Immortalized on everything from bumper stickers to refrigerator magnets, the shape of Texas is one of those things that, once seen, is hard to forget. Sculpted by the Gulf, three rivers and federal ...

Tuesday marks the 175 th anniversary of California being admitted as a state. Sept. 9, 1850, is the day that then-President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, which made California the ...