Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed wants people to remember the Alamo — for its complexity — and celebrate Juneteenth as “the beginning of another kind of struggle.” ...

Texans (or “Texians,” according to some sources) began fighting for independence from Mexico in 1835. By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of ...

San Antonio attraction to "remember." Apparently Times readers don't think often about the Shrine of Texas Liberty as we do.

On March 6, 1836, nearly 1800 soldiers in the Mexican army of Antonio López de Santa Anna brutally attacked the Alamo after a 13-day siege. Fewer than 200 men stood inside to defend the fort ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would ...

New Yorkers are searing mad over an absurd bid by Texas to rename the New York strip steak. The beef between the two states was heating up Monday, with New York meat purveyors getting rubbed the ...

Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Author of the award-winning Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (University ...