A once-sleepy Southwestern city that has exploded into a metropolis, Austin fights to retain the best of its past.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THREE CENTS A BARREL</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What happened when an anti-Vietnam War activist met his new client - Lyndon Johnson</span></p>

<p>He was a lieutenant in the Army of the United States: he saw no reason to sit in the back of the bus</p>

<p>Its peculiarly local exuberance is nourished by rare traditions and an untamed individualism.</p>

<p>Their trails pioneered new frontiers and colored the social, political and economic pattern of a nation.</p>

<p>A magnificent historical center portrays the heroic tale of the Lone Star State.</p>

<p>Cowhands careless with branding irons invited a fatal attack of lead poisoning or the nether end of a rope.</p>

<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-619cd7a5-d1e7-3410-8328-514fc270be4e" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;">President James K. Polk expanded U.S. territory by a third by war-making and shrewd negotiating.</p>

<p>The untrained soldiers who fought at the Alamo believed freedom and the struggle for a better life were worth dying for.</p>

<p>As General Granger read the announcement in the summer of 1865 that slavery had ended, the celebration began. The date would go down in history — June 19th, soon shortened to Juneteenth.</p>

<p>In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California. </p>