Texas Revolution

America’s Fourth Largest City Is Named After Him. Who Was Sam Houston?

Gen. Sam Houston rested under an oak tree on the coastal plains of Texas near Buffalo Bayou, his left ankle shattered by a copper ball. He and his Texian army ...

October 17, 2022BY Debi DeSilver
Wokeness at the Alamo: Fact Confronts Fantasy

Commentary History isn't clean. We like its lines well defined and its stories in 20-second soundbites, but history ...

October 6, 2021BY Jerry Patterson, Denton Florian and Alan C Huffines
The Texas Revolution and America’s Manifest Destiny

In the late afternoon of April 21, 1836, Gen. Sam Houston sat on his stallion Saracen as his ...

April 20, 2020BY Alan Wakim

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