This story about onetime pop-rock superstar Phil Collins' alleged obsession with the Alamo seems to have a lot of skeptics. One commenter to our wire story says dubiously, "This is a very wierd story. I mean, does Phil just sit...
Texans, God love us all, remain sturdily (some might say mulishly) optimistic in the face of hard economic times. A statewide public opinion survey shows Texans may be feeling less downtrodden than the nation as a whole: More than half...
The ambitious $60 million in planned improvements to the Alamo comes as good news, not only to preservationists, but to thoughtful historians considering its symbolic context in modern culture. I was particularly struck by this quote in today's story: "The...