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 ...

The Texans were fighting to keep slavery, not for freedom from an oppressive government. Not everyone at the Alamo died. The enslaved workers were spared and are largely the reason we know what ...

James Bowie, better known as Jim, had made a mark throughout the American South before the battle for the Alamo. He was wildly successful in both land speculation and the slave trade. He made a ...