Books 1836, the Slaveholder Republic’s Birthday Historian Gerald Horne on the Texas Revolution, its victors, and its victims ...

Texas Independence Day is March 2 which marks the day the Republic of Texas was born. While Texas has been part of the United States for over 175 years, Texas Independence Day is still recognized ...

Under HB 2497, the 1836 Project is essentially just the name of an advisory committee designed to promote the state’s history to Texas residents, largely through pamphlets given to people ...

Gov. Greg Abbott praised the Texas 1836 Project’s goal of “patriotic education,” contending “we must never forget why Texas became so exceptional in the first place.” Texas leaders were ...

In the final years of his tenure as land commissioner, which ran from 2003 to 2015, Patterson put the Alamo under the state’s authority while retaining the Daughters of the Texas Republic as the ...

Last week, a committee appointed by Texas leaders including Gov. Greg Abbott approved a 15-page draft of a document titled the Texas 1836 Project, which is named for the year that Texas declared ...

One controversial aspect of the 1836 Project is its name. Some critics have pointed out that Texas’ independence didn’t apply to all of those living in the state at the time, such as slaves ...

GOP leaders have created the Texas 1836 Project, which is in direct response to the New York Times' highly controversial "1619 Project." ...