The written history on those ranches dates to the 19th century, but a large spread that was listed recently in South Texas by Republic Ranches, the Double Q Ranch in Goliad County, can claim not ...

The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th anniversary on Thursday.

The Navy ship is part of the NATO mission monitoring Russian ships. The frigate 'Álvaro de Bazán', integrated into NATO's ...

The limestone buildings shimmer in the blazing Texas sun. A Franciscan friar emerges from the parish office behind the church ...

Kathleen Deagan, a professor of archaeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a National Geographic Society grantee, says a cemetery and the remains of a Spanish mission dating back ...

Apolinaria Lorenzana provides a window to the Spanish Mission System while Mariano Vallejo personifies the era of the Californio rancheros an elite class who thrive after Mexico gains its ...

Santa Clara University, the oldest college in California, is also the only college in the state to be the successor of a Spanish mission. The history of both institutions is intimately bound up with ...

The San Antonio Missions play a key role in telling the story of Spanish colonialists and Native Americans of the Southwest. The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial ...