Alamo officials today confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s location was excavated for construction of the Mission San Antonio de Valero’s third and final site ...

Hundreds of civilians are believed to have died while fleeing east to Louisiana during the Texas Revolution 189 years ago.

Usually we remember the sites of victories -- not defeats. What makes the fall of the Alamo so memorable? Almost as soon as the smoke cleared, the Alamo and its defenders transcended mere history ...

Juana's husband, Dr. Horace Alsbury, had left the Alamo on February 23, the day the Mexicans arrived, probably seeking a safe place for his family. The couple reunited after the fall of the Alamo ...

Nearly 200 years after the historic battle, Texans are still fighting over how exactly to remember the Alamo. Officials in ...

trying to find a way into the Alamo. What bothered Joe was that he didn’t think Travis believed it himself. He was usually a quick and furious letter writer, but now he was wrestling with every ...

By the early 1900s, the Alamo was about to fall once again, this time to the ravages of neglect and the drive for urban ...

Read full article: Windy and very dry tomorrow, biggest fire risk of the week Gregory Casares Herrera Jr., 34, died from blunt force injuries. Spring is in the air, and it's time to get ready for ...

I know a lot of people are not into history. I suppose it’s because history is so irrelevant to today, or so they think. To ...

In 2021, authors Bryan Burrough, Jason Stanford, and Chris Tomlinson released “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth,” exploring how racism and the desire to practice slavery played ...