A New History of Old Texas
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A City Divided
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
San Antonio in 1860 didn't look like the rest of Texas, or for that matter, the rest of the United States. The U.S. Civil War nearly tore the tow...
San Antonio on the Brink
24 Apr 2018
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In 1845, San Antonians voted to join the United States and plunged themselves right back into war with their old foes in the Valley of Mexico. The war...
The Fall of San Antonio
17 Apr 2018
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In the first years of the Republic of Texas, San Antonio was assaulted by Mexican Centralist forces almost every year until finally falling - twice - ...
Texian San Antonio
10 Apr 2018
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The new Texian government broke off San Antonio's special relationship with the Comanche empire, provoking renewed hostilities from the horsemen ...
The Battle of the Alamo
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of the Alamo as you've never heard it before.Selected BibliographyAlessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978...
The Siege of Béxar
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In late 1835, Centralists and Federalists clashed in San Antonio over the course of a two-month long siege that culminated in five days of brutal hous...
Santa Anna
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1833, Santa Anna was elected President of Mexico. In 1834, he declared himself dictator. Mexico rose in revolt and San Antonians rode to Coahuila i...
Illegal Immigration
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1830, Mexican Centralists outlawed future Anglo immigration to Texas and walked back the freedoms recognized by the 1824 Federalist Constitution. S...
Sons of Libertad
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The most fascinating account of Jacksonian America doesn't come from a French aristocrat who spent barely nine months on the continent. It comes ...
Mexican San Antonio
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1821, Mexico finally won its independence from Spain. In 1824, the new nation promulgated one of the most enlightened constitutions in the world, e...
The Battle of Medina
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Spanish Royalists responded to San Antonio's 1813 Declaration of Independence by massacring the Republican Army of the North and by implementing ...
The First Republic of Texas
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1813, San Antonians declared their independence from Spain. The 1813 Texas Declaration of Independence and the 1813 Texas Constitution show San Ant...
San Antonio Revolts
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The first decade of the 19th century brought more tumult to San Antonio than she had experienced in the entire century before. The missions were shutt...
San Antonio Strong
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1790, San Antonians finally won peace along the frontier from their old foes: the Apaches and the Comanches...though at a terrible cost.Selected Bi...
The Capital of Texas
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When San Antonio became the capital of Texas in 1772, it was a recognition in law of something that was already true in fact. The new concentration of...
The Comanches
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Apaches just used horses...the Comanches were horseMEN. Had they lived in a different time and place, you might have sworn that they were the insp...
The Apaches
07 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After thirty years of constant harassment by the Apaches, San Antonians did what few other frontier peoples ever could: beat them and force them to se...
Building San Antonio
05 Jan 2018
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During the fifty year period beginning in 1718 and ending around 1768, Spanish friars and Native American converts moved nearly 1 million metric tons ...
The Canary Islanders
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When sixteen Canary Island families arrived in San Antonio in March of 1731, they quickly made an impression on the small town. Their first fourteen y...
Missionary San Antonio
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1718 and 1731, San Antonio would grow to almost 300 "vecinos," thanks to the establishment of four new missions and the "entrep...
Founding San Antonio
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On June 13, 1691, Spanish explorers gave a name to the spring-fed river whose banks they crossed on that feast day of St. Anthony de Padua - San Anton...