Texana

Texas has no shortage of songs written about it. Among the most famous is “San Antonio Rose,” written and performed by James Robert “Bob” Wills. In addition to his singing, he became a music pioneer, helping to develop a genre…
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Visit the state Capitol in Austin, and in the south foyer you’ll see statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. The statues are replicated in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where every state is allowed to…
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Many people know that the battleship USS Texas is permanently moored at the San Jacinto Battleground east of Houston. Yet this wasn’t the first, nor the last, ship to be named in honor of the Lone Star State. Three other…
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When one thinks of an admiral, they likely think of someone who has spent all his life near or on the sea. Chester W. Nimitz took an unlikely journey, coming from the middle of the Texas Hill Country to commanding…
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1. Why was William Travis’s letter so significant? Just what did it say? William Travis, the commander at the Texian garrison defending the Alamo, wrote the letter to call for reinforcements to support the garrison and warned what would happen…
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