While promoting her latest book, ‘My Name Is Emilia del Valle,’ the celebrated author discusses independence for women, censorship and surviving a coup.

A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government ...

Among other things, it traces Latin America’s largely unrecognized role in the abolition of the doctrine of conquest and the ...

The Federal Reserve has emerged as the 800-pound gorilla in the legal fight over President Trump’s firings of agency leaders traditionally independent from the White House. The Supreme ...

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of ...

The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas ...

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of ...

Trump is holding a White House meeting with Republican holdouts on his "big beautiful bill." Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Local history was explored at the Villa San Agustín de Laredo Genealogical Society’s recent meeting, as renowned historian Dr. Jerry Thompson spoke about two of South Texas’ most influential ...