For 145 years before that, Texas belonged to Spain. What an afternoon’s tour of the four San Antonio missions reveals is the hidden truth of all history, which is simply this: The past is with ...

While maps might have indicated that New Spain included much of what is now Texas, the Spanish, in fact, rarely controlled ...

It's a highly praised site known for its history, culture and nature. The Missions was recently ranked high on a list that named the best 12 parks and sites in Texas. Southern Living released its ...

The written history on those ranches dates to the ... can claim not only ties to one of the many 17th- and 18th-century Spanish missions in Texas, but the actual remains of the mission itself.

and Mission San Antonio de Valero. An American trader and filibuster, Philip Nolan, enters northeast Texas to hunt for wild horses. Spanish troops from Nacogdoches capture Nolan and his party.

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

It took just 90 minutes for history to be made on March 6, 1836, when the Mexican army of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ...