Robert “Dusty” Gonzales Most depictions of the Alamo battle — drawings ... and that the first bird’s-eye (aerial-style) map made of San Antonio wasn’t published until 1873.

History books have traditionally painted the battle at the Alamo as a two-sided fight for Texas between the United States and Mexico. Yet inside the Alamo, an old mission in San Antonio ...

My sister and I grew up in San Antonio, but she may have been out sick the day her seventh-grade Texas history class covered the Battle of the Alamo. Like many locals, she bought into the ...

Today the Alamo is again the setting for a battle over liberty. Last week San Antonio’s City Council voted 9-2 to authorize the use of eminent domain to take a bar owner’s property because the ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Remember the Alamo? A new Texas battle is brewing over how best to do so. Land Commissioner George P. Bush is overseeing a 7-year revamp of the shrine where 189 Texas ...

Located right across the street from the Riverwalk, the Alamo remains a symbol of San Antonio and Texas as a whole. Though ...