March 2023

Austin College’s 2023 Will Mann Richardson Lecture will feature Dr. Jerry Muller on Thursday, March 30, 11 a.m.

Grayson County grand jurors this week returned indictments on a number of felony drug and other charges. The indictments are formal charges and are not considered evidence of guilt.

The career of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna brought him to the height of power in Mexican politics, serving as president on eleven different occasions though he preferred to be leading his armies in the field. His career had also brought him nearly into political oblivion. In spite of the many problems Mexico faced and the disaster of his surrender to Gen. Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and his roles in many coups against elected governments, Mexico still reluctantly turned to him in times of crisis by the late 1830s and into the 1840s.