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3 days ago · The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, [5] [6] [7] [8] was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians between February 28 and April 19, 1993. [9] .
6 days ago · Sam Houston: Texas Icon traces the life and career of Houston from his boyhood in Virginia and Tennessee through his retirement and eventual passing in Huntsville, Texas. Panel topics include: Prelude to War; President Again; American Indian Relations; A Nation Divided; Texas Politics
2 days ago · In 1874 and 1875, Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes clashed with the U.S. Army in a series of battles that came to be known as the Red River War.
4 days ago · Stephen Fuller Austin. November 3, 1793–December 27, 1836. Stephen F. Austin wrote, "I have learned patience in the hard School of an Empresario ." That was six years after Austin brought his first settlers to Texas.
4 days ago · Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.
1 day ago · However, at least four states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas —also passed lengthy and detailed explanations of their reasons for secession, all of which laid the blame squarely on the movement to abolish slavery and that movement's influence over the politics of the Northern states.
1 day ago · Texas joined the Union in 1845, and the Federal government and Texas took up the struggle between the Plains Indians and the settlers. The conflicts were particularly vicious and bloody on the Texas frontier in 1856 through 1858, as settlers continued to expand their settlements into Comancheria.
