Though he had met with several defeats and reverses in his life, Gov. Allred’s persistence guided Texas in a difficult time ...

The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries ... Six weeks later on April 21, led by Sam Houston’s army and shouting ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

The Runaway Scrape, an arduous evacuation of a panicked sea of humanity fleeing eastward during Santa Anna’s 1836 Texas campaign ... died in the battle. Gen. Sam Houston, Texian commander ...