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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States. An ambitious and cunning man whose political tricks earned him the nickname...

Portrait of Juan Seguín, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Jefferson Wright, 1838. The only known portrait of Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (1806-1890), this painting depicts the Tejano (Mexican Texan) leader who...

Juneteenth is an annual event celebrating the end of chattel slavery in the United States in commemorating the issuance of General Order No. 3 (which included the line "all slaves are free") in Galveston, Texas on 19 June...

Texas hero and patriot Sam Houston was serving as governor of the state on the eve of the Civil War. Adamantly opposed to secession, he refused to take the oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America and was subsequently...

Sarcophagus in San Fernando Cathedral, photograph by Svs220, San Antonio, Texas, August 2008. The remains of the defenders at the Battle of the Alamo are said to be held within; among them being William Barret...

James W. Fannin, painting by unknown artist, included in Exploring the Alamo Legends by Wallace O. Chariton, p. 134, c. 1820s. A planter and American military officer during the Texas Revolution, Fannin served with the Texian...

Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional...

Nicholas Bartlett Pearce (better known as N. Bart Pearce, 1828 to 1894) was a brigadier general in the Arkansas Militia who allied his forces with those of Confederate...

The Seven Cities of Cibola are the mythical lands of gold that the Spanish of the 16th century believed existed somewhere in the southwest of North America, comparable to the better-known mythical city of...

David Ingram was an Elizabethan explorer who famously walked over 3500 miles from Veracruz to New Brunswick in 1568-9. In 1567, Ingram had sailed down the Thames on the flagship Queen Elizabeth I of England...