According to the university's horticultural department website, professor Jerry Parsons and horticulturist Greg Grant, an alumnus of the class of 1984, were tasked with designing a Texas flag ...

Agustín de Iturbide abdicates as Emperor of Mexico and the territory, including Texas, is organized as a republic. The Mexican Congress grants Texans a seven-year exemption from Mexican tariffs.

(The five-point star had emerged as a symbol of enlightenment and defiance against tyranny—and would remain a motif for the flag of the Texas Republic.) A year later at Sonoma, a small band of ...

Bluebonnets also played a part in the lives of early Texans, dating back before the Republic of Texas. During the early to mid-1700s, Jumano Indians in Texas and New Mexico said a woman appeared ...