Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

In essence, that’s what Juneteenth means to me,” Gordon-Reed said in keynote remarks at a recent two-day conference on slavery in Texas, hosted by the Witte Museum. The author’s work led to ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

Dr. Jessica Johnson, an Ohio State University English professor, delivered a lecture at OSU Lima during Black History Month, ...

said he hopes others can learn about the unique role Texas and Mexico played in the emancipation of slaves, long before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Nathan H. Haller was living in Brazoria not too far from West Columbia when he won a seat in the Texas House of ...

When Mexico encouraged settlers to come to its territory of Texas, many Americans brought slaves with them. In 1829, the Mexican government abolished slavery in Texas to try to lessen American ...

The Rio Grande Valley is full of rich history going back centuries. There is a lot of Black History that is not really known.

Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable. Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves. Slaves in ...

No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. The book, titled “Forget the ...