There is a word that hangs over Estella Zermeño’s shoulder like a sack of bricks, and to explain to you why, she must sit down on a green leather couch in her home and take them out one by one.

One of the most notorious incidents of the Texas Revolution was the Goliad “Massacre,” the Santa Anna-ordered execution of the Texian prisoners captured after the Battle of Coleto Creek. While ...

ORG XMIT: *S19281FF8* 1/08/08---Mission Espiritu Santo at Goliad State Park in Goliad, Texas. Tuesday January 08, 2008. ERICH SCHLEGEL / 126665 Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning ...

At the height of a hill covered in lush, green grass, the Texians were surrounded. As history tells the story, the men were forced to surrender under the leadership of Col. James Walker Fannin Jr. to ...

GOLIAD – Goliad is the official place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, according to a declaration by the Texas Senate in 1999. The holiday, which commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French ...

The Goliad massacre occurred on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, three weeks to the day after the fall of the Alamo. About three weeks later Sam Houston led Texian forces to a surprise victory at the ...

A version of this story ran in the May 2013 issue. For 28 years, Texans have been coming to Goliad, in March, to die. Dressed in authentic period uniforms, historical reenactors do battle outside the ...

The month of March 1836 began with high hopes and idealism for Texas forces trying to free themselves from Mexico, but a string of military disasters pushed the Texas army to the edge of collapse. In ...

In her exquisite book “Unsung Texas Heroes” published in 1985, Texas historian Ann Ruff reports on the heroics of Francisca Alvarez (or Fancita Alavèz) during the Texas Revolution against Mexico in ...

Amid debate about Confederate flags, statues and like symbols, artist Christine Gilbert of Austin drew our attention by spreading the word about a claim on a state web page that the Texas Capitol ...