Santa Anna News

When I was 10, we moved to San Antonio, Texas, for less than a year. During that time, my fifth-grade class took a school field trip to see the Alamo.

PHOTO BY PATRICIA SHERIDAN/PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE - One of the longest longhorns ever recorded is on display in the Buckhorn Saloon in San Antonio.

One hundred sixty four years ago, on this date in the year 1848, in the conquered and occupied Federal District of Mexico, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by representatives of US President James Polk and interim Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, ending the war between the two countries.

Last week's biannual quiz on Texas' rich history enticed many readers to hit the books.

For most of the past five years, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has journeyed far and wide across Mexico, railing against the corruption, fraud and injustice he says cost him the presidency.

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One of the most pivotal events in Texas history occurred between February 23rd and March 6, 1836.

Mexico's General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna of the famous battle for the Alamo in today's San Antonio, Texas, lived in exile on Staten Island for nearly a decade after the war of Texas independance.