Though the structure is famous for being the site of the 1836 battle between Texas revolutionary forces and the Mexican army, it played an important role in the events that led up to that ...

The Texas Rangers, an elite state law-enforcement agency that enjoys a legendary image in wider American culture, was formally proposed on this day in history, Oct. 17, 1835. "The Rangers are part ...

Some quilts were made to memorialize events—several in the Collection commemorate ... Goodwin Wilkins's Appliqued Counterpane National Museum of American History 1825 - 1835 Betsy Totten's "Rising Sun ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells the story of the city's first police marshal ...

The Texas Historical Commission will celebrate the reopening of Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site in Anderson on Friday.

Author of the award-winning Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (University ... to separate the myth from the actual events. To do so, however, might be overly ...

He prepared to address a group gathered to unveil a historical marker that announced ... behind him once housed an auction firm that in 1835 “conducted the largest known domestic slave sale ...

Many of the writer’s horror stories, including “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” were based on haunted ...

Before writing this history of the island, the author, Henry Saxelby Melville (1799–1873), a journalist, was imprisoned in 1835 for contempt of court over an article he wrote about an ongoing trial.

The collection also documents the work of specific quilt-makers and commemorates events in American history ... Wilkins's Appliqued Counterpane National Museum of American History 1825 - 1835 Betsy ...