Coronado, Quivira, and the Seven Cities of Cibola
On October 20, 1541, the Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado wrote in a letter to...
Lorenzo de Zavala – Vice President of the Texas Republic
Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sáenz was born October 3, 1788 in Tecoh, Yucatán....
José Antonio Navarro – Texas Patriot
Neither fortune nor misfortune describe a man. José Navarro had plenty of both, but...
Martin de Leon
Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...
Alonzo Álvarez de Piñeda
The Spanish government had a big problem. Their explorer, Hernando Cortez, had turned into...
Resources for Hispanic Heritage Month
Though it would be impossible to separate Hispanic Heritage from the overall history of...
El Diez y Seis de Septiembre
Why do some Texans celebrate El Diez y Seis de Septiembre (September 16), and...
Steamship Cayuga Sold
When I originally wrote this post, it began with this line: “On September 4,...
My Annual Tribute to the Ugly-but-Useful Bois d’Arc Tree
I think that I shall never see A thing so scraggly as the bois...
Discover Texas is Different
There’s a reason I named our state history program “Discover Texas”! The key word...