After Saint Anthony turned dizzy from his spinning, the Alamo piñata designed to look like Texas' flag was brought out ... it as people continue to grapple over its meaning.

The Alamo is the state's premiere tourist attraction. In any normal year, more than two and a half million visitors come from all over ... for Texas independence. "Under the flag of independence ...

In autumn 1835, simmering political tensions in Texas came to a boil. A series of bloody skirmishes over a short span of ... a bloody Mexican attack on the Alamo in San Antonio would leave ...