See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Monday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law establishing the 1836 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836 secured Texas' independence and effectively ended the Texas Revolution. (Universal ...

As a member of the 1836 Project Advisory Committee, I’m writing to take issue with an opinion article about our work that Texas Monthly published by Leah LaGrone, an assistant professor at Weber State ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Re-enactors put on a performance during the Texas Independence Day Celebration at Washington-on-the-Brazos. (Loren Elliott/For the ...

The Runaway Scrape, an arduous evacuation of a panicked sea of humanity fleeing eastward during Santa Anna’s 1836 Texas campaign, has been overshadowed by stories of the Alamo and San Jacinto. But ...

A popular joke in the Soviet Union went like this: “The future is certain. Only the past is unpredictable.” The quip poked fun at both the Communist party’s confidence that socialism would soon rule ...

Informed patriotism, as Ronald Reagan once suggested, is what America needs. And that’s what some Texas lawmakers aim to bring to their state after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the 1836 Project into law ...