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

Civil War, the buzzy A24 film that follows a team ... throws in one surprise right off the bat: California and Texas, typically political opposites, are allies in the war. At a special screening ...

I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Civil War teams a blue state, California, and a red state, Texas, in a bid to overthrow the film’s dictatorial president. Since America is so deeply divided ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat. The fight underscores long-standing friction between the rump of what ...

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

AUSTIN, Texas — Download our streaming app to your ... That speaker coup 15 years ago provided the initial spark for the fiery Republican civil war culminating Tuesday with the vote to select ...

May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics would charge that he should have joined the Union Army, but anyone who knew ...

In 2009, 11 Texas House Republicans gathered at a lawmaker ... ago provided the initial spark for the fiery Republican civil war culminating Tuesday with the vote to select a new House speaker ...