The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the ...

Waco High School students have established a local chapter of Students Demand Action (SDA), a national movement dedicated to ending gun violence through advocacy and education.

Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, ...

President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the ...

"How does he know what's going on? He was there for two weeks and he's an expert in USAID? Give me a break," said former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking access to dozens of migrants flown to a U.S. naval ...

When the Civil War ended and with it the last vestiges of slavery in the United States, the newly freed enslaved, termed ...

The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...