Texas Independence Day is on Saturday, March 2. Did you know Texas was its own country at one time? Yep, from 1836 until statehood was granted in 1845, Texas was known as the Republic of Texas. Do you ...

The Texas flag waved in the evening sun at the start of rodeo action at the 2013 North Texas Fair and Rodeo in Denton.(File Photo / Denton Record-Chronicle) Happy Friday, Curious Texans! Texas ...

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They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true. If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 12th-highest GDP in the world. Some of that growth is ...

You don't need a Texas home library. A few relatively inexpensive books — plus some websites — can ensure that your Texas history remains factual. Let's set aside historical fiction for now. What ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true. If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 10th-highest gross domestic product in the world. Some of ...

If you’re planning a trip to Texas, you won’t want to miss the state’s many historic landmarks. From the Alamo, the site of a ...

Studio 512 interns Manthurs Oseni and Gracie Watt challenged Rosie and Steph to a bevy of fun Texas facts in honor of Texas Independence Day, which is March 2nd. What’s the third most common language ...

There are more facts in C. Herndon Williams’ “True Tales of the Texas Frontier” than there are rings on shells of a dozen armadillos. Williams takes the reader on an epic 42-thousand-year journey of ...

On the mild, cloudy day of April 14, 2015, exactly 150 years and five days after Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army at a courthouse in Virginia, an unusual spectacle took ...

A Texas state flag flies in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) ...