Post dateMay 14, 2025 Road to Revolution: The Treaty(s) of Velasco Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto on 21...
Post dateMay 5, 2025 El Cinco de Mayo “The Fifth of May” commemorates Mexico’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla on...
Post dateApril 21, 2025 Road to Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto Houston began with approximately 1200 Texians in his volunteer army, but after the slaughter...
Post dateFebruary 26, 2025 Celebrate Texas History Month with our FREE game! March is Texas History Month, but the tension was had been building since at...
Post dateJanuary 31, 2025 Did You Know…Popeye the Sailor was a Texan? Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar may have been born in Illinois, but Popeye the Sailor,...
Post dateJanuary 3, 2025 Looking for a Spring Semester History Course? If you didn’t really plan to spend a whole year on Texas History, Discover...
Post dateOctober 21, 2024 Rafael Gonzales, Namesake of Gonzales, Texas Gonzales, capital city of the DeWitt Colony, was named in honor of Rafael Gonzales,...
Post dateSeptember 16, 2024 Resources for Hispanic Heritage Month Though it would be impossible to separate Hispanic Heritage from the overall history of...
Post dateSeptember 2, 2024 Family Tree Charts – Another Type of Timeline Wrapping up our discussion of timelines, let me point out that a Family Tree...
Post dateAugust 30, 2024 Why Teach with Timelines? Cause & Effect! I’m doing a short series about the value of timelines. They’re not as “boring”...