
This Week In Texas History: U-boats on the prowl in the Gulf
By Bartee Haile Buried in the back pages of a Houston newspaper in July 1942…
By Bartee Haile Buried in the back pages of a Houston newspaper in July 1942…
Dazed, depressed and at the end of his rope, Samuel W. Jordan wandered the streets…
By Bartee Haile Freddie Wolcott burned up the track in the qualifying heats of the…
By Bartee Haile President Franklin Delano Roosevelt mixed politics and pleasure on a reelection campaign…
By Bartee Haile Spanish authorities banished Father Juan Manuel Zambrano from provincial Texas on May…
By Bartee Haile The surprising thing about the April 7, 1902 death of Barney Riggs…
By Bartee Halie On March 30, 1870, Pres. Ulysses S. Grant signed the act that…
By Bartee Haile On March 24, 1775, Gen. Hugo Oconor, an Irish mercenary on the…
By Bartee Halie While on patrol off the Mexican coast on March 20, 1836, the…
By Bartee Haile The United States Supreme Court ruled on Mar. 15, 1896 that Greer…