An hour from Houston sit historical markers, marking the significance of the federal holiday. ABC13 goes in-depth all week on Juneteenth and what it means.

HOUSTON — Juneteenth celebrates the historical day of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

In 1846, a group of 120 settlers led by John Meusebach left New Braunfels to establish Fredericksburg, named for Prince ...

The flag of Mexico has become ubiquitous on the streets of America as a protest symbol against Donald Trump and his ...

These tiny portraits keep America's iconic leaders at our fingertips, their contributions to history forever stamped on our ...

Similarly, the Mexican-American War of 1847-1849 was the basis for ... who lived in northern Texas north of the Rio Grande River. At the time the area which was called Texas belonged to Mexico.

As we Texans learned in our seventh grade Texas history classes ... Mexico’s action convinced the U.S. Congress to declare war. In September 1847, the Mexican army accepted defeat and entered ...

González was a United States Marine Corps sergeant from Edinburg, Texas, who joined the military in the late 1960s and was killed in action during the Vietnam War. In this southernmost region of ...