Nearly 190 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo. Overall, it was ...

Textbooks of the time also neglected to mention that many Alamo heroes, foremost among them Travis and Bowie, had been slaveholders, even slave traders, or that one account of the 12-day Alamo siege, ...

In 1836, a small band of Texan rebels made their last stand inside a mission fortress against the might of the Mexican army. The Battle of the Alamo became one of the most defining moments in American ...