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The annexation of one small southeastern Oklahoma school district into another was unusual in that it was both voluntary and ...

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Discover how Texas, once the independent Republic of Texas from 1836-1845, transitioned from a sovereign nation to the 28th U ...

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In one of the most delicate moments in the history of Texas, Anson Jones stood at the center. When Sam Houston became president of the Texas Republic a second time in December 1841, he quickly ...

Jones pushed the Texas Congress to support annexation and a state constitutional convention. Congress approved the measures in June.

An extension of Gateway Boulevard from Bagby Avenue to Interstate 35 took another step closer to reality this week as the Waco Plan Commission recommended annexation of the last right-of-way ...

In 1835-36, Texas rose in revolt against Mexico, fighting under West Florida’s lone star flag and voluntarily submitting to U.S. annexation in 1845.

The question of formal and sanctioned western expansion became acute with the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas and its contested territorial claims in December of 1845.

David A. Wilson is the general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. In February, 1865, during a fledgling country’s debates on Confederation, Thomas D’Arcy McGee stood up in the ...