The AFBF convention was designed to showcase the spirit of dedication and innovation across agriculture while giving its ...
Meanwhile, work has begun on a nearly $4 million restoration of the 85-year-old Cenotaph, a memorial to the 189 Texians and Tejanos who took part in the 1836 siege and battle. The Alamo Trust ...
If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan is hosting an exhibition on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, revisiting its 850-year history using augmented reality.
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. The book, titled “Forget the ...
Work is ramping up on large-scale restoration efforts at the Alamo, including a massive undertaking to protect the site’s iconic mission church and a project to partially disassemble and restore the ...
The year 1836 has always held a special meaning in Houston, as it was the year of the city's founding. The number took added meaning Wednesday afternoon, as it officially became the name of the ...
Built from limestone and bravery, the Alamo stands as the most famous symbol of Texas independence. Builders first made it in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero. In 1836, about 200 Texas fighters ...
William Barret Travis wrote to “The people of Texas and all Americans in the world,” on February 24, 1836, the second day of the siege at the Alamo, that he would “die like a soldier who never forgets ...
Some eventually committed arson and murder in retaliation for their brutal treatment. In 1836 the Secretary of War ordered the removal of the Creeks as a military necessity. By 1837, approximately ...
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