After trying for 45 years to find the site of the deadliest military conflict in Texas history, Kay Hindes is calling the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second-largest city in the Lone Star state, San Antonio is located on the southern edge of the mountainous Texas Hill Country. Its streets follow old Spanish trails and 19th-century wagon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Alamo is unquestionably the most famous of the five Spanish missions that make up the San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site. Though the Alamo fell in battle against the Mexicans in 1836 ...

Long before Texian and Tejano revolutionaries made it famous, the site now known throughout the world as the Alamo was Misión San Antonio de Valero. Its mission was to convert Indians to ...