The first night in the dark, cold barrack of the Alamo was the hardest. Adina De Zavala had no bed or even a chair to sleep on. Rats skittered nearby. The electricity and telephone lines had been ...

Remember the Alamo: Native American group says up to 1,300 buried at historic Texas shrine Long before the 1836 battle that has become a touchstone for Texas history, the Alamo and its grounds ...

There’s still so much more to unravel about early Texas, especially for Native Americans, whose histories they rarely delve into: The story of the Alamo before 1800—it was built in 1718 by ...

Now, a new battle over the Alamo is brewing, as Native Americans and descendants of some of San Antonio’s founding families seek protections for the human remains while Texas officials press ...

The buildup to the battle. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821. Texas was a contested territory, and by 1836 the Alamo had become a military outpost as Texans fought to win independence ...

Long before the Alamo made heroes of Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett and spawned the well-known battle cry, José Antonio Navarro and a group of Tejanos — Mexicans of Texas who had lived there for ...

The Alamo is, after all, dedicated to the American fear of the Mexican body, of Mexican invasion, of Mexican agency that firmly and directly contested agendas of white supremacy in early 19th ...

Remembering the Alamo John Lee Hancock’s epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light ...

The Alamo, once the roofless ruins of a battle compound when the Legislature assigned custodianship to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in 1905, is now undergoing a $550 million expansion ...

Texas History The Alamo Should Never Have Happened ... Some minor relief did arrive before dawn on March 1, when a company of 32 horsemen from Gonzales evaded the Mexican sentries and slipped into ...

Of course Texas schoolchildren should be taught that Alamo defenders were ‘Heroic’! I fully expect the State Board of Education to agree. Contact your SBOE Member to complain. ⁦ @TXSBOE ...