Posts by Month: November, 2009

• Monday the 30th

• The Pueblo Indians of Texas

  
  
   The Pueblo Indians refer to groups of Indians of the Southwest. They mostly lived in Arizona, New Me...

• Sunday the 29th

• Texas Reconstruction

  
  
   With the surrender of Robert E. Lee in 1865, the South began a post-Civil War era. Foremost, they n...

• Saturday the 28th

• Mexican War of Independence

  
  
   The Mexican War of Independence was a conflict that spanned 11 years, and it involved the Spanish co...

• Friday the 27th

• El Paso and the Drug Trade

  
  
   United States and Mexico have formed an alliance to try to control the border between the two counti...

• Thursday the 26th

• About the Lipan Apache

  
  
   The first records of Lipan Apache Indians are the mid-1500s, around the time of explorations by Coro...

• Wednesday the 25th

• The History of Texas Oil

  
  
   In the late 1800s, the biggest industries in Texas were the production of cotton and cattle ranching...

• Tuesday the 24th

• Lorenzo de Zavala

  
  
   Born in 1788, Lorenzo de Zavala was a 19th century Mexican politician and colonizer. Lorenzo’s birth...

• Monday the 23rd

• Roger Staubach

  
  
   On February 5, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the greatest NFL football players was born - Roger ...

• Sunday the 22nd

• Karl Rove

  
  
   Political kingmaker Karl Rove was born on December 25, 1950 in Denver. He did not hold a degree from...

• Saturday the 21st

• Texas Screenwriter Gene Roddenberry

  
  
   On August 19, 1921 Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was born. He was the son of Edward Roddenberry and Car...

• Friday the 20th

• About Sam Rayburn

  
  
   Tennessee born Sam T. Rayburn was five in 1887, when his family moved to a Texas cotton farm. When ...

• Thursday the 19th

• Robert Rauschenberg

  
  
   Some people may not know the name Milton Ernst Rauschenberg because he was known as Robert Rauschenb...

• Wednesday the 18th

• Katherine Anne Porter

  
  
   On May 15, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas Callie Russell Porter, later known as Katherine Ann Porter, w...

• Tuesday the 17th

• Quanah Parker - The last Comanche Chief

  
  
   When we gaze into the history of Quanah Parker, a look at his mother and father must be brought into...

• Monday the 16th

• Chester W. Nimitz

  
  
   Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, February 24, 1885, his first desire was to enter West Point. Since th...

• Sunday the 15th

• Ann Miller

  
  
   A tap dancing star to be was born on April 12, 1919, in Houston, Texas by the name of Lucille Ann Co...

• Saturday the 14th

• High School Football in Texas

  
  
   It has been well documented that the greater population of Texas is obsessed with high school footba...

• Friday the 13th

• Don Meredith

  
  
   Don Meredith was born on April 10, 1938 in Mount Vernon, Texas. His parents were Jeff and Hazel Mer...

• Friday the 6th

• Buddy Holly: A Big Influence on Music

  
  
   Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas on September 7, 1936. His family had always called...

• Thursday the 5th

• Mance Lipscomb

  
  
   Mance Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 in Navasota, Texas. He was named Bowdie Glenn Lipscomb. He l...

• Wednesday the 4th

• When Was Texas Admitted to the Union?

  
  
   Texas was officially admitted into the Union on December 29, 1845. Texas had been one of the states...

• Tuesday the 3rd

• The History of Richard King

  
  
   Richard King was born in 1824, in New York City to a poor Irish family. By the time he was nine he w...

• Monday the 2nd

• Presidents of the United States Hailing From Texas

  
  
   Texas has been proud of its political strengths. Texas has had the honor of having Presidents from t...

• Sunday the 1st

• Molly Ivins

  
  
   Molly Ivins was born on August 30, 1944 in Monterey, California, and was named Mary Tyler Ivins. Whe...