While maps might have indicated that New Spain included much of what is now Texas, the Spanish, in fact, rarely controlled ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a settlement near Beaumont in southeast Texas known as Gladys City – a collection of small businesses and primitive shacks where ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, ...