Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday isn't the only holiday this week for state employees in Texas. They can also take off Friday for a state holiday that has been a source of controversy: Confederate ...

MARSHALL, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – The state of Missouri never seceded from the Union of States during the Civil War. Most Missouri soldiers fought for the Union Army, but tens of thousands of Missouri ...

The Confederate Veterans Home in Austin did not close until 1954, when Civil War veteran Thomas Riddle died of pneumonia at the age of 107. Courtesy Richard Selcer Today, most people realize it’s ...

Odds are, last Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it. It’s a measure of progress that few Texans celebrate Confederate Heroes Day. But there it is, a stain on the ...

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The debate over monuments usually centers around one question — should they stay or should they go? Now, some leaders of a town in Texas with their own controversial confederate statue believe they've ...

A Texas school district is moving to restore the name of a Confederate general to one of its campuses, reversing a 2020 decision made amid nationwide calls to remove symbols of the Confederacy. The ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, and later U. S. Senator from Texas, had many advantages in his life.