Category: 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 of 783 men had just defeated a Mexican army detachment of about 1,500 soldiers under the command of Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna, president…


Wokeness at the Alamo: Fact Confronts Fantasy

Commentary History is not clean. We like its lines well defined and its stories in 20-second soundbites, but history is never that way. It’s messy. When it doesn’t fit the woke agenda, the prevaricators and provocateurs take license to just make things up, often swaying great numbers of people. Such is the case with the…