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Did You Know…Popeye the Sailor was a Texan?

Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar may have been born in Illinois, but Popeye the Sailor,...

On 23 January 1691, the Count of Galvez (as in Galveston) appointed Domingo Terán de...

Did you know that Austin was not always the capital of Texas? Several cities can...

On January 17, 1821 the government of New Spain finally granted Moses Austin’s request...

Many Texans experienced snowfall and freezing temperatures during December and have weathered another round...

If you didn’t really plan to spend a whole year on Texas History, Discover...

On New Year’s Eve 1862, the city of Galveston, Texas, had been seized and...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Pearl Harbor Day, the day Japan launched an unprovoked...

If you live in the Texas hill country (or if you can manage to...

Happy Thanksgiving! …but… Did you know the very FIRST Thanksgiving on American soil was...