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 photography exhibit about the lives of a Deep East Texas freedom colony is on display at a Nacogdoches church for Black ...

BANDERA — The mystery starts at the edge of town. A green sign reads: "Bandera City Limit, Pop. 957." Really? Fewer than 1,000 people live in this bustling cowboy town on the banks of the Medina River ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Texas’s economy relied on agriculture, cattle ranching and the lumber industry. Southeast Texas had another resource - oil - but the amount of underground ...

I read every word of their life stories. I even read some of the endnotes, those breadcrumbs that nonfiction authors scatter near the end of their books. All told, Don Carleton's magnum opus, "The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The State Board of Education voted to significantly increase instruction in Texas history. Soon, students will study Texas and the people and events that define it in most grade levels before high ...

This week, we feature a historical marker that is, well, misplaced. Canton still sits on the wrong site due to a survey mistake in the 1850s.