On March 2nd, 1836, settlers in Mexican Texas signed the Texas Declaration of Independence; ... here are ten things you may not have known about the Alamo, Texas, and its war for independence. 1.

Below is a look at how the Project 1836 advisory committee’s pamphlet discusses four areas of Texas’ history — early settlements, the oil and cotton industries, the Alamo and slavery — and ...

“Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend — and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture,” author Rosemary Kent famously said of the Alamo. But the 1836 Project ...

"Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend — and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture," author Rosemary Kent famously said of the Alamo. But the 1836 Project pamphlet ...

Two academics published an opinion article in Texas Monthly titled “What the 1836 Project Leaves Out.” But they’re the ones who left out facts inconvenient to their narrative.

“Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend — and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture,” author Rosemary Kent famously said of the Alamo. But the 1836 Project ...

Rick Range, an Alamo researcher from North Texas, was mindful at the predawn ceremony that the letter was at the site for the first time since it was written in 1836. "It's pretty amazing," he said.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KXAN) — The famous “Alamo letter,” officially called the Travis Letter, will be on display at the Alamo for only the second time since the original battle in 1836.

It will support the Alamo plan, which aims to preserve the site’s two surviving mission-era structures, recapture the geographic footprint of the 1700s Mission San Antonio de Valero and 1836 ...

The Texas A&M University team does preservation work on the bronze cannon. The weapon was used during the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Alamo Trust, Inc.

Founded in 1718 by Spanish missionaries and originally called Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo became the site of a pivotal battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836.

“Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend — and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture,” author Rosemary Kent famously said of the Alamo. But the 1836 Project ...