There are many books depicting the history of the Texas Revolution for Independence from Mexico. None, however, may be as important as “Newell’s History of the Texas Revolution — Come and Take It.” It ...

SAN ANTONIO – Way before the Battle of the Alamo or Battle of San Jacinto, Tejanos were actively trying to gain their independence and become a free republic. By 1778, San Antonio had become the ...

This week on The Bookmark,James Aalan Bernsen, author of The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811. We’ll be talking about this overlooked first war ...

The month of March 1836 began with high hopes and idealism for Texas forces trying to free themselves from Mexico, but a string of military disasters pushed the Texas army to the edge of collapse. In ...

On this day 178 years ago, a restive, rag-tag army of Texans under Gen. Sam Houston set up camp on the coastal prairie between Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River, engaged in a few exploratory ...

Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. Texas wasn’t ...

On April 21, 2014, Texans celebrated the 178th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, which secured independence from Mexico. Such dramatic events that played out within a relatively short period ...

The shot heard around the world, well, at least in Texas, was fired in Gonzales, a 7,000-person town about 70 miles southeast of Austin. It was here that the now-famous phrase “Come and Take It” was ...

A: The Texanist, admittedly not a regular theatergoer, had the pleasure of attending a performance of Hamilton that was put on by the touring cast last summer in Austin and found it to be an ...

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 ...

The farmwoman was mad - mad as a wet hen, my Aunt Eunice would have said. Here’s this high-falutin’ general telling her he doesn’t have time to worry about the damage he and his army have done to her ...

Texas is a state that prides itself on its particular spirit in independence. Largely, it stems from the famous Texas Revolution, which liberated the state from the rule of Mexico in the 1800s. Lots ...