Time to take down my National Hug a Newsperson Day (April 4, it didn’t work), just like my flag for National Peanut Butter ...

U.S. history has always been a fascinating subject for me. While some classmates in my junior high and high school yawned ...

“Remember the Alamo!” is a cry echoed throughout American history. In 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna attacked the former mission as conflict ensued during the Texas ...

The climax of The Alamo is no exception, as the final clash between the garrison and the Mexican army takes place in broad daylight, and each character has a dramatic death which sees them going ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer led such a process in 2021 ... The group has argued the building is the only downtown ...

We also journey to nearby Sonoma Valley for dinner at Valley Restaurant and Bottle Shop on Sonoma Plaza, which confirms my ...

He was a great-great-nephew of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican politician-general whose troops crushed the defenders of the Alamo in 1836 ... of the Women's Army Corps — can still ...

And I’ve long thought that most popular studies of Texas history stress the differences between Texas and larger patterns of American, Mexican ... the battles at the Alamo and San Jacinto ...

Nonetheless, it was clear that even the bolstered Alamo defenders had a slim chance of holding out against the much larger Mexican army detachment. On February 23, a Mexican force that numbered at ...

Texans and history enthusiasts are invited to attend the official San Jacinto Day Ceremony marking the 189th anniversary of ...

Representatives of the Alamo Letter Society will gather alongside Rusk County ... It was a call to action as he faced Generalissimo Santa Anna and the Mexican Army in late February-early March of 1836 ...