The first night in the dark, cold barrack of the Alamo was the hardest. Adina De Zavala had no bed or even a chair to sleep on. Rats skittered nearby. The electricity and telephone lines had been cut.

Plans for an ambitious makeover of the Alamo historic site have stalled for years amid political squabbling. (Eric Gay/Associated Press) For a great number of Texans, the Alamo is the holiest of ...

SAN ANTONIO — In recognition of Black History Month, the Alamo hosted a virtual event Tuesday discussing the history of slavery in the era of the Texas Revolution. The Alamo is widely considered a ...

The president and CEO of the Alamo Trust, Kate Rogers, has resigned under pressure from Texas’ lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who took issue with views she expressed in a 2023 doctoral dissertation ...

SAN ANTONIO — The Alamo is set to host a new event that sheds light on the untold stories of women who survived and helped shape Texas history. This event, which has been months in the making, aims to ...

Before the battle at the Alamo, a band of Texians seized control of San Antonio from the Mexican forces sent to hold what was ...

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 ...

On March 2nd, 1836, settlers in Mexican Texas adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, creating the Republic of Texas. They just had to win the war they had been fighting to make the declaration ...

Everyone remembers the Alamo, the Franciscan mission in San Antonio where a Mexican army of somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 troops overwhelmed roughly 200 volunteers fighting for Texas independence ...

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her publicly, suggesting that her views aren't compatible with the history of the Texas ...

For a great number of Texans, the Alamo is the holiest of holies, a place, a totem, a shrine that physically embodies the values — courage, independence, liberty — they hold precious. That veneration ...