Everyone has seen the bumper stickers: "Secede Texas." It's an age-old jest in the Lone Star State. But some people take it seriously. Really seriously. Joe Fallin is one of them. An independent Texas ...

SAN ANTONIO — A live re-enactment began at 6 a.m. in front of the Texas shrine. It was on this date in 1836 when Mexican General Santa Anna ordered a pre-dawn attack on the mission, killing nearly 200 ...

San Jacinto was a significant battle and a great victory - but it would not have been possible without the sacrifice seven weeks earlier of a small band of men holed up in a crumbling old mission ...

On this day 175 years ago, Texian forces were savoring a victory in the first major campaign of the Texas Revolution. Lovers of history will gather this weekend to observe the Battle of Béxar, which ...

THE BLOOD OF HEROES: THE 13-DAY STRUGGLE FOR THE ALAMO AND THE SACRIFICE THAT FORGED A NATION By James Donovan Little, Brown and Co., $29.95 500 pages The bravery of the men who died defending the ...

Texas celebrates her 175th birthday this year. While it’s not garnering the same attention the sesqui-centennial attracted, the state’s prominence couldn’t be more visible in the economic turndown.

For many San Antonians, it's a forgotten battle of the Texas Revolution. But historians say the Battle of Concepción resulted in the first Texian fatality in the war, and emboldened the rebel forces ...