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John Wayne was under incredible pressure directing, producing and starring in The Alamo, a film released 64 years ago this week, which Duke partly financed out of his own pocket, and had to deal with ...

The Jasper County Historical Museum will host a Sam Houston exhibit from Thursday, November 5th through Thursday, December ...

John Wayne's The Alamo was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time and the Hollywood icon was under incredible ...

As the leaves shift from green to shades of red and brown, Fall brings more than just hayrides, pumpkin patches, and trick-or-treating. You may not realize it while carving your ...

Explore the founding and early history of Upper Alton Baptist Church, organized by Rev. John Mason Peck in 1830.

Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Author of the award ... Six weeks later, when Sam Houston's victorious rebels swept the field at San Jacinto, they ...

On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the U.S. Marine ...

A 30th anniversary screening of the Houston-shot "Reality Bites," the Texas premiere of Houston ... CIA training to figure out how to start a revolution, came out in the middle of the so-called ...