The famed Alamo battle was fought more than 200 miles away from where President Donald Trump is expected to give a defiant speech on Tuesday, but historians say that by speaking in Alamo, Texas, Trump ...

We rightly recognize slavery as a grievous wrong, but to declare the Alamo battle was fought because of slavery is to flatten ...

At least 189 people gave their life defending the Alamo. “This is a story of people that made the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed in," said Alamo Curator Ernesto Rodriguez. It’s Ernesto's ...

On March 2nd, 1836, settlers in Mexican Texas adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, creating the Republic of Texas. They just had to win the war they had been fighting to make the declaration ...

Before the battle at the Alamo, a band of Texians seized control of San Antonio from the Mexican forces sent to hold what was ...

As a former student of Texas public schools, much of what I remember from Texas history class boils down to this: General López de Santa Anna, of Mexico, was evil incarnate — my old friends and I ...

SAN ANTONIO — In recognition of Black History Month, the Alamo hosted a virtual event Tuesday discussing the history of slavery in the era of the Texas Revolution. The Alamo is widely considered a ...

The president and CEO of the Alamo Trust, Kate Rogers, has resigned under pressure from Texas’ lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who took issue with views she expressed in a 2023 doctoral dissertation ...

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 cut.

SAN ANTONIO — The Alamo is making history, once again - holding its first virtual Fourth of July celebration this weekend. The coronavirus pandemic caused the Alamo to shut its doors to visitors ...

After some 250 years, the walls of the Alamo finally are getting a good scrubbing - one tedious, back-aching toothbrush stroke at a time. Ron Lewis, seeing the Alamo for the first time, was amazed to ...