A New History of Old Texas

On June 13, 1691, Spanish explorers gave a name to the spring-fed river whose banks they crossed on that feast day of St... Read more

The Battle of the Alamo as you've never heard it before.www.BrandonSeale.com

Texas in 1800 was defined by its isolation, which Tejanos felt all the more acutely because of Spain’s restrictive trade... Read more

Between 1718 and 1731, San Antonio would grow to almost 300 "vecinos," thanks to the establishment of four new missions ... Read more

On April 6, 1813, Texas declared its independence, having momentarily rid the province of all traces of Spanish control.... Read more

The past lives in San Antonio.www.BrandonSeale.com

The Apaches just used horses...the Comanches were horseMEN. Had they lived in a different time and place, you might have... Read more

In 7th grade Texas history textbooks, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara figures only peripherally in the events covered in this... Read more

In February of 1813, Spanish Royalist forces under Texas Governor Manuel Salcedo stormed the Republicans besieged in Gol... Read more

When sixteen Canary Island families arrived in San Antonio in March of 1731, they quickly made an impression on the smal... Read more

During the fifty year period beginning in 1718 and ending around 1768, Spanish friars and Native American converts moved... Read more

After capturing Father Miguel Hidalgo, Texas Royalist Governor Manuel Salcedo returned to San Antonio in a less-than-mag... Read more

In 1845, San Antonians voted to join the United States and plunged themselves right back into war with their old foes in... Read more

Before Father Miguel Hidalgo was captured by Royalist forces in March of 1811, he commissioned a modest but vocal suppor... Read more

The first decade of the 19th century brought more tumult to San Antonio than she had experienced in the entire century b... Read more

In late 1835, Centralists and Federalists clashed in San Antonio over the course of a two-month long siege that culminat... Read more

After thirty years of constant harassment by the Apaches, San Antonians did what few other frontier peoples ever could: ... Read more

When San Antonio became the capital of Texas in 1772, it was a recognition in law of something that was already true in ... Read more

On September 16, 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla unleashed a cry of protest against centuries of Spanish exploita... Read more

The most fascinating account of Jacksonian America doesn't come from a French aristocrat who spent barely nine months on... Read more