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'Texas Heroes Act' seeks to limit role of slavery in battle for independence at the Alamo FacebookTwitterEmail State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, is the primary author of a bill that seeks to emphasize the grievances listed in the Texas Declaration of Independence at the Alamo, when explaining the causes of the 1835-1836 war for independence from Mexico.Marvin Pfeiffer /Staff photographer Slavery was an underlying cause of the state’s battle for independence, according to scholars, but a bill before the Texas House seeks to downplay its role in Alamo history. Legislation from Sta...

A clash over remembering the Alamo Richard Webner, The Washington Post May 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, a lineage society for descendants of the state's founders, gather beneath the Cenotaph monument on Alamo Plaza in March 2020.Photo by Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts...

A clash over remembering the Alamo Updated: May 9 Published May 9 Share on Facebook Print article SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts. And the surrounding plaza is a tourist circus, packed with novelty shops and a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum. But Texans are deeply divided over how, exactly, to remember the Alamo. A $450 million plan to ren...

Some heroes of the Texas Revolution were enslavers, a neglected piece of history that has helped stall a badly needed overhaul of the revered battle site.

To keyboards! Another media attack has been launched at the Alamo! Hardly a fortnight goes by now between media-left cartoon treatments of the 1836 battle that serves as the crescendo of the Texas Revolution, the brief war that made modern Texas and changed North America. Politico’s latest is no exception, though at least this piece omits the customary John Wayne movie references. Retired journalist Rick Casey’s recent attempt at Texas history, however, serves up the 1960 film for mockery, and by extension, for mocking interest in the battle and its most famous figures. The book, like man...